Friday, June 08, 2018

Elk Close to Home

It has been a while since I posted anything on this blog.  I guess I've been in a little bit of a dry spell.  But an opportunity arose on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, and I had to take it.  My Son and I were heading home from Walla Walla and as we rounded Dumas Station Winery this is what we saw.  












  
On the technical side of the photography, I made a lot of mistakes during this shoot.  So for any of you technical photographers, I did not, crop or edit anything on purpose.  
These were taken with my Canon EOS Rebel XT using a 70-300mm lens at 300mm, ISO 400 and 800, at average shutter speeds of 1/4000, aperture around 16.  The last two are guesses although I have the means to check that data later.  We were 75 yards away and I took the shots through an open window in my truck.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Wildlife Right at Home

I live across from an open field and hill.  Often there are animals that like to graze or hang out in that field which makes for some interesting and fun photographic opportunities.












I chose not to do too much editing on these photos.  
Some of my fellow photographers would say that I 
should adjust the colors and crop the images until 
they were not even close to what I started with.

The only editing I did was to watermark and rename 
the files in a batch process using Adobe
Photoshop Elements 6.0.

Sometimes I prefer to see the image like I
originally took it.

Images were taken with my Canon EOS Rebel XT, less 
commonly known as the 350D.

I set it to, Shutter Priority at 1/320 second 
which is an oddball setting but I chose it.  
The Aperture varied with each shot but was 
between F6.3 and F13, averaging mostly F8.0