Day 69- This Is Birdland

Tonight's photo was taken inside Camden Yards at the O's Redsox game. The Red Sox's ended up winning the game by three runs in extra innings.

Day 68-Hard Drive Painting

This is my last light painting post for awhile, I swear. This is a light painting of the external hard drives I have connected to my computer. The green light is from an Apple Airport Express I have connected below my computer.

Day 67-Flame

This being my 67 post to the blog, I have learned a few things about my photography. One is that I love doing macro shots, and two low light shots are great, especially when there is fire involved. Tonight's shot is a combination of the two.

Day 66- North Central Railroad

This butterfly followed me for a good portion of my hike on the North Central Railroad trail in Northern Baltimore County.

Day 65- Bromo Seltzer Building

This is a photo of the landmark Bromo-Seltzer Building in downtown Baltimore. It was shot around sunset, from the passenger side of a moving car.

Day 64- Chocolate Memorial Day Bunny

While attending a barbecue at a friends house, I noticed this enormous plastic chocolate bunny. If you look closely you will see a couple of yellow ribbons tied around it. What better to support the troops then with tacky lawn furniture.

Day 63-Fire Painting

Light painting was so much fun last night, I decided to try it again tonight. This time (Kids don't try this at home) I added a little fire into the mix. Actually it was a Bic lighter.

Technique #1- Light Painting

I have already gotten a lot questions about last night's photo. Light painting is a very simple technique, there are just four requirements a tripod, a flash light, a camera that at least allows you to have shutter priority, and the ability to manually focus. If you have an DSLR this is not a problem, depending on which point and shoot you have it gets tricker.

For last nights photo I used my Nikon D50 on a floor mounted tripod, with a 50 mm 1.8 lens. If your camera supports full manual mode you want to start there. I chose a shutter speed setting of 30 seconds, and an aperture of F9. The longer the exposure the better for light paining, you also want to choose a middle aperture so the flash light does not give off too much light.

I found a neutral spot in the room, that I could focus on easily. Turn of the lights. I triggered my shutter using a remote, but you can just hit the shutter button. I turned on my flash light and twirled in front of the lens. The key here is to shine the flash light in front of the lens. If you do it from behind you will just illuminate your background.

A long exposure such as 30 seconds allows you to move in and out of the frame to create ghost like effects. Flashlights can give off different kinds of light. I used an LED flashlight for these shots.

Just remember to experiment with different settings, the beauty of digital is you can reshoot it as many times as you would like. Last night was the first time I ever tried light painting, and I got good results after my second try. Give it a go.

Day 62-Light Painting

Tonight time was running out to get a photo in. So I tried a technique called light painting. I think it turned out pretty well. If you look closely you can see a ghostly image of myself.

Day 61- Gundpowder Revisted

This was my second trip to Gunpowder Falls State Park this year. I snapped this shot of a hawk? about 10 minutes into my hike.

Day 60-Cylburn Arboretum

Two months into this project and still going strong. Today's photo comes from Northwest Baltimore at the Cylburn Arboretum. There were storm clouds rolling in, as you can see. I decided to convert to Black & White because it suited the mood better.

Day 59- Aguila

This is the side of a six pack of Columbian beer I enjoyed last night. I shot this is near darkness with just by flash, and a little ambient light from a window.

Day 58- Blue Sky

This is photo is the complete opposite of yesterday. This was taken with my D50 through the car window. Notice no noise, and the sky is a perfect blue.

Day 57- Purple Clouds

Today's photo is an example of why camera phones suck. This shot was supposed to be of ominous grey storm clouds, but they turned out purple. You can also see an incredible amount noise.

Day 56- Doorway

This is the doorway to Hell? Another dimension? or my office I will let you decide.

Day-55 Towson Courthouse

This is a canon that resides outside of the Towson Maryland Courthouse.

Day 54- Tea Light

Last night was the closest I have come so far without taking a picture. I took this at 11:40 or so. It was a late night at work.

Day-53 Loch Raven Leaf

This was a half sunken leaf, I found at Loch Raven.

Day-52 G9 Tryout

I am in the market for a new point and shoot, and thanks to Adam I got to try out a Canon G9 today. I took it for a spin on my lunch break. There is not much to shoot at noon in the burbs. The sidewalk however always makes for a good shot.

Day-52 Rainy Traffic

Today was a tough day for a photo. We have had about two days of
pouring rain. Add that to the fact I just got home from work, and you
get a rainy shot of traffic.

Day 51-City of Brotherly Love

Philadelphia is a beautiful city. Known as the City of Brotherly Love, this shot is one of those tourist photos that you have to take.

Day 50-Philadelphia Traffic

Wow I cannot believe it has been fifty days already. This shot was taken from the window of my hotel room in Philadelphia. The night photography practice in Baltimore paid off.

Day 49-Time Shoot

This was the shoot I got for the time shoot yesterday. I was walking across the street at 12:00, super exciting.

Day 48-Lazy Mona

Ah I wish I could just lay around like our cat Mona.

Day 47- Penn Station

This was my second attempt at night photography. I took this one pretty fast, from the inside of my car.

Time Shoot May 9th

For all you budding photographers out there check out this site.  Tomorrow at 12 PM EST Shawn is organizing a Time Shoot. Basically the concept is for people all over the world take pictures of where ever they are tomorrow at 12 EST. The can use whatever camera they want, and upload the photo's to a flickr group. All the details ore on the site. I am not sure where I will be tomorrow at noon, but I will definitely take part.

Update

Coming tomorrow three days worth of photo's. I have been taking some, just not had enough time to sort through them to post.

Day 46-Mount Royal Train Station

This is the rough draft of the photo of the day. I am not really into the over post-processing of photos. I shoot in RAW, and have to tweak my photos when I get them onto my computer, but I avoid photoshop at all costs. Tonight is different story. I tried night photography for the first time in awhile. I had a hard time getting a proper exposure because the face of the clock was so bright compared to the rest of the building. This was the best photo to come out of the not composited bunch. I hope to post tomorrow the result of taking multiple exposures to make sure I got all the detail of the building.

More of the 6 Mile Hike

You can see more photo's from day today at http://www.flickr.com/photos/zangariphotography/sets/72157604902798405/



The set includes a photo called Turtle Love, which is exactly what it is.

Day 45-Blue Heron

I went on want turned out to be a 6 mile hike today at Patapsco Valley State Park. This was a shot I got of a Blue Heron, as it was about to take off.

Day 44-Sail & Kayaker

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day here in Baltimore. I spent the day in Canton section of town enjoying lunch, and watching the bay. Everyone was out today from the sail boaters to the kayakers.

Day 43- Beer Suds

Ever wonder what those bubbles at the top of your beer look like? Here you go, a macro version of beer foam.

Day 42-Corpus Christi Day Two

No your eyes are not fooling you. I did photograph this church two days ago. Todays photo was taken around 3:00. The sun was shining directly behind the church. I was once again stopped at a red light. This time around I was able to get more the church in the frame, as well as an art installation from the Maryland Institute of Art. I also found out the name of the church is Corpus Christi.

A Great Photo Blog

I wanted to point you lovely readers to another photo blog acekieffer.wordpress.com. This one comes from my friend Ace. His photos are so bright, and vibrant I cannot believe we have the same camera. 

Day 41-Sherwood Gardens

Today I went to the beautiful Sherwood Gardens. The gardens are located in the ritzy Guilford neighborhood of Baltimore. They are supposedly one the largest collections of tulips in the country. Like so many of my photos of the day this was one of the last ones I took. It was just beginning to rain, so you can see the droplets of water on the leaf.

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