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Foggy Morning on Doty Island

October 4, 2016
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October is here and the mornings are starting to feel like Fall. I have been out and about the past few weeks on a variety of assignments for my day job. The next few weeks will be about the same. This shot was taken on Doty Island as the fog started to clear. I only had my 100mm lens with me so I had to take 5 shots and stitch them together into a panorama. With the 100mm I set my shutter speed at 1/100 sec (about as slow as I dared to avoid camera shake). At a f/9 aperture,…

Pewit’s Nest – Baraboo

September 19, 2016
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Road Trip(!) Saturday. Went down to Pewit's Nest natural area. Very pretty - maybe more people than I would expect for a late Saturday afternoon in September... Late afternoon and it was relatively dark in the woods. So the problem is too high ISO sensitivity which equals noise. So I set the ISO to 640 - pretty low noise on my 5d - and the shutter speed and aperture on manual. From past experience I can handhold this lens at 1/15seconds so set the speed there and then the aperture to get a reasonable exposure. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon…

Hanging Out

September 15, 2016
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Just a casual portrait in the park. Nothing fancy, nothing planned - just look at the camera and and the shutter snaps. This is both the easiest and the hardest portrait to capture. Sometimes it just happens and it is effortless, but just try and get this look on purpose. We are so self conscious today and we all "pose" for the camera. Fake smiles, fake poses, fake Facebook lives. Why is it so hard to be natural? Canon 5d Mk III | Canon 24-105 f/4 L | 105mm | 1/240s at f/4.0

Sunday Morning in the Park

September 14, 2016
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Sunday Morning in Riverside Park. Not Much more to be said! Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 70-200 f/2.8L II | 180mm | 1/160s at f/5.6

Storm in September

September 7, 2016
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A storm comes in from the West. It is September but really hot and humid the past few days. I caught this in the early evening as the front came in - perfect timing. A few minutes later and it was heavy rain with boring grey overhead. I did not have my widest lens with me so I shot this as a panorama and stitched together 5 shots. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 25-105 f/4 | 24mm | 1/40s at f/9.0

Labor Day Sunday Worship

September 5, 2016
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St. Mark's joined with Gloria Dei, St. Paul and Our Savior's for a public worship service in Riverside Park, Neenah. Wonderful time together and such a beautiful morning. See all of the pictures at: St. Mark's Neenah Website Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 70-200 f/2.8 II | 200mm | 1/250s at f/4.0

Video Shoot on the Wolf River

September 1, 2016
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We had a video shoot on the Wolf River (near Fremont) yesterday afternoon. Always great fun to do shoot some video with old friend and to make some new friends. Did a bit of still photo action shots along with the video and I will post them later this week. The keys to this shot is a very high shutter speed to freeze the action and a smooth panning motion to reduce any camera shake. The consequence of the high shutter speed is you need to shoot at an open aperture to avoid excessive ISO noise. Focus precision becomes critical…

Max and Saurab at High Cliff

August 29, 2016
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Site seeing with some friends from Grenoble, France. We watched a beautiful sunset at High Cliff State Park and really enjoyed the colors. This is a technically difficult picture to pull off for several reasons. The first is the backlight from the sunset will fool your camera into making their faces really dark. However, if you expose for their faces the sunset will be too bright and all the color will be lost. The second is the high depth of field requires a small aperture which will drive the shutter speed down and the ISO up. Low shutter speed -…

Best Laid Plans

August 23, 2016
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The best laid plans of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Robert Burns August full moon and I was ready! It was a beautiful night in Oshkosh - just perfect! Temp was around 80, modest humidity and there was music playing at Waterfest. I arrived on time and set up the perfect shot. I would capture the full moon rising between the girders of the rail road bridge across the Fox River. This would be an awesome shot with the diagonal bridge outlined acaings the darkening sky. I used…