Asiana Flight 271 Preparing for Emergency Landing
I caught this image today as I was waiting to board the Ferry from Kingston to Edmonds. I saw this Boeing 777 dispersing fuel over Puget Sound. Knowing this was an unusual situation, I grabbed my camera and snapped off some shots. The reason the airplane had to dump its fuel was because it was preparing to make an emergency landing at Seatac due to one of its engines shutting down. To make the landing safer, the aircraft dumped its fuel to decrease the fire danger and reduce its own weight. Here is a link to the full story. Here is the Seattle P.I. story.Trillium Grandiflorum
Found this growing on the north side of the house we're renting in Everett. I wanted to get a decent image of it, but I realized that picking this flower and bringing it inside to photograph simply wasn't an option. So, with little light left in the day, and an erratic wind constantly moving my subject around and rain beginning to fall, I snapped off a whole slew of images using a black golf jacket as a background. This image is the best of the hastily created bunch. Hopefully I'll have better luck later in the week with calmer winds. This was shot with my Canon 50D and Canon 17-40mm F4 "L". Shutter speed was 1/60th of a second using an aperture of F 6.3 and an ISO of 400. You can learn more about this flower at this wikipedia entry.
Wood and Rocks
Walking along the Snohomish River I found a piece of driftwood with these stones piled inside it. I liked the differing textures and and the way it looked, so I captured it. My only wish is that I had used a tighter aperture as the image falls out of focus rather quickly in the foreground and background.
Balloon Festival Setup
Heres an old shot from my files that dates way back to 2005. This was taken during the Tigard Festival of Balloons. One big mistake I made was that I took all my photos using only the .jpg setting in my camera. A HUGE mistake. I should have used RAW or RAW + JPG when taking my images that day. The reason for that is because RAW contains much, much more information about an image you capture, its as close to the digital equivalent of a negative as you can get. Fortunately, technology has caught up with my mistakes of the past and allowed me to create this image. Using specially created software that produces HDR images, I was able to align 3 different images that were exposure bracketed, then I was able to blend them together.
Abandoned Boat Near Spencer Island (how I learned why its important to think of depth of field)
Heres a shot of an abandoned boat I came across while walking around Spencer Island. Its a pretty interesting scene, but I really messed up by not using a wide open aperture to separate the boat from its background. The original is at the top and you can see how its difficult to differentiate parts of the boat and its mast from the busy background. I should have tried something more similar to what you see in the bottom image which, through the magic of Photo Editing, has the background a bit more blurred out. At least I can consider this a lesson learned in the application of depth of field to an image.
Dim Bulb
ISO 100, F11, 10 second exposure. Bounced a flash off of a reflector that was placed to the left of the bulb. This is part of a stock image that I'm working on. Enjoy!
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