Hobbies
Aperture Nature Photography Workshops Contest
Checkout my submission for the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops Contest. Here is a description from the website… “The Aperture Nature Photography Workshops at Olympic, Tetons, Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks will take four groups of professional and amateur photographers to America’s most scenic destinations to make spectacular images while learning how to get the most out of Apple professional photo editing application, Aperture. Beginning in September, 2008 and contiuing through August 2009, we’ll run contests. This is the second of four and for this contest, a group of four professional photographers will be joined by four amateur...
Read MoreLastolite Ezybox Hotshoe and Pocketwizard FlexTT5
For those of you familiar with the Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe softbox you will probably agree with me that it is a must have for any strobist doing portraits. While I really like the lighting results the hotshoe bracket leaves a lot to be desired. I usually trigger my off camera flashes using IR with an ST-E2 or for longer distances I use a PocketWizard FlexTT5 and MiniTT1. But If I’m using an IR trigger I usually have to mount my flash backwards in the Ezybox so the IR will work, which makes it impossible to adjust the flash settings. You’ll also notice that there is now a decent gap from the front of the flash to the back of the Ezybox. While this is not...
Read MoreCycling Results 07/14
My roommate Sean joined me tonight on a ride and man it was windy. We took a new route that I really liked but I’m not sure I’ll do this one again at night. It was so dark on William D Fitch Parkway I could hardly see 3 feet in front of me even with the light on my bike. Total Time: 47:57 minutes Distance: 10.08 miles Avg Speed: 12.6 MPH Max Speed: 26.5 MPH
Read MoreCanon Speedlite Wishlist
Syl Arena over at PixSylated wrote an excellent post on some of the current shortcomings of Canon flash technology. As a Canon shooter and avid strobist I feel Syl’s frustration every time I can’t do something with my Canon gear that is relatively simple with Nikon gear. I am a huge fan of Joe McNally and Scott Kelby but both photographers shoot Nikon so their tutorials don’t always carry over to Canon users. So when Joe is tells you to set up flash group A at this power, flash group B at that power, and flash group C at this….. oh wait…. I shoot Canon and my ST-E2 is still stuck in the analog era and doesn’t have the functionality...
Read MoreCycling Results 07/11
Well I went for another ride this morning and had my first crash on my road bike. A car hugged a corner and pushed me up into the curb. Unfortunately I couldn’t unclip fast enough to catch myself; I need to work on getting out of the clips faster. Damage to the bike wasn’t that bad, just a few “character” marks on the bike now. Instead of riding around the Rock Prairie area I rode down to South West Parkway and back. I like that route because there are bike paths almost the entire ride. Total Time: 32:22 minutes Distance: 7.04 miles Avg Speed: 13 MPH Max Speed: 21.7 MPH Not bad, 10 minutes longer than last time and 2 1/2 miles further. Next...
Read MoreCycling Results 07/09
Figured I would start entering my rides into my blog so I could track my progress and people could help keep me going if they see I haven’t posted anything in a few days. Total Time: 22:22 minutes Distance: 4.78 miles Avg Speed: 12.8 MPH Max Speed: 23.1 MPH Overall it was a good ride. The temperature finally dropped below 100 degrees so it wasn’t that bad. I picked up some bike shorts last weekend and that helps ALOT. Before I could only ride a day or two and then I couldn’t sit on the bike for several days. My goal is to ride again on Saturday.
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