Photo Walks Today

Lynnwood Washington – January 2010

This looks like a fantastic event! Anyone want to join me – I’m thinking of attending.

2-days of Digital Photography Education
Join us for this exciting event
This unique event is focused on digital photography education and targets photo enthusiasts of all ages, skill levels and interest. This exciting event will feature over 20 hours of educational seminars taught by the best local and regional photographers and photo educator.
 
The education sessions are divided into three tracks, Hardware and Software, Creative Techniques and Business and Travel.

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Lynnwood Washington – January 2010

This looks like a fantastic event! Anyone want to join me – I’m thinking of attending.

2-days of Digital Photography Education
Join us for this exciting event
This unique event is focused on digital photography education and targets photo enthusiasts of all ages, skill levels and interest. This exciting event will feature over 20 hours of educational seminars taught by the best local and regional photographers and photo educator.
 
The education sessions are divided into three tracks, Hardware and Software, Creative Techniques and Business and Travel.

More information: http://www.navphotoevent.com/?q=node/1

One million lights and so much more…..

Christmas Lights at Warm Springs

 This time of year it seems it’s always dark – so you might as well take advantage of it and photograph at night.

I had the chance to do just that last night at The Lights Of Christmas.We originally planned to go on Monday – but the rain was coming down in buckets and I just didn’t feel up to taking my camera out in the rain (or myself for that matter).

Last night was perfect – not especially cold and at certain parts of the evening the fog floated in and around the lights.

Take a tripod and set your camera to about 800 ISO. I took a few photos before settling in on the bracketed exposure parameters I wanted. I set my camera to ’spot meter’ and bracketed exposures at 1 1/2 over and under. I decided to take a monopod instead of a tripod – for safety reasons. It was dark and lots of people and children are milling around, which meant I had to use a very wide open aperture – f/3.5 which gave me a very shallow depth of field and a few shots were very blurred.  (Next year I’ll bring a tripod or invest in one of those monopods with feet for more stability).  I saw another photographer using a tripod and in fact if you look closely you’ll see him in one of my photos – LOL.

I shot in RAW which gave me much more flexibility in post processing.

To find more about the Warm Springs Lights Of Christmas - and do a night photo walk visit their website at: warmbeach.com

Keeping Warm By The Fire

Dress warm. Not exactly wheelchair accessible (several dirt tracks with uneven ground) - but I did notice there were electric carts with folks being given the tour. Call ahead, I think they’ll accommodate your needs.

blue mountain

 For the shot above I used a star filter on my lens instead of waiting to put the effect on in post production editing – the light from the electric car adds an nice effect blended with the wisps of fog.

I think The Bait Shop is my favorite of the series. My only regret is no tripod so that I could create a HRD from this. But with a monopod one simply can not stay still long enough to capture the necessary three consecutive shots.

The Sail Boat - Christmas on The Puget Sound

Who’s taking a picture of whom?

Santa in the mist

 This photo I had the star filter on and combined with the light fog created a great star glow around the deer.