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Diane Birch在City Winery。

她好年輕, 聽到她的現場演出我都要融化了我。

修raw檔好花時間而且電腦好慢, 所以挑兩張意思一下就好, 剩下來改天再說（是說上次Tahiti 80的照片其實根本沒修完！！）。

私心推薦Mirror Mirror。

最紅的是Nothing But a Miracle, 這簡直就是冬天的紐約主題曲阿（莫名地就有holiday season的氛圍）。

[FYI]
Diane Birch。
City Winery。

This evening this idea just popped into my head. I simply put my camera on the tripod and dialed in a long exposure. 2 seconds in this case. I used mirror lock up to help insure a clearer shot. I spun the CD, than took the exposure. Pretty simple really.

Summer Bouquet
 
Another photo of Butterfly Milkweed. I shot this wide open, very late in the afternoon on a sunny day a few weeks past the Summer Solstice. The result … surreal colors & an unearthly bokeh.

Also, yesterday I mentioned that I’m considering designing a website for my photography. I’d offer prints for sale in various sizes with a choice of different types of photographic paper. I’m excited about the prospect and will tell you a bit more about it in tomorrow’s post.

11.29.09 #29

© Chasiti Moore

Taken at a local cafe’ downtown in Ansbach, Germany during the holiday season.

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• Das Bokeh Boot
• Holiday Happenings

It took some time but friday night I was finally able to unbox my new pieces of gear: My precious Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.4G and the Nikon SB-600 had arrived!

I’ve not yet fully tested. But I’ve been photography my parents and my sister with this lens and flash all the time. I knew that an external flash would make a great difference, but I was still surprised. I really love how you can use walls to bounce light indirectly on your subject. And in combination with the 50mm everything looks so incredibly sharp. Seriously, this lens is soo sharp and soo fast.

What a great weekend .

my current gear <3

It’s that time of the year again. Everyone is pulling out the Christmas lights and decorations. All the locals are getting their holiday shopping done. Everyone is out and about in town just to enjoy the pretty lights and have hot beverages. Life is such a clatter. I love it.

The Christmas Market is finally up and happening downtown here in Ansbach, Germany. The smell of grilled sausages and hot milk beverages fill the air. This year is my second year to be here for Christmas only this time I can actually enjoy it and see more of it. I’m pretty excited about getting my cup of hot sweets and buying some authentic German hand made ornaments. This year, I’ll be able to experience the holidays to the fullest. I’m ready.

Saturday night my husband and I headed downtown to just walk around and enjoy the scenes. I got in some shots of the Christmas market and what not in. I was able to actually use my new 50mm. I love it to the fullest. Just for now, I’ll post two of the first photos of the night.

© Chasiti Moore

I absolutely love Germany this time of the year. It’s my favorite holiday and Germany does it up the right way. I’ll be posting more photos and such periodically. I hope you guys enjoy them and I hope your holidays are swell.

Where I live you know the Holiday Season is truly upon us when the large lit Candy Canes are hung from the power poles of in our village. It’s been a Christmas tradition for years now.

Just a note, if you click the picture it gets large and clearer.

The title of this image is Flowers for Mr. Poe. I think Edgar would have liked this photograph. And I want to mention that I am contemplating designing a website for my photography. Whatcha think?

11.28.09 #28

Today’s image is of a spice rack in our kitchen. My sister won it in school, though I’m the only one who uses it. I wanted to shoot something with natural light this evening and this caught my eye. Since it’s night and our kitchen is dimly lit I had to shoot at high ISO and a large aperture. The Canon 50mm f/1.8 is a decent little lens for the money, but I don’t really find the results usable until it is stopped down to f/2.8. It’s relatively sharp there, but still needs a bit of sharpening in post processing. I quite like the shallow depth of field in this shot.

Berries & Cream, Quite Delicious!

Who knew crabapple trees could look so gorgeous in autumn? It’s usually the springtime blossoms that attract the eye. A matter of how you see it!

11.27.09 #27

Meglehetősen negatív hangvételű teszt került ki a photozone kezei közül a Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM objektívéről, érdemes meglesni.

Az obi felépítésével nem volt semmi kifogásuk, azonban a teljesítménye egyes esetekben eléggé elkeserítő volt, figyelembe véve a borsos árát az objektívnek. Kattintsatok ide a teljes tesztért.

Optikai minőség:
Mechanikai minőség:
Ár/érték arány:

1/250 sec @ F1.4 ISO 400

Baby Wesley sleeping @ home

I had an image in mind this evening, but couldn’t quite replicate what I was wanting. Sometimes not being able to adjust the output power on my flash is hard to work with. None the less I can still do a lot with it and am having a great time.

All that’s sweet was made, but to be lost when sweetest,
 
I’ve mentioned that I adore dried hydrangea petals – they have a bittersweet beauty about them don’t you think? The title of this image is from a quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton.
11.26.09 #26

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Tulips on parade.
This photo was taken approximately half a year ago when Spring was in all its glory. No textures, filters or layers have been applied to this image. I love the way this shot turned out.

11.25.09 #25

The wife and I took a hike in Tilden Park last weekend and came across this old car in the middle of nowhere. The closest road was about 1000 vertical feet up a cliff, so its obvious that the passengers didn’t survive the plunge. Relying on the model of the car, this incident happened long before I was even born and it still made me pause and think about the lives that were lost. I could imagine a family trying to escape the summer heat of the Central Valley to enjoy a day on Lake Anza. In the back seat children tightly grip their floaties in anticipation as the smell of a cooler, moist environment replaces the stench of the valley in summer. The next thing they know the whole family, as they say in the medical field, are expired.

I guess the moral of the story is to enjoy every moment of this life. You never know when your demise may come, leaving in your wake a photo op for hikers on a long winding trail in the woods.

As always, shot on the T1i/500d with a 50mm 1.8 lens.

what a wonderful horrible day

This evening I decided to make a few pictures of fire wood. We heat mainly with wood during the colder months, so it’s a pretty available subject for me. I was pressed for time this evening so I just put my flash on camera and bounced the flash. I think I will get a bit more elaborate and take the flash off camera sometime soon.

A Self Portrait (although that sounds a little "Grand")

I’ve been thinking about how rarely I appear in photos. I’m always taking pictures of other people.

To my shame, pictures of me in family photographs fade out at about aged 8, because I went through a phase of pulling faces at the camera. So there is very little of me from then on. Which is a bit sad really.

I took this picture in front of my sofa in a flat on Ealing Common (I would have been about 34).I’m wondering if I’ve changed or not.

Was it supposed to be sharp or not? I don’t know.

My Grandmother has relatively current head shots of all her Grandchildren on display in her home. I’m in one of those pictures, but it’s anything but current. It’s circa 2001. She’s been asking for a new picture since 2003 or so, so I decided to shoot one for her. I hope she will be happy with it.

Recently I had bought a Nissin Di622 for strobing purpose from Mitmivec – Eric. To summarize it, the flash has a rather slow recharge speed. It is good to use for strobe, but not really for event covering. As usual, I still prefer to have the own party flashes to stay on the camera’s hot shoe. Else, it is fine to trigger via Radio Trigger or Optical trigger.

Other than that, to fullfill my needs, I had DIY some color film that can work as gel and to be used on the flash. That was how I create these two photos. By using the color films on the top of stofen. The ingredients are listed in the DIY GEL for flashes.

As usual, the setup will be shared. This time I had draw it into a pcs of paper and scan into computer. First it is easier to keep track on what I had did before, and also I may need similar setup in future. Here the setup for this round and please forgive my ugly drawing:

Note: Both flash doesn’t really direct flash to the Chivas. To avoid reflection, it is somehow the feather light hit on the chivas.

Since the gel is on top of stofen, there are still some white color flash to be produced. The reflector is to reflect some of these lights to fill some lights on the Chivas.

Please feel free to comment on the setup. You may have better idea and help me to do better. Thanks in advanced