Mid Summer's Night Dream

by dhill 7/22/2010 9:31:00 AM

Hello once again!

We hope that everyone is having a fantastic summer so far even though the weather has for the most part been total ~~shi~~ garbage . One of us has been very busy this summer and the other one has been on vacation for the better part of it ...seeing as how yours truly is typing up the blog as we speak and not on another camping/ motorcycle trip you can make the assumption that it is indeed Robert who has had the laid back summer thus far . (nope...not bitter though).

What has happened since the last blog posting you ask? Well, we were fortunate enough to have one of our good friends Blair from Nitro Image to invite us out to Saskatoon to shoot some pictures of the race cars out at SIR. Unfortunately it started to storm later on in the afternoon so we packed up our gear and headed back to Regina only to find out that it ended up clearing just in time for the jet cars to run . We had a great time anyway and a huge thanks to Blair for getting us ringside seats!

We also held a Nightscapes fieldtrip and if you can believe it we even had fantastic weather with NO evening thunderstorm! Everyone had a great time and we are looking forward to announcing more fieldtrips in the near future.

Alright ...onto some photos:

The photo above and below were shot out at Dallas Valley Ranch Camp when I went along one day with my daughters class to help them with canoeing. They were both shot with my little waterproof Pentax Optio W80 point and shoot camera which just goes to show that you don't have to spend thousands of dollars in equipment to get decent results.If it isn't glaringly obviousto you already...the photo below did have a bit of work done to it in Photoshop.

We will now move on to a couple of the pictures that we shot in Saskatoon out at SIR:

Lens (mm): 100
ISO: 400
Aperture: 14
Shutter: 1/160
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

The above picture that I shot was tweaked in photoshop to render the photo black and white while keeping in the blue.

Here are a couple of shots of our buddy Blair from Nitro Image doing what he does best

Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 200
Aperture: 13
Shutter: 1/125
Exp. Comp.: +0.3
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

Blair then took a few pictures of us. Not sure why I'm laughing so hard in this picture but I'm pretty sure that this was shot prior to Robert dropping his lens against the railing! That being said all of the equipment did survive the fall

Lens (mm): 200
ISO: 200
Aperture: 13
Shutter: 1/30
Exp. Comp.: -0.3
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

The above shot was obviously my attempt at being artsy fartsy while trying to stay out of the way of the completely suffocating clouds of burning rubber

Surprisingly enough Robert is seen photographing a motorcycle. Who knew that he held an interest in that subject matter???

We will now move onto a few pics that I shot from our Nightscapes Fieldtrip that we held a few weeks back:

Lens (mm): 38
ISO: 400
Aperture: 29
Shutter: 1.0
Exp. Comp.: -0.7
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

The above shot was taken right around 8:00 PM as the sun started to go down.

Lens (mm): 17
ISO: 400
Aperture: 20
Shutter: 5
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

Lens (mm): 17
ISO: 400
Aperture: 22
Shutter: 30
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

As you can see the above "ghost" image of Rob was done with a 30 second shutter speed throwing in a quick flash thus the transparent look.

Lens (mm): 44
ISO: 400
Aperture: 11
Shutter: 1.0
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority

Below just for fun the image of our huge winter storm last year was thrown in. With all of the garbage weather that we have had this spring/summer so far putting the image in for what we have to look forward to in the coming months just seemed appropriate lmao...yuck!

And with that wonderful image we will conclude this entry of the blog. Please check back within the next month for a new entry covering our trip to Palm Springs in the middle of July. Can you say insanely hot...yep!