Our friend Christy Taylor (wife of friend and fellow minister Jason Taylor) holding a sleeping Daisy not long after the puppies arrived.
Another view of the field of windmills by Weatherford, OK. This time with a faster shutter speed to stop the motion.
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Steve Webel
on Aug 24th, 2007
@ 10:44 am:
In your windmill shot you can see that you still have ‘sensor dust.’ I highly recommend you clean it out with a blower or some other ‘safe’ method. At the very least, you can remove it from the photo in PP after the fact with the clone tool or healing brush.
To see the full extent of your dust problem, set your camera to the highest Aperture setting you can (aka – the smallest aperture your lens allows – probably F22 or something similar) and take a photo of the cloudless sky or a blank wall or something like that. Then blow the photo up to 100% on your computer, your dust will jump out at you!
marie
on Aug 24th, 2007
@ 5:37 pm:
There really should be a law against posting a picture of a completely adorable, irresistably cute puppy like that!!! :)
We have three in our house and there would be more if we didn’t think the hotels would pitch a fit when we want to stay there!
So, do you take yours on vacation with you or does some kind soul watch over them when you are gone? I have heard so many nightmares from others about leaving their doggies in a kennel that I could not do that unless forced to.
Blessings on your weekend!
BTW, how does that fellow see dust in the windmill picture???? :-D
Art Rogers
on Aug 24th, 2007
@ 8:36 pm:
Steve,
This is in the same group of pictures that I took last time, so the sensor dust is the same as before. I hope to go to the camera store tomorrow and find something to use to blow it away.
marie,
They are new, so we haven’t taken them anywhere or had to leave them. Our previous dog had a self feeder so we could leave him for a long time with friends just dropping in to see if he was fine, throw the ball, etc.
These are beagles, and they will eat until they explode, so we can’t do that anymore. We’ll have to get folks to feed them for us.
:(
Art
Steve Webel
on Aug 24th, 2007
@ 8:43 pm:
Marie,
If you can’t see the dust, maybe your monitor needs calibration? Sensor dust shows up on photos that have a small aperture (large F number) and it looks like a little, circular ‘smudge’ or slightly darker spot – usually seen when the sky is the background.
The two most noticeable spots in the windmill shot are about an inch to the left of center – the big one is about 1/4 of the way down from the top, the other is at the tip of one of the windmill blades. If I can see those spots at this low resolution, I’m sure that at a higher resolution, a few more dust spots would also be present.
Does that help? (I didn’t want you to think I was crazy and seeing things that are not there!) I don’t mean to knit-pick, but the photographer in me immediately notices sensor dust, crooked horizons, blown-out highlights, distracting composition – those sorts of things. Just wanted to point out the dust, it’s VERY easy to fix if you pay attention to it.
cb scott
on Aug 25th, 2007
@ 4:45 pm:
Art,
Micheal Vick you ain’t.
cb
Art Rogers
on Aug 26th, 2007
@ 12:20 am:
By His grace, I am not many things and I am grateful.