Yeah, I know. A couple nice short posts, and then WHAM, a dozen pictures. These were taken with the rental camera, the tryout weekend. I got to Chris and Angela’s house around 10am, we wer going to hang out, have a picnic and hike a bit. Sophie wasn’t feeling well that morning, but I still wanted to go, and when I got there, they told me to please take as many pictures as I liked of Baxter, so I did. He’s just turning one; at the time of the photos he would have been ten or eleven months at the time of the photos. We had a picnic at an old farmhouse, now run by the state park that owns this section of the coast. There were giant bushes with warrens under them, big old trees, a really good spot. Then, we walked along that coast for a bit. Our destination was a fern grotto on the beach. But first: beautiful windswept beaches where humans aren’t allowed and birds rule. The birds would run forward as the waves receeded and pick at the sand, and then run back up the beach, away from the wave. Walking along cliff, all we could do was look down. When we got to the fern grotto, we rested and snacked while Baxter played with rocks, and then walked back, at which point I was fairly tired. I know this because the photos slow down somewhat. The camera test: As I’ve said already, I’m in love with this camera. The D750 is a really amazing tool. While walking back, I saw a bird flying the opposite direction, towards us. I was able to raise the camera, zoom, and get 3 in focus frames as it passed. It also meant I got the photo of the unicyclist on the cliff. That speed helped a lot when shooting the kid, too. Kids aren’t bird-fast, but they do change constantly, and unlike adults, they’re completely unpredictable. It was also nice to use focal lengths other than 50mm. I may have overused the wide angle end a bit, but it works for some of these. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0008.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0009.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0010.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0016.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0011.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0012.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0013.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0014.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_session_with_baxter_or_a_camera_test/380/0018.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-03-05T07:58:07Z GMT
Came back to work for a few days, not many people around. In case you’re wondering, I’m doing a ton of posts to get them out of the way, to try to catch up to at least last month. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/back_in_the_city/381/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/back_in_the_city/381/0002.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-03-05T07:34:19Z GMT
Just a couple photos, from going to Niles to meet up with Ben and Jenn. I think we also went wine tasting with them? There’s no evidence, at least not good enough for this blog. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/niles_after_xmas/382/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/niles_after_xmas/382/0002.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-03-05T07:29:53Z GMT
These are somewhat out of order, but I wanted the two verticals together. I was in Oklahoma for 13 days in December, then we came back here to have a chill xmas an new year. It was good to see everyone, including the folks I didn’t get photos of. Sorry! I was really frustrated with the old camera at this point, and had just about given up. With this post, we’re now approaching this year! SO. FAR. BEHIND. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/ok_photos/383/0007.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-03-05T07:22:07Z GMT
This was just days before we went to Oklahoma. My company’s xmas party, which was pretty rad. There wasn’t much going on, visually, apart from this. I mean, I have some portraits, but they’re not great. Monochromatic stage lighting is hard as hell to work with. That difficulty is the reason that these are all in black and white. The dominant channel (whatever color the light is) will blow out, and the rest will be ok. You can save this with black and white conversion, with the added benefit that it more closely matches what I see when I’m shooting a scene like this. Something the event organizers did wonderfully with this event: they had at least one really visual element in the evening. It may be because we’re a very media-centric company, or it may just be a stroke of luck that we didn’t have some rock band instead. I was stoked, in any case, that someting cool was going down. Later in the evening, there was much drinking and dancing, even by me, but all those photos are blurry. These make a nice set, though. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/acrobat_on_silks_at_the_company_party/384/0007.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-02-16T09:22:33Z GMT
