Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM – love this lens. It’s built like a tank, weighing over a pound (17.8 oz.). By far, the fastest lens I have ever shot with, it has taken some getting used to. The focus plane at f/1.4 is paper thin and because of that, focusing becomes a bit of […]
Industrial hopper on the grounds of the Harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 20 acre Harley Museum campus sits on what once was the Lakeshore Sand Company and Morton Salt. This hopper was used by those companies and existed on the site when construction began. The architects decided to keep it, moving it to its […]
Rivet wall at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The stainless steel rivets, engraved with a custom message or personal tribute and donor name are attached to a weathered, rusted wall. According to Harley-Davidson, each rivet tells a story and you can listen to some of them here. The rivet wall currently consists of two […]
I probably had over 250 shots by 9am this morning… it was foggy at sunrise and the light (or lack of) was amazing. The dew was quite heavy and there was water over everything. The sky was much darker than this, but I used a long exposure to pick up what little light and color […]
What does HBW mean? HBW = Happy Bokeh Wednesday – a term in the Flickr community. What is Bokeh? According to Wikipedia, Bokeh (derived from Japanese bokeaji ボケ味, “blur”) is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. Did […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Corn shocks were once commonplace on American farms. The newly-harvested corn would be stacked and bound vertically for drying and curing, all done by hand. With the introduction of mechanical harvesting, corn shocks disappeared from the countryside, yet they remain an important part of autumn iconography – found at road-side farm markets and arts & […]
An early autumn forest… bright blue sky and the sun in the tops of the birch trees. Often times, photography is all about looking at things in a new way, getting a different perspective and making the ordinary interesting. Other times, it’s about capturing the essence… making a photo that will convey. Convey what you […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
I took this shot with the leaves directly between my lens and the sun – as you can see, the sunlight glow is coming through the leaves. The exposure I used left me with a pale, pale blue, almost white sky. I desaturated the image a bit, leaving the background completely white. I liked the […]
