Archive for February 2008

Photo of the Day: Leora

February 12, 2008

Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D100 F-Stop: f/4.5 Focal Length: 24 mm Exposure Bias: 0 Speed: 1/15 ISO: 400 Leora, Center Stage, originally uploaded by foolscircle. One of my first photo assignments after I got my D100 was to photograph a party being thrown by the Multicultural Club on Whitman’s campus. While I was there, I [...]

Photo of the Day: Sherman’s Lagoon

February 9, 2008

Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/5.6 Focal Length: 18 mm Exposure Bias: +0.3ev Speed: 1/30 ISO: 1000 Fillmore, Center Stage, originally uploaded by foolscircle. Last weekend, I was hired to photograph the world premiere of the Bentley School’s latest musical production, Sherman’s Lagoon.  The play is based on the comic of the same, which [...]

Photo of the Day: Welcome to the Great Outdoors

February 8, 2008

Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/5.6 Focal Length: 57 mm Exposure Bias: +1.3ev Speed: 1/1000 ISO: 200 Welcome to the Great Outdoors, originally uploaded by foolscircle. When we were on the road as part of the sponsored trip by Red Truck Wines, we came across the Craters of the Moon National Monument, which -in [...]

Photo of the Day: Down, Down We Go

February 7, 2008

Down, Down We Go, originally uploaded by foolscircle. Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/5.6 Focal Length: 168 mm Exposure Bias: +0.3ev Speed: 1/800 ISO: 400 While wandering through a children’s festival in State College, PA, I came across an inflatable slide which happened to be about thirty feet tall (I exaggerate not). It was [...]

Photo of the Day: Norfolk Sunset (How To Make A Panorama)

February 6, 2008

Norfolk Sunset, originally uploaded by foolscircle. Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/4.5 Focal Length: 18 mm Exposure Bias: 0 Speed: 1/125 ISO: 200 Assembled in Photoshop CS3 This is actually 7 photos combined into one panorama. I was on an evening cruise in Norfolk, VA, and liked the contrast of the cranes against the [...]

Photo of the Day: Rob Lok

February 5, 2008

Rob Lok, originally uploaded by foolscircle. F-Stop: f/4.8 Focal Length: 52 mm Exposure Bias: 0 Shutter Speed: 1/500 ISO: 400 Rob Lok, one of the various performers I was on tour with for a while. This was a promo photo we took for him to use at an upcoming festival in China. It was actually [...]

Photo of the Day: Fire and Darkness

February 4, 2008

Fire and Darkness, originally uploaded by foolscircle. Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/4.5 Focal Length: 18 mm Exposure Bias: +1.0ev Speed: 1/200 ISO: 400 My view of the burner flame in a hot air balloon I rode in one night; this was at a Halloween festival near Peoria, IL.

Photo of the Day: Night Juggling

February 2, 2008

Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/4.5 Focal Length: 18 mm Exposure Bias: +1.0ev Speed: 1/2 ISO: 1000 A kid I met at Syracuse University when I was on tour with Cirque du Soleil. I kept my camera on a tripod and lit the shot with my SB-800, which I offset with a slave cable.