Sunday, November 29, 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend 2009

I was not far from White Mills Ky thanksgiving day. That night, I buzzed on over to White Mills for some night shots.

The rock shot is from a creek not far from the house (warren co).

I went back to White Mills Saturday night, since the Thursday shots turned out fairly well. It was clear and I went for a star trail shot this time. Some day, I'm going to fire off a several hour shot.


180 Second, f/4, ISO400

The white curved pvc pipes provide the structure for christmas lights that haven't been lit yet. I'll probably go back one night with the christmas lights on. Maybe some of the light will reflect off the falls.

60 Second, f/4, ISO400

A creek bottom in Warren Co.


White Mills again, not cloudy this time.

15 Minute, f/8 ISO100

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Foggy River, Again.

Still trying to get a good sunrise over the bridge. Not this time, lots of fog from the river. The sunrise shots were not great, and didn't make the cut.

The woods are along the greenways trail just past the bridge.





Along the Greenways trail, just past the bridge.


Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 - Or Not!

Nothing here. It was rainy and overcast. I had hoped to go out to Shanty Hollow and setup the camera for a long exposure shot over the lake (which should be roughly the right direction for the best view). It is supposed to be pretty good this year. On the bright side, I didn't have to get up at 1am this morning. Maybe next year.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

My Day Shots Suck!

Did not get much during the day Saturday, but I managed to salvage a few morning shots by converting them to black and white. I have both the black and white and color versions of one of the shots. These are all on Barren river in Bowling Green. Grabbed some decent night shots Saturday night. Got there a little later than I had planned, wanted more with blue sky. The morning shots are hand held, the evening shots are tripod mounted. (The first two are the morning shots.)

Went back Sunday around 4pm, walked over to the rapids. Two of those are at the bottom of the post.

This location is only 10 minutes from the house, and relatively easy to shoot. I am figuring out what works and what doesn't. Yep, I will probably shoot this area until everyone is sick of it, much like I have with the pond in Mammoth Cave.

The weather was nice all weekend. Sunday night, I had to pull off a sweat shirt and go around in a tee shirt - in November. There was little or no wind.






















The look of the water in the bottom two was by accident. The camera was mounted on a tripod, as low as I could get it. I had the camera strap looped on a tree limb just in case. I was using live view to frame the shots, but I really could not see what was going on. I guess I hear 'angle finder' in the future. The exposure time was 1/4 second on both of these water shots. I was surprised that you can see individual streaks and drops whizzing by. I had one that was 1/3 second and I like the water even better, but the framing was not good. I will be playing around down there, so we'll see. (I'll probably fall in as this is on the rock pile). There is a gob of gunk on the limb from where the water was high, but what are you going to do.

I will be scoping out more moving water to play around with, and or, fall in the creek with. I have played around a bit with moving water, just never hit that 'sweet spot' of 1/4 second before, and did not know you could get those results.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Bowling Green at Night

Not a lot for this weekend. Friday night I had an hour I had to kill in town. I haven't tried any hand held night shots, so I hit the square.  In general, they turned out much better than I anticipated.  I kept an eye on the exposure, letting some of the shots blowout the brightest highlights. I thought those would be the best, but the shots with no blown (or barely) highlights were better. Here are a few, all at 6400 ISO.

I caught the sunrise at barren river both Saturday and Sunday morning but there were absolutely no clouds in the sky and the shots were uninteresting (that is putting it kindly). Win some, lose a lot.