Our 2011 Samhain alter for family and friends who have passed.
Canon G11 con los muertos.
Category Archives: The Homestead
Images taken of my living space.
Bamboo and sky
I took this shot of bamboo leaves against the sky out in our backyard. I liked the colors of the original image, but I got to tweaking it in Silver Efex Pro (version 1) and ended up liking the monochrome simplicity of this faux “tintype” rendering better.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm.
Canon T2i out in the ol’ yard.
New boots with a chaser
My wife scored a pair of NOS, handmade in the USA, Chisholm boots off eBay for a song. They were delivered this afternoon and when she put them on she kept them on. Keepers! For fun, I took some shots of the boots with my iPhone–again using the Hipstamatic app.
iPhone phoning it in.
Blue globes in Fall
It’s my Friday off so I spent a few minutes this morning with my iPhone 4 figuring out how to get the Hipstamatic app to record in high resolution. The low rez shots are cool for quicky snap sharing, but for archiving and blog posts 1936×1936 is the way to go. I posted the first blue globe image a couple of weeks ago–it was shot in low rez using a wacky Hipstamatic “film” selection. This one was shot in high rez with the app set to a much tamer “film” selection.
BTW, the blue globes are solar powered night lights for the patio.
iPhone phoning home.
Orton abstract
Today while I was downloading IOS5 for my iPhone (took forever!), I went out in the yard to practice the Orton “movement technique.” I learned about the technique–carefully and deliberately moving the camera while the shutter is open–after listening to Michael Orton on the current Photography.ca blog podcast. This image of the underside of our rosebushes is a first attempt and was the 14th shot (out of 20) I took during the shoot. It’s definitely tricky to get a good image.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 38mm. 4 seconds at f/5.6, ISO 200.
Canon T2i moving and shaking.