Stars

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Justin

this is actually an older picture i took about a year and a half ago. after collecting those little paper star things for a week, being bored in my room, and with a new lamp on my desk i decided to take a “cool” picture. hundreds of ideas later this is what i came up with. for the most part i think it came out pretty good. if you want you could even rate it like 6 gold stars, that’s pretty good seeing that most of the time ratings are out of 5 stars. and maybe with the economy doing so bad some lenses will go on sale and i can get myself a nice christmas gift.

Canon 300D – 50mm – f/5.6 – 1/25s – ISO400 – Handheld

San Simeon

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Justin

san simeon state park beach sunset. it was the perfect time for camping. the sky was clear, the sun was nice and warm, the water was nice and blue, there were hundreds of seagulls on the beach that i got to run through and didn’t even get pooped on, but most importantly, i was with my buddy ol’ pal ryan (see). our campsite was cool too. but then the next morning after this pic fog came in and never left… while two miles down it was clear as a crystal (or whatever else is clear). but it’s all good cause i had fun and no one shot their eye with a red ryder bb gun and that’s all that matters.

Canon 40D – 22mm – f/22 – 3.2s – ISO100 – Tripod

Mammoth

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Justin

mammoth mountains. i could for sure move to mammoth. or anywhere i can take pictures like this at night. i set up my tripod, camera, lens, remote, the usual. then clicked away. some of the pictures were 5-10 minutes long. so while waiting i would lay on the ground and look into the sky. you can see shooting stars, airplanes, the milky way (not the candy bar), but the coolest thing to me is that you can see satellites. they just glide across the sky, you can even follow them with a telescope if your lucky enough. so my lesson for today is buy an expensive camera, expensive lens, expensive cabin, a cheap blanket for the ground, and enjoy the world. if that’s too much for you just go do something for 10 minutes without a cell phone.

Canon 40D – 10mm – f/3.5 – 99.0s – ISO3200 – Tripod

Beachin’

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Justin

After a horrible fireworks show I wasn’t going to go home early. I had lugged all my camera gear down to the beach for 15 minutes of nothing. I always wanted to go down to the beach late at night and take pictures but I was always afraid I would fall and crack my head open, or someone would mug me and take all my gear. But this was the perfect opportunity. I waited about 10 minutes for the people to clear out a little. Then I went to town on these long exposures.

Canon 40D – 10mm – f/3.5 – 30.0s – ISO400 – Tripod

Bus Ride

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Justin

Ending a long trip (day and a half, if that’s long) we were coming back from Santa Ana and I sat on the bus anxiously waiting to go home — probably at the time thinking about watching all the shows I missed on TV. My head was on the window rattling with the bus as it went over bumps, while my eyes were glued on those white lines on the freeway. Then I looked up and there it was… this scene. So there’s my lame story for this picture.

Canon 40D – 10mm – f/13 – 1/400s – ISO400 – Handheld

Cloudy Day

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Justin

I don’t really even remember a story for this picture. So I will just give you a cool quote to think about. “If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office,” said George Lucas. That might be true for some movies, but Jack died in Titanic and that is the top grossing movie ever. So i say, if the boy or girl dies it adds $1.8 billion.

Canon 40D – 28mm – f/8 – 1/8000s – ISO400 – Handheld

Siamese

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Justin

A Siamese cat taken in my friend’s backyard. I think this is the only cat I have ever been near that would stay still when you put it somewhere. The first thing that I noticed about him/her (not really sure what gender it is) was its eyes. They really popped. So I put the cat on the table and shot away hoping to get one before it bolted, but he just sat there. I framed my shot and started getting closeups on its eyes and this is what i got.

Canon 40D – 22mm – f/22 – 3.2s – ISO100 – Tripod

Palos Verdes

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Justin

Malaga Cove sunset, in California, in case you don’t know where that is. This was within the first week of getting my first DSLR. I went down to the cove with a couple of friends, thinking i wouldn’t get any good shots. I was just a beginner, but I really liked this one.

Canon 300D – 18mm – f/22 – 1/125s – ISO100 – Handheld