What an odd roll of film to discover in my son’s bedroom – Kodak Gold 200?! I found this odd because:
Probably My Best shot in the roll?
I was sifting through some boxes in an effort to remove some junk in my room and discovered an unused roll of expired Fuji Superia X-TRA 400.
Infrared Photo of Old Toronto City Hall. I am assuming that the “dark face” of the clock was reflecting little to no infrared light to my camera.
Even before I picked up the Fuji Acros film (mentioned in my last post), I had walked into the Henry‘s Camera Shop down the street from DC and found a roll of Ilford SFX 200 film. I was intrigued by the box – It was black, with the letters SFX in purple…why is this film different? So I bought the roll and later that day asked Jon about it…
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It’s been a while since I posted a random photo. Just been behind on a few things. In any case, here is an oldy. It snowed a bit today, and reminded me of some older snow scenes that I’ve taken. And looking through my older shots, I saw this one.
Shot with my old Pentax K10D and Pentax’s DA 10-17mm Fisheye.
Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 10-17mm FE
1/750
f/6.7
10 mm
ISO 400
Shooting snowy scenes always gives me this calming effect, the quietness, the serenity of everything after a fresh snow fall gives you this peace from with in. At least with me. I hope you enjoyed.
Butterfly
Apologies for the super late post. I just got my new phone today, a Galaxy Nexus S, and I’ve been playing around with it a bit much. It is also my GF’s birthday, so, stuff had to be taken care of.
Anyhow, this was a picture shot at this massive art place in upstate NY, called Storm King art center. They have a massive expanse of land, and they have massive artwork all over the place. I don’t think we even got to explore the whole place. In one area, I just noticed a bunch of insects, bee’s, lady bugs, butterflies. I sat there observing, and I decided to just start taking photographs. I don’t have a true macro lens for my Pentax, but the DA* 50-130mm lens proved to be a worthy lens. Below is one of my personal favorites from that set.
Pentax K20D
Pentax DA* 50-135mm F/2.8
1/1600
f/2.8
135 mm
ISO 100
0 EV
If you would like to see more photos from that set, here’s the link.
My apologies for skipping a day, I was out with some sort of stomach virus that pretty much took me out all of yesterday and the better part of today. I am feeling better however, and normal useless posts will resume.
Today’s random photo is Raging Bitch by Flying Dog Brewery. The name really implies this beer. It has a mean taste, and a mean bark. If you don’t heed to it, it will bite you in the ass in more ways than one. One of my more recent favorite brews. Pick up a sixer if you ever get to see this around.
Pentax K20D
Pentax M-50
1/1250 sec.
F/1.8
ISO-200
85 mm
I actually didn’t shoot this. My friend shot this, and this image is highly edited. This was during possibly the greatest vacation I ever took. End of summer 2009, I went to the Pacific Northwest for a few days for fun and relaxation. It was all of that and then some. Just travelling without and stress is a worth ten times more than the cost of the trip itself.
My friend showed me around the Seattle area, and we took a drive down to Portland, Oregon for the day. On the drive back, we elected to drive towards the Pacific Coast Highway, to stop by the Pacific Ocean. We got there a few minutes before the sun started to set. I took a few shots of my own of the sun set, and little did I know my friend was taking photos of me taking photos of the scenery. I turned around and saw her, so I decided to take a pic of her also, and this was that photo. I ended up messing around wit it a bit in photoshop, and I made it look like i was shooting the sunset instead of me taking a picture of her.
Photo by Kat Sezto – Post processing by Jean-Paul de Guzman
Nikon D90
1/250
f/14.0
52 mm
ISO 200
And for comparisons sake, here is the original image, straight RAW conversion to JPG.
One of my fave shots during the ‘Where is Garfield Now’ era, or WIGN for short. I just did some play with some lights, and made one of my Alien toys, stalking Garfield.
I really ought to bring back a similar series. The original Pez dispenser is all beat up, so I should pick up another similar one.
Camera Pentax K20D
Pentax K20D
Pentax DA* 16-50mm
1/80
f/4.5
36 mm
ISO 800
Main St. USA – Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World.
I shot this during my friends 2nd shot at running the WDW Marathon. That year, he did the Goofy Challenge. Half
Marathon on day 1, and a Full Marathon on Day 2. Physically taxing, yes, but super motivational, and definitely a feat to feel good about once completed. One of the advantages of being a spectator and a photographer to boot, is the uninterrupted chances of taking long exposures such as this, with out being bumped or someone walking in front your shot. Again the K20D’s in body Shake Reduction system shines, and coupled with a very wide angle lens, a slower shutter speed can be used without the need for a tri-pod.
Pentax K20D
Pentax DA* 16-55mm
1/20
f/2.8
16 mm
ISO 1600
One of the shots from my failed 365 set. This was close to my house, and as I driving, I happen to look that way, and saw some nice colours due to the setting sun. I stopped real quickly, and pulled out my Pentax K10D, and take a couple of frames.
Now I should’ve taken some 10 minutes and carefully shot it instead of just shooting it from inside my car. I’m overall not that pleased with the shot.
At the time thought I was still really learning more than anything else.
Pentax K10D
1/6 sec.
f/8
28 mm
ISO 800
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