La Tour Eiffel

A photo from when I was in France 2 years ago. I never did post-processing on it before because frankly I liked it without it but I wanted to mess around a bit for a "contest" I'm doing with it on flickr about birds in flight.

Sunset Garage

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 100

The working man is back! Sorry for the delay in fresh pictures (and my wonderful comments). I was at U of I for a few days then it was Father's day and the family was over and I began my internship yesterday as well.

This picture didn't turn out quite as well as I would've liked. Then again, it's 3 pictures blended together and I didn't have a tripod so not a HORRIBLE attempt I suppose.

P.S. I know I need to update my archive... soon!

Sister

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 27.5 mm

I took this at Elena's grad party. It turned out pretty well! I'm off to U of I for a few days so I won't be around commenting most likely but I'm going to try that post at a future date thing and see if it works.

Creepy McCreepster

I know I've posted a few "dark" photos the past few days and thus I decided the need was there to lighten the mood. Again this is from downtown Chicago. Every time I look at this photo I can't help but laugh. Maybe it's a weird sense of humor, I'm not sure. Let me know what you think :)

EDIT: To see it in it's full glory (or at least not crunched up), just click the picture.

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention! I got my internship! It's with a company named Cummins-Allison. Pretty sweet :)

Demons

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: 0.769 sec (10/13)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

A self-portrait I took today. Not really sure how the idea came to be. Suppose I'm in a slightly darker mood. I figured the only way I can get better at shooting with people is to actually do it but it's hard to get willing (and available participants) hence why I'm doing it all by me onesey.

P.S. I don't have a drinking problem :)

The Dog Days of Summer II

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: .067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 13.5 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

This is my second image of my dog Nikita and the Dog Days of Summer Theme. She's really fantastic and almost knows when she is supposed to be posing for photographs compared to other random commands I try to instill upon her (sit, stay, quiet, down, etc., etc.). This effect is called the Orton Effect and is essentially overlaying a light sharp image with a dark blurred image upon a normal image. It's kinda cool I think and related to some HDR photography. Let me know what you think!

Edit: Like most of my pictures from Flickr now, it looks better if you click on it and open up flickr. That way the resizing of the very large image to half it's size doesn't look quite as bad.