Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/3.5 Focal Length: 105 mm Exposure Bias: +0.3ev Speed: 1/60 ISO: 400 Untitled originally uploaded by foolscircle. I apologize for the awful pun-y title; I just happen to like the song “Two Piña Coladas” by Garth Brooks and the damn thing’s been stuck in my head for the past [...]
Archive for May 2008
Photo of the Day: Two Margaritas (Minus One)
May 13, 2008Photo of the Day: PS3
May 11, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/3.5 Focal Length: 18 mm Exposure Bias: +0.3ev Speed: 1/200 ISO: 320 PS3 originally uploaded by foolscircle. I took this last week for an article about the Sony PS3 over at Ars Technica. I originally tried to put the PS3 outside, but the reflective nature of the console’s surface [...]
Photo of the Day: Climbing to the Top
May 10, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/8 Focal Length: 105 mm Exposure Bias: -0.3ev Speed: 1/250 ISO: 100 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. I’m a horrible insect photographer in that I really don’t take much interest in my subjects aside from how they look. I really couldn’t care less as to what their life cycles [...]
Photo of the Day: Butterflied
May 9, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/4.8 Focal Length: 46 mm Exposure Bias: +0.3ev Speed: 1/320 ISO: 800 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. I realize that this isn’t quite macro photography, but it’s got insects. Besides, it’s my blog, so I’m allowed to change the parameters of a theme when I want to. I shot [...]
Photo of the Day: Bumbling Bee
May 8, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/3.3 Focal Length: 105 mm Exposure Bias: -0.3ev Speed: 1/640 ISO: 400 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. The backstory with this photo is that this little bee happened to be the clumsiest insect I’ve ever seen. During the five minutes I spent photographing it, the bee kept on falling [...]
Photo of the Day: Yellowjacket
May 7, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/6.3 Focal Length: 105 mm Exposure Bias: + 0.3ev Speed: 1/200 ISO: 400 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. I found this little guy whilst wandering around a farmer’s market that was near State College, PA. The market itself was located in a WWII memorial area, so there were decommissioned [...]
Photo of the Day: Intrepid Explorer
May 6, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/9 Focal Length: 105 mm Exposure Bias: 0 Speed: 1/320 ISO: 200 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. I posted an edited version of this photo a while back, but it’s long been a favorite of mine in its unedited form. I found this ladybug just sitting on a daisy [...]
Photo of the Day: Humpty Dumpties
May 5, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/3.5 Focal Length: 27 mm Exposure Bias: -0.3ev Speed: 1/4000 ISO: 400 Untitled, originally uploaded by foolscircle. Taken in… good God, where was this? Sorry, all the cities we visited on the Saltimbanco tour start to blend together after a while. I think this was for the Champaign, IL [...]
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May 4, 2008Whilst wandering around the Maker Faire in San Mateo yesterday, my friend and I came across this cool sculpture. In its chest cavity, a gout of flame would flare up in a pattern that mimicked the beating of a heart. About every thirty seconds or so, the entire thing would light up like this and [...]
Photo of the Day: Prowling Hunter
May 4, 2008Photo Details: Camera: Nikon D80 F-Stop: f/4.5 Focal Length: 54 mm Exposure Bias: +0/3ev Speed: 1/20 ISO: 1250 Hunter, originally uploaded by foolscircle. My friend, Jill Heyser, is an accomplished aerial performer. She also plays Hunter in the Actors Gymnasium stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere”. When she first appears as Hunter in the play, [...]
