Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Home Made Flash Diffuser/Gel Holder


I ordered this set of Roscolux Filter Swatches for $4 on Adorama. The idea being that I could use them to gel my on-camera flash and my SB-600 speed light. First, I took the filters off their spindle and made a little box to hold them in.

I also picked up a frosted piece of thin plastic from Marshall's, it was designed to make cut-out stencils. For my purposes it will make a good diffuser for the rig that will be going on my on-camera flash.











The contraption was made out of matte-board and super glue. It fits right over the on-camera flash on my D200 and is masking taped in place. In the below example you can see shots with just the normal flash, the diffuser, and the diffuser/colored gel:

The Next step is to make a similar contraption for my SB-600 speed light. As you can see in this example, I used 2 flashes, my on-camera flash with an orange filter and my speed light with a green filter taped over it.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Camping/Hiking on Mount Rainier

This past weekend our gang of pals headed down to Mount Rainier National Park to camp and hike for the weekend. I was eager to try out my new Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens. You can see the lens in action in this photo taken by Nate Zimmer. There is me taking a shot with the friendly chipmunk roughly 6" from the lens and the corresponding photo! That shot was taken at the Fremont Lookout, at over 7,100 feet!

Britt has been getting into photography, which is awesome! I gave her my Nikon D60 and she went nuts! She even started her own Flickr page! It is truely exciting to have your fiance get into your hobbies with you.

I put a few of my shots from the journey up my flickr.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Seattle Sounders!

I played soccer growing up. No, that isn't strong enough. I LIVED soccer growing up. They say that soccer is not a matter of life or death, it is much more important than that.

So, when I heard that the Seattle Sounders FC was going to be practicing on the field we have at work, I was pretty damn excited. They had a small warm-up session then split up into small teams to scrimmage. They played half-field so the action was fast and exciting.

Naturally I had my camera with me and caught some really awesome shots of these guys! The photos can be found on my flickr page.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Cougar Mountain

Mike, Britt, and I went for a little bit of a hike at Cougar Mountain. We all brought our cameras and shot to our hearts' content! Not only was it a wonderful day and a great exercise, but we also got some fun photos! Here is one of my shots that I got on the hike. We were hoping to run into some wildlife, but all we got was this snal... and it might just be a shell.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

4th of July Weekend!

This past weekend, 4th of July weekend, my mom flew in from NY and we had a blast! On our first day's adventure we took a trip up to Deception Pass. Day two took us through the Seattle Arboretum and downtown Seattle. That night we shot off fireworks at Nate's parent's house to celebrate the birth of our country. Day three found our cheeky adventurers in Mount Rainier State park.

The weather held up for us beautifully all weekend long and we were able to take a lot of amazing photographs! I have posted a bunch of those photos on my flickr photostream.