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James Hill > Spidey-2070 Day 6 of the extension tube experiments. This shot was made with the 70-200 and 56mm of extension tubes. I caught this guy moving out of the corner on my eye while I was shooting a bunch of small purple flowers which have popped up right beside the cabin. Apparently he's found a nice little nook in one of the logs to make his home, and that's just fine by me, as long as he continues to stay outside. I really wish I had a little more DOF on this shot so that his eyes were a bit more in focus but I was shooting hand held due to his location on the wall - there was just no way to set up the tripod for this shot. The shots I took at smaller apertures all have motion blur. This one has been rotated 90 deg. clockwise as he was facing up the wall. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
James Hill > Anyone care to guess what kind of weather we had today? 70-200 f/2.8 with a 36mm extension tube. Unless something better comes up, I'll have another one with some color to post tomorrow.
James Hill > John Dee Holeman putting out a fire. Thanks for all the comments on yesterday's daily, even though I really goofed on the guitar info. I should have realized that wasn't John's new one in his hands, after all, I have photographed that same guitar many times. With that out of the way - I didn't pick up the camera today, with all the editing I had to do, so here's my favorite shot from Saturday's concert/birthday celebration, with a little touch of picnik thrown in for fun. The original can be seen in the newly posted gallery.I don't know if the stage lighting changed (dimmed) since my last shoot here on New Years, but for some reason the auto-focus was having a really hard time locking onto anything this time. I resorted to manual focus early on and paid the price dearly, with the largest percentage of out of focus shots I've ever experienced. I have a renewed respect for anyone who can shoot at f/2 in a very dimly lit room and still manage to accurately focus the old fashioned way on moving subjects. I'm ready for some outdoor events with good old sunshine to work with. :)
James Hill > “What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.” -- Hal Boyle
James Hill > Young Whitetail Doe Watching Me Through The Cabin Window. You ever get that feeling someone's watching you while you work? I had that feeling last week and looked up to see this girl checking me out through the front window.
James Hill > Drive-by shooting. This is a shot I took through my windshield while sitting at a stoplight about a month ago. The backlit trees caught my eye due to them all being in various stages of springtime atire. I think that's a redbud up front in pink, and a magnolia in back in dark green. I'm not sure about the light green and the yellow but, I'm almost positive that's an oak dead center in the back and still bare. As usual with this type of high contrast scene, what I saw and what the camera captured were very different, so played with this in picnik tonight just to see what I could come up with. I sort of liked the look of this one, so it's my daily for tonight. Update: Wow, I really didn't expect so many to like this one. I did like the composition, which is why I kept it around, but the file out of the camera was just too high in contrast and way too busy, with some areas in sharp focus and others blurred by the water on the windshield. It was actually painful to look at. All the effects seen here were done in picnik, with the exception of a standard levels adjustment in Lightroom. The picnik filters I used were Focal Zoom, with a high setting and switched the Mode to Lighten; Orton-ish, again with high bloom and brightness settings; and Focal Soften with a lower setting than the default. That's it. I just played around with various sliders until I thought it looked interesting. Glad some others liked it as well. ;-)
James Hill > Water guns and garden hoses... After eating lunch with the family today, my nephew decided he wanted to go have a water gun fight. As usual with water gun fights, it didn't take long before the garden hose came into play. I've always wanted a waterproof camera but I don't have one, so I didn't get as many up close and personal shots as I would have liked. However, I did catch this moment when Kameron tried to lure me in by claiming he was only going to spray himself. Somehow the look on his face wasn't convincing. It's always good to know the reach of your zoom, but even better to know the reach of the hose. :)
James Hill > Camera-shy
James Hill > Buzzed Out Found deceased in my shoe. Shot hand held using a 60w bare bulb for light. SOOC except for sharpening and slight crop. Update: Since a few of you have mentioned it, yes I did happen to put my foot into my shoe before I realized he was in there. Lucky for me, he was already a goner. He came out snagged on the bottom of my sock and just a little disfigured, hence the broken antenna. I still have him and will likely try to get some better shots of the eye with more DOF as soon as I figure out how to light it without a glare.
Buzzed Out

Found deceased in my shoe.
Shot hand held using a 60w bare bulb for light.
SOOC except for sharpening and slight crop.

Update: Since a few of you have mentioned it, yes I did happen to put my foot into my shoe before I realized he was in there. Lucky for me, he was already a goner. He came out snagged on the bottom of my sock and just a little disfigured, hence the broken antenna. I still have him and will likely try to get some better shots of the eye with more DOF as soon as I figure out how to light it without a glare.
James Hill > Buzzed Out Found deceased in my shoe. Shot hand held using a 60w bare bulb for light. SOOC except for sharpening and slight crop. Update: Since a few of you have mentioned it, yes I did happen to put my foot into my shoe before I realized he was in there. Lucky for me, he was already a goner. He came out snagged on the bottom of my sock and just a little disfigured, hence the broken antenna. I still have him and will likely try to get some better shots of the eye with more DOF as soon as I figure out how to light it without a glare.
Buzzed Out

Found deceased in my shoe.
Shot hand held using a 60w bare bulb for light.
SOOC except for sharpening and slight crop.

Update: Since a few of you have mentioned it, yes I did happen to put my foot into my shoe before I realized he was in there. Lucky for me, he was already a goner. He came out snagged on the bottom of my sock and just a little disfigured, hence the broken antenna. I still have him and will likely try to get some better shots of the eye with more DOF as soon as I figure out how to light it without a glare.
See photo in original gallery.
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