Saturday, September 29, 2012

Portland International airport stuff

 Streaking of airplanes


 Harvest moon over a streaking bridge with mt Hood in the background





Monday, September 24, 2012

Daguerrotype

1. A daguerrotype is the first commercially successful photographic process. The surface resembled a mirror. They were prominent in the 1839.

2. The albumen" print was a method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. The main ingredient is egg whites. The process died out about 1895.

3. stereographs are a early form of three dimensional photos. They were popular around the 1870's and 1880"s.

4. A carte de visite was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France. They were used to shrink photos into the size of a visiting card.

5.Alexander Gardner was a scottish photographer and Matthew Brady was also a photographer who took many pictures of Abraham Lincoln. They took many pictures of the civil war. They were active form 1861 to 1865. Post two noteworthy photographs for each photographer.



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Macro

Here is some macro stuff. I did it using the reversing lens technique.

 pencil led
 Pen




 Tip of a sharpie


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Stars and other stuff

So far this is my best star picture-in my opinion

Mt Saint Helens



 My favorite

 More of Mt Saint Helens



This was taken in spain at one of the royal palaces
All of these photos were taken over the summer.
 My first extreme macro picture taken using the reversing lens technique.

Monday, September 17, 2012

some macro photography and what camera I shoot with.

I shoot with a Pentax-5. I have 6 lens total, 1 flash, a couple adapters, a few filters, a battery grip, a tripod, a wired and wireless remote, and in a few weeks I will have a reversing ring and a macro close-up reverse ring.
 
Seikanon mc reflex 1:5.6 300mm lens
 Tamron 1:3.8 80-210mm lenss
 smc pentax-m zoom 1:2.8~4 40~80mm lens
 cosinon-s 50mm 1:1.8 lens and some unknown lens
 sunpak auto 222 Thyristor
 smc pentax-DA 1:3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL WR
Some macro pictures










By the way I am going to downtown portland next weekend to take pictures of the boats and airplanes taking off- possibly some blur photos.