This was taken last month sometime. One of those shots I vaguely remember taking. I needed some filler for this new theme I am using and figured the B&W Conversion would work good. Anyway, here you go:
Shooting back at me
Here’s my boy. Makes papa proud. (thanks to Grandpa Schwandt for taking the pics while I coached)
Paxton Running the Ball with Intensity
Summer is almost gone, and I have succesfully neglected this blog for another warm season. Which brings me to my favorite time of the year for sports, only this year it’s extra special. College Football started, NFL starts tomorrow (with my Fantasy Draft just two days old), Baseball playoff races have begun..
And this year, I am a coach. Yes I volunteered to coach a bunch of 4-6 year olds for flag football. The NorthWest Football League Vikings. My oldest has started not only kindergarten, but his athletic career. The only bad thing about it (if you could call it that) is I can’t shoot photographs of him myself. I am relying on either my lovely bride, or my dad to shoot. So hopefully they can continue to get some good shots.
Speaking of good shots. I went last Sunday to practice some sports shooting, (Little League Tackle football) also the Vikings. Here are one of the better shots:
Young Boy runs the ball
I was a huge fan of PictureSync while I was using iPhoto. Recently though, I have purchased a digital SLR, started shooting in RAW, and begun using Aperture solely as my Digital Photography software. (see original post I made)
For awhile I was exporting my Aperture projects into iPhoto so I could upload via Picture sync since the upload features for Gallery2 are less than useable for me.
I grew weary of that really quick, and dug up a plugin that allows you to manage all your uploads from Aperture to Gallery2.
Ubermind to the rescue. First, it lets you create folders in your gallery:
As you can see it is very easy to create new albums.
Next, it will allow for easy description, short name, and comments for your album
Last but not least, it lets you format your photos however you see fit:
Another option (seen in the first screen capture) you can have your images renamed to whatever you like as well.
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The boys were pulling over rocks to see what was under them. I decided to snap some pictures since I haven’t used the camera in at least 36 hours. Click Me
I found this site awhile back and just recently revisited it. Please, don’t go here unless you have some time to burn.
It’s a very cool look into our past. From the mid 1850’s – 1950’s.
Enjoy!
Well I finally got my hands on my first DSLR camera last friday. My friend Tony got the itch from me I think since I was yapping about it so long, and he ended up getting a Canon 40D. I was fortunate enough to have his old one passed down to me.
He just sold me the body so I was without a lens. If you have ever looked at how expensive lenses are you will know they are not cheap. My thoughts are why spend a few hundred bucks and be unhappy with your image quality? My mom has the 17-55 IS, and that is an excellent lens. The bad thing? It’s about a grand. That’s not quite in the budget at this point. So I looked around and stumbled on the 70-200 f4 L series. One of Canon’s least pricey L series. Still, at $600 or so, it’s not in the budget. The wife wants me to redo the basement so she has a workspace for her job (she’s a realtor, and a damn fine one at that). So she made a deal with me that when I get her office done, I would be able to buy what I want.
So, long story short, I really wanted to be able to play with my new toy. So I kept seeing people rant and rave about the Canon 50mm f/1.8 Prime lens. I have zero experience with primes, and to be honest, I had no clue what they were about a month ago (prime lenses are fixed focal length, so there is no zoom). The good? It was $80, super sharp, excellent in low light, and…. did I mention it was cheap!
I hope to learn how to shoot a bit better since I have my OWN camera. I have a few niggles with the XT. I have a hard time proofing my shots to make sure they are in focus. So I need to zoom in on the previews to be sure. It’s also very light. Even more so than the XTi that my mom lets me play with when I am in Tennessee. Other than that I am very happy to have it. If you head over to my gallery
you can see some of my photo’s from this weekend. The wife had to work Saturday, so I took the boys to the Franklin Park Conservatory. Sunday we all got to hang out so we went downtown to the Santa Maria replica Columbus has on the river. Here is a sample:
Paxton’s “Maw-Maw” gave him a little gift around Christmas, because she had heard that Santa was looking at getting him a digital camera for being a good boy last year. He ended up with a Nikon CoolPix P1 in black. 8MP point and shoot with wifi and a lot more. Not to shabby for his first camera eh?
Well, that wouldn’t stop him from lusting after his Grandmother’s Canon XTi.. I guess he get’s it honest, because I want one as well!
Going through some pictures, and found one that I took in TN. We had just gotten rid of the snow from our blizzard, drove south, and woke up one morning to what else? More snow.
The mountains were very pretty and it was all gone by noon. I took a drive up the road and snapped this.
I was going to take out the power lines going through the middle of the shot, because even out here, there are lines everywhere. Oh well.
Click for larger view.
Was perusing around and found this site that has a ton of good information on Canon lenses.
Not as if I have a DSLR, and it will be a LONG time before I do, but I still like reading about them.
Now, I need to find a good site that has all the info on numbers, Terminology, and what they mean, and whats good.
To be continued…..