David VanKeuren's Photography

This shot was created using a reverse mounted lens focused on a shallow glass pan of water mixed with oil and lit with an off camera flash. The pan was set about 8" off the surface of a table. Placed on the table underneath the pan was a child's drawing. I focused the lens on the smaller bubbles that were acting as lenses themselves and showing a smaller, focused version of the artwork underneath.

Macro Shot

Testing out the macro capability of the Canon S90. Considering these flowers are about the width of a dime each, I'd say it did a pretty good job!

Random Blue Sky Shot

Space Needle as viewed from Smith Tower

Bridge and Ferry

Deception Pass Bridge Sunset

Photo taken this evening. Taken from Cornet Bay looking west towards Deception Pass Bridge moments after sunset. 1 second exposure, metered off of the brightest part of the sky. I used a circular polarizer filter mounted to the lens as well as a handheld graduated filter in front of it. ISO 100, aperture at F16. Shot in Canon RAW format and converted to .jpg in photoshop. This is how it looked coming straight out of the camera, the only adjustment I made is to apply some sharpening to the image after reducing it down in size. Camera was a Canon Eos 50D mounted to a tripod using a Canon 70-200mm F4 L lens.

The Chess Player

In this shot I took two separate images of myself playing chess. Also in each different image I used different colored gels in each image. I then combined them into photoshop and blended the images by moving one onto the other, adjusting the opacity and then further painting in the second image to make it solid. It was a lot of work!

2011 Port Susan Snow Goose and Birding Festival Images

The above shot was one of the first shots I took while I was out today. I posted it here to illustrate how well the geese in the foreground blend in with the snow and ground cover. Not a very good shot though, as I should have used a much tighter aperture than what was used (F4). Due to the wide open aperture you can see that the result is that only a small portion of the image is sharp and the foreground is terribly blurred. What I should have done is tightened the aperture and used my monopod or dialed up my ISO to compensate. This would have allowed a nice, continuous sharpness throughout the image and would have increased the impact of the image. I think the ideal aperture for this shot should have ranged between F7 and F9.

MiG 29 at Paine Field

Air New Zealand Boeing 777

I went out to photograph a new arrival at a local air museum, but missed out on photographing it by a few minutes. While getting ready to get back to my car, I saw this big beauty coming in for a landing and snapped a few shots as it approached. I really like how it turned out!

Kingston, WA

Scenes from a Japanese Garden

Water Lily #1

Water Lily #2

Steps

Pond

Leaves #1

Leaves #2

Ladder Lines

Koi in Motion #1

Koi in Motion #2

Koi #1

Koi #2

Cedar Tree with Fence

Bench

Vintage Aircraft Weekend at Paine Field

"Val-Halla" P-51D Mustang

"Impatient Virgin" P51B Mustang

B-25D Bomber "Grumpy"

F7F Tigercat "Bad Kitty"

Airship Ventures Zeppelin "Eureka" with Farmers Insurance signage. The difference between this airship and a blimp is that this has a semi-rigid airframe and a blimp does not.