Picture of the Day - September 22

I didn't take this photo.  I friend of mine, Kathy Wicks did.  (Kathy, I hope you don't mind it being shown here.)  She showed it to me and I thought it was just a very cool shot.  I've got no info about it other than I know it was taken through her car windshield with some type of point-and-shoot compact camera.  Another good example of how any camera can take an excellent photo.

Enjoy!
Tom Laux
September 22, 2009

Picture of the Day - September 18

This little brown butterfly was taken the first day I got my new Olympus Pen camera.  I was just out on the back deck noodling around with it, learning all the controls and such.  I love shooting macros and will probably invent in a micro four thirds macro lens as soon as one hits the market, but for now this is about as close as I can get.

Enjoy!
Tom Laux
September 18, 2009

Picture of the Day - September 17

Went back into my archives to find a favorite to post for the picture of the day.  This was shot a couple of years back using every bit of length I could get out of my lenses.  That meant my Sigma 100-400mm f/4-5.6 at 400mm plus a Sigma 1.4x extender while being shot on a Canon 40D with it's 1.6x crop factor.  This gives a 35mm equivalent length of 896mm.  Taken on a very clear and bright fall night at f/8, 1/350 sec using ISO 400 using a cable release and mirror lockup.  The RAW image was processed three times, once for the shadows, once for the mid-tones and lastly for the highlights and them combined in Photoshop CS3.

It's still one of my favorite images.

Enjoy!
Tom Laux
September 17, 2009