My Five Most Popular Photos

Well, I’m on a mini-vacation at Sunriver for Labor Day weekend.  I’ve brought my camera and I’ve taken what I think are some exciting photos.  Unfortunately, I forgot my card reader at home and I can’t download the images onto my computer to process them.  I’ll have to wait until I get back home to [...]

Red-Yellow Tulip

I took this in April at the Woodburn Tulip Festival.  I was using a macro lens – Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.  The aperture is set to f/3.2 and the shutter is 1/8000 second.  I was playing with depth of field but didn’t realize that being close to an object intensifies the effect that [...]

Indoor Flower

I forget the name of this flower.  Does anyone know?  I was playing with depth of field on a macro lens that I had rented from Pro Photo Supply in Portland.  The lens I rented was the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.   For this photo, I had the aperture set at f/3.2, which was [...]

Tulip with Bee

I took this at the Woodburn Tulip Festival in April.  I was using a macro lens that I rented from Pro Photo Supply, the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.  The aperture for this image was f/3.2 which was the lowest setting for the given lighting conditions and shutter speeds.  I didn’t realize how small [...]

Velvet Tulips

This was shot at the Woodburn Tulip Festival this last April.  Because it was so bright out, I had to set the aperture to f/13 even though I was playing with Field of Focus.  In order to get the 5 brackets I needed, I had to set the aperture to a small setting so the [...]

Tulips with White Puffy Clouds

I made it to the Tulip Festival in Woodburn, Oregon last Friday.  After it stopped raining, the white puffy clouds that are so common in Oregon came out.  I’m shooting into the sun so I made a 7 bracket HDR shot.  I also masked back in some of the flowers in Photoshop to make them [...]