Curtains

We live about ten minutes south of the halloween capital of the world. (can you believe it!?) So on Saturday we attended the halloween parade of lights. I was excited to try to get some nice light pictures... or at least play around with the lights. So When we got settled, I set up my tripod, and camera just before the parade started. This guy came up behind us and said, "looks like your all set up!" I guess I looked like a "real" photo nack, because he started asking me questions. I did my best to answer things like what my shutter speed was set at, and my F factor, and angels and whatever. Then I turned to see that he had REALLY fancy camera gear, and realized that I was not just talking to some amateur like myself. He then asked me what I had my "curtain" set at. uhhh.... I had no idea what he was talking about! So I was honest, and glad that I was because he took some time to explain to me what this meant.

Basically, your curtain determines at what point in the frame that your flash, flashes. There are two curtains (atleast on my camera). If the curtain is set at "First Curtain", then the flash will flash at the beginning of the shot. If the curtain is set at "second curtain", then it will flash at the end of the shot.

Here are some examples taken by me... not perfect but they get the idea across.

Okay so in this is a first curtain. If you see that the truck is more exposed at the front, but then the lights trail off into the blue all by themselves.


In this next one, the curtain is set at "second curtain". So the flash went off at the end of the frame, exposing the truck... so you can see what the lights are coming from.


pretty cool concept! -- ill have to work on it!

Frozen Green

We were in CO to experience an infrequent ice storm. here are some images I took during that storm.

Simple motion...cool effect

One more 2 photo pano from NH

Panorama made up of 12 or so images.

Looking up from the pond.

From the Tee Pee, taken with my old 50 mm 1.7

The Land

While in CO, I went to the Tee-Pee with Alma and Grampster. We took some great shots and enjoyed nice weather.

At the top of the ridge.

Looking southish from the top of the ridge.

Also on top.

below the pond near the road.

The stars and Tee Pee

Near the road.

goofin again

The Constellation has a long way to go to get back home to Baltimore this time.....so does flipper.

New Hampshire October 15 2009

Grandma Shauna and Papa Zeke took a drive up in the White Mountains and just went wherever Grandma's finger pointed. She chose wisely, except for Hurricane Mountain Road, which was like "Crazy Rollercoaster Road." Papa got sick. Here are some photos from the day. Grandma spotted the fungus and thought it was gross. I was excited she pointed it out and took a picture.

NH & Maine

Over the Moon

Dj took these pics as geese were flying frantically around in circles after our first snow... I do not think the were ready for the cold! (neither were we) Anyhow, they finally calmed down and got it together and flew away... "over the moon". or so it seems in DJ's pics. pretty cool huh? ( you can see the moon better if you click on the pic...the clouds don't really help with the contrast)

NH Pics

Stowe Vermont

Classic red barn

Emily's haunted covered bridge. The real legend is that a girl named Emily was jilted by her fiance and hung herself in the rafter's of this 1884 bridge and still haunts it. Of course, there are a lot of Halloween stories going on just now.

Stowe Vermont

This is Dad's favorite, because he loves to take water shots and he had to stand in water over his boots to get it.

This is Mom's favorite.

Art??

I saw a piece of art hanging on the wall in one of those upscale department stores....I thought it was cool, so I wanted to try something similar. Theirs was probably some fancy multi-method print media. I used photoshop....anyhow, tell me what you think (Isaac took the photo, I did the post processing):

Ma and Pa's 30th anniversary in Stowe, Vermont

Church and amazing fall colors

Everywhere we look here it is so beautiful. Dad can hardly

decide which picture to take first; there are too many great shots.

Amazing hike along and through many little creeks and waterfalls.

Beautiful leaves . It was brighter than this shows

It was 46 degrees and we hiked to almost, almost 2500

feet. Wow, huh?

Mist in the morning. All photos taken by the new great
photographer, Papa Zeke.