Sunday, May 10, 2009

Heading out on our voyage to New York.

Course has been set, new Jib is up, lines are good and we are ready to head out. Leaving Tortola tonight heading to New York city on this 49 foot sail boat. We will be out at sea for about 9 days, maybe 8, possibly more. For the past several days I have been doing nothing except partying and prepping the boat for its voyage. It has been good, sadly though I have no photos to put up just yet, I have some taken but none on the computer to put up. I will hopefully be able to put them up while I am in New York for a week. I will post back here when we sail into NYC!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Trip to the British Virgin Islands

So I am leaving for the British Virgin Islands in less than 4 hours. I am meeting up with my cousin who I have never met, and my Uncle. We are gonna be sailing my Uncles boat up to New York. The plan is to get in tonight and get to the boat, where my cousin and I will start prepping it to go on its 10 day voyage. We will probably island hop for a week or so, then head out to sea and eventually make it to New York. I will have my D80 and will be taking plenty of photos and hopefully be able to post some before we leave the virgin islands so keep following and see what comes up!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Past couple of weeks.

So I really haven't been able to shoot a whole lot these past couple of weeks but here are some that I had been able to get.

So about two weeks ago my friend Kylie and I went for a drive with our DSLR's just looking around for something to shoot. We ended up finding an abandoned bus on the side of the road, it was pretty torn up, which made it even more interesting. However we were only there for a couple of minutes because we were not sure if it was on someones property and really didn't feel like getting the cops called on us. But this is what I was able to get.

Hole in the Bus 2
Nikon D80, 1/320 sec, f/3.5, 18 mm, ISO 100, Flash Fired



Hole in the Bus
Nikon D80, 1/200 sec, f/7.1, 200 mm, ISO 100, Flash Fired



Random Bus in Logan Utah
Nikon D80, 1/200 sec, f/8.0, 18 mm, ISO 100, Flash Fired


Then a couple of weeks ago I was up late one night and decided to go out and take some night shots, it was like 3 in the morning and I was sitting there in the middle of the road take random photos. It was a very interesting experience. This is what I got out of it.



Street at Night
Nikon D80, 13 sec, f/13.0, 70 mm, ISO 100



Black and White Temple at Night
Nikon D80, 15 sec, f/13.0, 135 mm, ISO 100



Building at night
Nikon D80, 33.7 sec, f/18.0, 135 mm, ISO 200



Logan Cityscape at Night
Nikon D80, 30 sec, f/18.0, 135 mm, ISO 200

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Best of 2008.

So the other day I saw a post from a fellow photographer of his best photos of 2008. So I decided to try the same thing. Then I realized that I have only had my D80 since April of 2008, not even a year! So I have gone through my photos from these past 8 months or so and this is what I came up with. Hope you like.

Favorite Portrait of '08

Sterling
Nikon D80, 1/100 sec, f/5.6, ISO 500

So I think that this is my best portrait of '08, taking the day I got my new SB-600 flash and a big thanks to my now ex-girlfriend for putting up with me wanting to take some good photos of her.

Favorite Photowalking Image of '08

A little bit of color.
Nikon D80, 1/25 sec, f/4, ISO 250

Taking at my one and only photowalk of the year this photo really grew on me. I got really into colorization a while ago and I found that colorizing the red ring around the wheel added a lot of character to the shot.

Favorite HDR of '08

HDR of the Pier.
Nikon D80, f/8, ISO 100, HDR Blended with Photomatix Pro.

This shot, which was taking on a trip to California right before Christmas, soon became my favorite HDR of '08, now there is a runner up to this which was a very very first HDR which I still love.

Runner up to Favorite HDR

HDR