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Rodeo Trail Riders

Posted on February 27th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General, Photography.

Well, my big project for the weekend is done. I spent a few hours in the cold and rain photographing Trail Riders on Saturday both before and after the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo’s parade in downtown Houston.

I also spent some time Friday photographing some of the riders coming in to town.

I’ve got them all uploaded on the newly revamped Sun Stock Photo at SunStockPhoto.com
(Edit: Monday Night: I redid the pictures and layout to make them a bit larger and easier to see).

A few of the riders asked me for cards to see the pictures, and I had a banner hanging up during the post-parade shoot informing them they could see the images starting Wednesday at SunStockPhoto.com
So hopefully I’ll get a few sales from this. It sure was a learning experience, both the shooting and managing to sort, prep, and upload 500 or so images (the full size versions fill 3 CDs!).

I will be renewing my old sales tax license on Monday or Tuesday for this also.

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Sailing Pictures

Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: Photography.

I am finally starting to get some of the photos up from a variety of events/trips/etc

The newest one is a collection of shots from various times we have gone sailing on the Evensong out of Kemah, the boat owned by Les & Deb Adams.

Evensong Sailings
(note: all of these images were from the Olympus C-4000)

A little side note on how I am making the albums.

1) Select the shots to go into the album and copy them to a new directory.
2) Make sure they are all orientated in the right direction.
3) Load them into Picassa (free image browser/organizer from Google).
4) Use Picassa to make the webpages, which also automatically resizes the images down to 640 at the widest dimension, and creates the thumbnails.
5) Replace the Picassa logo on the webpage with the SunStock logo.
6) Load the resized images into Photoshop.
7) Autolevel all the images. If any look off, take the autolevel off.
8) Add watermark in Photoshop (using a custom brush)
9) resave all the images
10) upload the new dircetory to the webserver.

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Zoo Trip & Meet-up

Posted on February 12th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: Photography.

Well I went to the zoo (again) but this time to meet with over a dozen fellow photographers from the Houston area.

Great fun was had by all.

Here’s my album of a selection of the shots I took (50-ish of about 300-ish in all)

http://www.uebelhart.net/PICASSA/zoo-2-12-05/

You can see some of the other members’ postings here: TexasPhotoForum .com

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Photography Lesson/Tip/Formula

Posted on February 7th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: Photography.

Okay, unless you want to know about f/stops and exposure time, this post will not interest you. For you other photogs:

A camera (whether film or digital) depends on one main thing for a picture: the amount of light that gets to the film or sensor.
Two major things control the amount of light that gets there: the f/stop and the shutter speed. One other thing plays a roll as well once the light is there: the ISO rating.

The f/stop (or aperature, which is the size of the opening the light passes through) is a number like f/2.8 or f/8. The larger the “number” than the smaller the opening (buckshot and medical needles are rated the same way). Thus an f/8 is a smaller opening than an f/2.8.
The sizes (from largest to smallest) generally go: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.5 2.8 3.2 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.6 6.3 7.1 8.0 9.0 10 11 13 14 16 18 20 22 25 29 32 (and more smaller)
Each of these steps are actualy a 1/2 factor from each other: i.e. an f/stop of 5.0 actually lets in half the light of 4.5. (the actual math, and numbers, have to do with circle areas, inverses, pi, and square roots)

The shutter speed obviously reflects how long the shutter is open to let the light through.
General Shutter speeds (from fastest to slowest): 1/4000 1/3200 1/2500 1/2000 1/1600 1/1250 1/1000 1/800 1/640 1/500 1/400 1/320 1/250 1/200 1/160 1/125 1/100 1/80 1/60 1/50 1/40 1/30 1/25 1/20 1/15 1/13 1/10 1/8 1/6 1/5 1/4 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.80 1 1.3 1.6 2 (note there can be faster or slower speeds depending on your camera)
Like f/stops, each step in the shutter speed results in a 1/2 increment of light: i.e 1/2000 of a second of exposure is half as much light as 1/1600ths of a second. Don’t ask me why.

The ISO rating depicts the sensitivity of the film to light.
Normal ISO ratings are : 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
The larger the number, the more sensitive it is to light. And like the other 2 number systems, they are in 1/2 step increments: ISO 100 is 1/2 as sensitive to light as ISO 200.

Got all that down? Good
But why are you telling me this?
Well….

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Happy BDay Dawn

Posted on February 2nd, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General.

Yesterday was Dawn’s Birthday and was celebrated with a great group of friends at Bucco Di Beppo. Great fun was had by all!

When you see her, ask her about her being serenaded!

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