Bbouwsema Photoblog

I’ve Moved

bbouwsema — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:45:25 +0000

I have decided to take my photoblog over to another web hoster. The new site is much cleaner looking, as well as much easier to use. Along with that it also is a photoblog specific provider, focusing strictly on photography, unlike wordpress. So please update your bookmarks and favorites to my new site.

http://bbouwsema.aminus3.com/

I will try over the next couple months to transfer all images from this site to the new one, so bear with me as I do that. Soon I will also have a nice portfolio page in which all my photos will be presented in a thumbnail format, and they can all be viewed quickly.

Foggy Trees

bbouwsema — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:46 +0000

This is another photo from deep in my archives, in fact from more than two years ago. This street is on the edge of town, with an open field right across the street, I would really like living there. We’re heading to our hometown for the majority of the week, so I’m hoping to be able to take some more photos for my blog here.

Camera: Canon PowerShot A10
Focal Length: 29mm
Aperture: F/4.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1250sec
ISO Speed: None Recorded

Oh the Dales

bbouwsema — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:25:48 +0000

We have been watching a lot of the British Tele series based off of the books by James Herriot. It makes us miss England terribly, especially the dales. So in honour of that, and my lack of taking photos lately, I dived into my photo archive and came up with this photo of the dales.

Camera: Canon PowerShot A10
Focal Length: 7mm
Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/1000sec
ISO Speed: None Recorded

Lines and Window

bbouwsema — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:12:23 +0000

This photo was shot a couple weeks ago while I had the rented lens. Not very often to I photograph architectural details, but I would like to get into it a bit more. The simplistic and clean look that can be achieved with architectural details really intrigues me, not to mention it is in my line of work. You may noticed I’ve changed my signature, I wanted some that was more simplistic than before.

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 50mm
Aperture: F/14
Shutter Speed: 1/500sec
ISO Speed: ISO-400

Scratched Ice

bbouwsema — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:25:43 +0000

I’ve been really busy lately processing J&M’s engagement photos, so I have no taken any time to process some for my site here. Here is a quick one though. We went skating on Sunday, and I pointed the camera straight into the sun path on the ice. Using a super fast shutter speed and narrow aperture I captured the texture of the ice nicely I think. I like the way the ice looks scratched, but is a bit fluid from where they flooded it.

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: F/16
Shutter Speed: 1/10000sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100

Tangerine Oranges

bbouwsema — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:56:35 +0000

The lens I rented wasn’t anywhere near a macro lens, but I used it as such to take this photo. These pieces of fruit are a cross between tangerines and oranges, so tanganges, or orangerines? They are very good by the way, very sweet.

I like the side light aspect to this shot. On second thought though, this is not really a macro shot…

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: F/4
Shutter Speed: 1/40sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100

Sunny Ivy

bbouwsema — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:21:53 +0000

The rented lens has gone back, but I did have a great weekend of shooting with it!

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: F/4
Shutter Speed: 1/50sec
ISO Speed: ISO-400

Waiting E

bbouwsema — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:13:55 +0000

I have rented a lens this weekend (Canon EF24-105 F/4 L) to do some shooting. I originally did not want to rent such a nice lens, fearing that I may like it too much to give it back, but I will have to take it back on Monday. I had to take a quick walk downtown after I had picked it up so took the opportunity to shoot some photos. Image quality and sharpness is incredible, but that is to be expected with Canon’s top of the line models, I will have to be satisfied to go back to my other lens once this weekend is over. I shot this photo from the other side of the street, novel idea for me. Even with such a wide aperture the whole scene seems to be in focus, so much different from my current lens, maybe I have more to learn about depth of field, or maybe it is just the rented lens?

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 60mm
Aperture: F/4
Shutter Speed: 1/800sec
ISO Speed: ISO-400

Front Street

bbouwsema — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:59:05 +0000

It would appear that our weather is going to improve enough in the next couple days to be able to actually get outside, so I’ll be doing that, and hopefully coming up with some more interesting photos than shooting out our windows. I’m also renting a Canon EF24-105 f/4 for the weekend, so we’ll see what kind of shots I can get with that.

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: F/9
Shutter Speed: 1/125sec
ISO Speed: ISO-200

New Light

bbouwsema — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:54:57 +0000

Not only does new living arrangements mean bigger windows, it also means new interior lighting opportunities. North facing windows (I find) give off the best light for indirect object lighting, and we’ve got a nice big one. We also have a large on in the living room, so if I arrange things properly I can achieve light from both sources. We’ll see what opportunities this gives me for shooting objects inside the house, this pineapple being the first I’ve tried. Slow shutter speed meant the photo is not sharp, I could go back and shoot it again with a faster ISO speed, but I won’t.

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/130sec
ISO Speed: ISO-200