Photos From Life

WIDE Angles

briandan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:01:29 +0000

I’ve been enjoying the new lens because wide angles make landscapes and you can just take a picture of everything at once it seems. Here is a picture of the soccer game Saturday night.

New Lens and…

briandan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:09:19 +0000

…a new job, kinda. I started interning at the school paper and my first assignment was this past Saturday was the women’s soccer game. I needed a bigger lens to get better shots of sports but with some creative cropping I got some good images.

This is one of the first images that I took with my new lens. I was doing some macro stuff and this came out pretty cool.

Just having a bit of fun!

briandan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:28:24 +0000

I’m all for messing with a photograph when your open with the amount of editing that you have done. I for some reason was feeling a bit weird and decided to make the sky purple. I’ve heard of violent skys before, but violet?

A bit of perspective

briandan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:35:51 +0000

I really like canid shots. Ones that people don’t even know you’re there when you take them. I do some posed portrates too, but just like shots of people being themselves without being bothered that someone is taking a picture.

I tend to take pictures very fast then ask about it later. Yes, I am a photojournalist, why do you ask?

Just a touch

briandan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:20:49 +0000

I had some second thoughts about one of the pictures I took of my nephew and cropped and touched it up just a little and think I came up with something nice.

More fun

briandan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:24:59 +0000

This weekend I went to a car show with the VW club and had some fun playing with my camera. I got a hand full of good shots including this one I played with a bit to try out some artsy things.

When in Germany…

briandan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:46:56 +0000

In Germany we found that the childrens TV station (Kika Lounge – kinda like Toon Network) went off the air at 9 PM and only came back on at 6 AM. The character everyone is surrounding was their headline character and starred in a bizarre 15 segment that looped all night.

We watched it for hours.

Detail

briandan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:24:42 +0000

On the door of the cathedral in Erfurt, Germany. Out of all the door handles this was the only one like this.

New beginning?

briandan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:13:20 +0000

My goal (and I know that putting this public makes me liable) is to put up a picture a day. No guarantee that I took the picture that day, but that is the way I’d like to go.

Here is Aeryck eating ice cream. I’m still playing with the new Nikon D700, which I love very much, and am still amazed by the results. It’s pretty cool too that I’m using a $110 50mm lens that is getting these awesome results.

NEW CAMERA!

briandan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:44:37 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve been in the mood to talk photography. That all started when the “more durable” shutter in my Canon 30D broke. After just under 8000 pictures taken with the camera it’s now going to cost me $225 to get it fixed.

I was getting tired of Canon in general being totally steamrollered by Nikon so I traded all my Canon gear in for my brand new Nikon D700. All I can say so far about it is WOW. It is so much more capable from the viewpoint of a professional, I’m really looking forward to putting it through its paces this fall when I’ll be on staff at the UNT paper.

Here is one of the first pictures I’ve taken with the new camera. Keep in mind that it was taken at ISO 6400 (extremely high) and I only ran it through the Nikon software that came with the camera. No editing.