Photography

For the past several years, I’ve been tasked with taking pictures of the Desert Midwinter competition in Phoenix and I’ve learned a couple of things others might find helpful.

This image, with all camera controls on manual, is about 24 hours after the “super moon” maximum.

Taken with a tripod, manual exposure but, in the dark I didn’t record the settings, on a Fuji “too many controls” digital camera at “darn close” to the full moon moment. The image was cropped this morning and levels tweaked (well, “hammered” would be a better choice of terms) in Paint.Net, my favorite free image editing program. (Looks like I blew the focus. Or maybe, between enlargement in the camera and enlargement in Paint.Net, I’ve just run out of pixels. Regardless, it’s a done thing.)

In-Flight Sunset
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November 30, 2011

The building, not the exhibits, caught my attention at the Air Museum in Wichita Kansas.

Parker, Arizona
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September 24, 2011

Mark’s Towing

A table-top photo studio for small parts.

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