Jer & Min Photography

Yesterday’s storm produced a slight skiff of snow on the ground this morning.  I really love the way a sunrise hits fresh snow even if it is just a small dusting.  It feels so clean.  I’ve got to remember that I enjoy this in 6 months.

Lately, I’ve really been appreciating backlit scenes.  I typically really struggle to capture these and present them in the way that I see them in my mind’s eye, but I try nonetheless.  This rocking chair sits near a sliding glass door.  As I walked past it today, I decided to shoot it.

I saw this old sign while I was out for a run this afternoon. I can vaguely make out the word warning near the top of the sign. The rest of the message has faded away. I shot this as a storm was heading in using my flash to bring out the sign.

I converted to Black and White thinking that it adds a bit of drama to the shot, but will also post the color version in a comment below.

Strobist: single flash fired into a gold reflector.

I had a pretty fun idea for this challenge which would have required a pretty bright morning.  Unfortunately, we have just the opposite as a very nice storm has moved into our little part of the world.  So instead of taking the shot I had planned, I thought I’d share a shot of my favorite window.

This window is in the bathroom of the place I work.  It is a frosted window measuring 41×41 inches.  It makes a wonderful natural light softbox.  The walls to the left are a neutral gray and are easy to manipulate.    As I’ve mentioned before, on more than one occasion people have seen me walk out of the bathroom with my camera.

I decided to take and publish this photo due largely to it being an excuse to try out multi-photo stitching.

I’m admittedly not a major post processing guy, I do a little, but I don’t spend much time working at it.  I have however, been very interested in panoramas.  I decided to see how well freeware software would work.  This is an example of a multi shot image stitched together using Hugin. I’m pretty impressed with its abilities in manual mode.  I tried originally to follow the assistant and have it do it for me, but it didn’t turn out well at all.

Today’s shot used my $6 shipped macro extension tubes.  Pretty good bang for my buck.

While I had my macro extension tubes attached to my camera I decided to go for a black and white leaf.  Unfortunately, it is really windy right now so my focus is somewhat suspect.