Autumn's Show

Since Autumn has been putting on such a show as of late I thought I would show a few of my images from the few times I've been out.

This first one is my attempt at shooting the reeds into the setting sun. I am some what happy with the way it turned out but not completely
This next one is the reeds I was selective focusing on. I don't like the balance of it but thought it was ok anyway.

The last one is a crop of a shot I had taken from up the hill looking down at some nice looking trees but I found this crop was better as all the other "stuff" was distracting in the full photo

Photo editing programs "flow" explained

Well I've been using some form photo editing software for about 3 now (something other then MS paint). I started with The Gimp and Picasa and have moved on from there. One thing I never understood until today was the "flow" option you get with the brush and some other tools in software like the Gimp or Photoshop. I never had a problem understand opacity but flow I just didn't get. I've always just used 100% flow and haven't ever felt like I was missing anything. Well I decided to do search or "google" it. Now I have an answer I'm not sure how I will use this information yet but I have it.
Here is where I found it.
The answer I found

Basically while opacity is controlled by the number of pen/mouse stokes flow is decided by the length of time you hold it down.
Lesson Learned

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Reuters Photography Olympics Video

Video
A really interesting video on Reuters coverage of these past Beijing Olympics.

Ducks for Lunch

So you might be thinking that I had duck for lunch... maybe with a nice orange sauce. But no that's not the case. I had spent my lunch our at the beach shooting (with my Nikon) various subjects. These aren't technically the best photo's but I liked them enough to share. The light was terrible (harsh being the middle of the day) with hard reflection off the lake (I live and work near a lake nice!!). Was shooting on Manual I think about 1.5 stops overexposed from what my meter (matrix) was telling me. It's amazing how different the water looks all because of the difference in angle from the sun. Happy shooting.

So here are a few of shots I got this year at the Abbotsford Airshow 2008. I shot this using my Nikon D80 with my new (at the time) Nikkor 70-300mm VR lens. I really like this lens but I don't think it was the best match for high speed aircraft photography. The event was great as I've been wanting to get down to the show for about 4 years now. We (my girlfriend and her kids and I) camped just outside the airport grounds which was good other then a small flooding problem we had. Also met up with an old friend who was camped beside us. It was interesting as I was shooting next to some guys with uber gear that made mine look like a toy. One guy had a D3 and a 500mm VR lens on a Wimberly rig. Was pretty unreal to see. The D3 sounded like a machine gun when it was shooting at full speed. Was damn cool.

11 Refreshing Ways to Bring out the awesomeness in Life

Bring out the Awesomeness in Life
I don't want this to become a place of repost's but I wanted to share this.

Mount Revelstoke National Park 2

So here are two more photo's from my trip to Mount Revelstoke National Park. The first one is another shot of my buddy Dave. Just a close up of him with his pack. I like the expression on his face and how the Lightroom plug-in "Sugar and Spice" worked on it.

The next picture is a close up of one of the many waterfalls we passed on our way. I was going to call it "Color Orgasm" but decided against it. What do you think? The frames ... do they add to it?