Parade Photography

I'll be at the Saints' parade tonight but I'm going to enjoy it and just see if I get a few decent shots with my compact Canon SD780 IS. Many of you may want to do some parade shooting in darkness between now and next Tuesday so I'll share some of my thoughts on setting your DSLR for float photos.

 

The Who Dat Bowl Through Others' Lenses

I got nothing this morning except I want to see the highlights of the Saints' victory repeatedly so I'll pass along, in case you haven't seen them, galleries of Super Bowl photographs from publications outside the New Orleans area.

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A New Way To Publish My Pictures

I'm always interested in new technology, make that graphic technology. I just (make that finally) activated an account at photoshop.com and I'm trying to embed a slide show of my vacation photographs. You've see some of these already but there's a reason I'm doing this.

How'd You Do Dat?

I've been very happily receiving  some praise for a shot I took back in February of 2008. I was experimenting with the high ISO setting on my Canon EOS 5D, shooting at ISO 3200 at night. I was hoping to get a shot with very little noise.

I'll review my settings and show you the finished product that got good reviews during my December show at the Art Corner, in Slidell.

More OPs

Other People are doing work much like I might have been doing this week. My wife's client, DRC, is doing some debris removal work in Haiti and we were ready to join them there to help manage press contacts (my wife) and take stills and 5D Mk2 video (me) to document their work. Travel arrangements haven't worked out, yet, but here's an up to date gallery from The Big Picture. I'm ambivalent about going. It will be another adventure and a good test of my skills under far less than desirable conditions but there won't be any rest for at least 2 days and I'm just not as young as I was when I started taking photographs in desolate 3rd World places.

One reason the logistics haven't worked to get us to Haiti this week is that we'd have to stay overnight in Ft. Lauderdale to catch the company plane the following morning. It appears there's some kind of big deal football game going on in the Miami area that has all the rooms booked. When calling the area it seemed like we kept hearing "Who Dat" in the background.

Messing Around With Metering

The metering in your DSLR is what gives the computer in the camera the information it wants to compute the most acceptable exposure settings; shutter speed and aperture. The selections among the metering modes tell the computer what parts of the incoming image data to use or how much to use in that calculation.

 

I'll be using descriptions from the manual for my Canon EOS 5D Mk2 and images taken with that camera which is my favorite camera.

We're Back To The Back

Today more on those buttons on the back of your DSLR. Here's the back of the Olympus E520.

 

I haven't read the owner's manual for this camera but I can tell you about those buttons.