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Little slow on the updates. I have had cabin fever real bad. this cold weather is killing, I am dying to get out and take some pictures. I'm sure my loving wife loves being dragged to the car show so I can get my photo fix.

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Chum

Finally got this image. It took me a while and lots of shots. I'm not completely happy but it will have to do. It needs a more interesting pose from my daughter.

This is a composite from about 8 or 9 images. A few long exposures to get the water to expose properly and then some quick ones at a high iso to get some people and sharks in crisper focus.

It was crowded so I had to take a bunch of images to photoshop out quite a few people. We bought a season pass to the Camden Aquarium so I'm sure I'll be trying to recreate this one many times.

Henry Avenue Bridge

Last week I had to take a trip out the The Henry Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia. The bridge is a very large stone and concrete bridge that crosses Henry Avenue Creek and Lincoln Drive in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Its a massive structure.

The company I work for had done a rehab project on this bridge a few years ago and we needed to get some post construction photos. So I brought along my camera and my new toy, a Tamron 10-24mm wide angle lens. I have never used a lens this wide before and, well, you can see from the photos why I'm going to like this thing.

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Little People Big World

The first in hopefully a lot of photos like this. I went to the hobby shop today and got some model train people.

The idea is to place these little guys into interesting and sometimes humorous locations. I'm going order others off the internet since the hobby shop had a pretty limited selection.

This was just a test shot to get a feel for the scale and field of the lenses I plan to use. The figures are really small, smaller than i expected. I also need a good way to get these little guys to stand, playdough filled in ok for now, however I don't think my wife would be to thrilled with me gluing them all over the house.

Bubbles

One of the first images I ever made. I took about 100 pictures trying to get this shot (bubbles are very hard to get in focus). I actually captured this with manual focus since the auto-focus on my old Rebel XS and 55-250 lens wasn't nearly fast enough. My daughter had a little bubble maker that made things a bit easier since the initial approach of her bowing them the old fashioned way wasn't working.

This image came out very dark from the camera and it took a lot of work and noise removal to get it bright and clean enough. Figures that the one that had bubbles in focus was dark, but hey that's what shooting in RAW is for right?

Take me out to the ballgame

Here's another favorite. I was at a baseball game at Cambell's field in Camden with my daughter for a baseball game. The scenery at this field is amazing. I have been wanting a good shot of the Ben Franklin at sunset for some time.

This shot was actually tough, it took a lot of post processing since i couldn't get the exposure of the sky and the field right. I ended up having to lighten the field up quite a bit which added tons of noise, thank god for the internet and noise removal techniques. If i ever go back, I'm sure to recreate this one, probably with more than one exposure.

Beer and Pretzels

This is my latest creation. I made this for an online photo challenge, "Things that go together". Not an original idea, recreated from something similar I saw once in a magazine. I was really just playing around with lighting, which I'm not very good at and is surprisingly very important.

I used two really hot halogen floor lamps from home depot so I probably didn't need to cook the pretzel ahead of time.

Its also the first time in a while I drank beer through a straw so I didn't get fingerprints all over the glass (The head on Miller lite dies off really quick and I needed to keep refilling).

Probably the tastiest image I will ever make.