Tuesday, November 20, 2007

More Photography Adventures/ San Saba Texas II

This is the second installment of Photographs from San Saba Texas.

These elephant ears are really something.



This shot was taken at f8 20mm 1/4000 sec

These flowers were shot with the macro setting


A different view of the gardens elephant ears again

Sunday, November 18, 2007

More Photography Adventures/ San Saba Texas

I haven't posted much here in a while and I felt that I should share what new material I have come up with. I had a very good conversation with a young future photographer. She works in a local Radio Shack, and the conversation came up while I was looking at some of their light weight tripods. She is taking photography in school and so I gave her some of my photographic philosophy and some tips on buying a 35mm SLR which is required for the course. Some of you are thinking why use 35mm, well I still use my 35mm SLR in concert with my EOS Rebel XT. Each has qualities that work for me and even though it costs a bit more to use my 35 it still has a place in my creative repertoire. I have been experimenting with electronic photo albums with some good results. I am of course not doing photography professionally at the time because my full time job is very time intensive. Well enough talk.

If you follow the link (which is also the above title) you will learn more about San Saba Texas, I will leave that up to you. I am simply going to share photographs from that walk about.

Waterwheel from the Millpond Park San Saba Texas
Waterwheel from the Millpond Park San Saba Texas
I have this habit of shooting similar images over and over again with differing composure's
The waterfall at Millpond Park


I'm going to break up the posting of all the photographs I took on this walk about because there are quite a few. About the equipment I used for these photographs; I was using the Canon EOS Rebel XT with an 18-55mm 3.5 max aperture lens. I used combinations of auto settings and manual settings depending upon the desired effect.