I carry a camera in my cupholder, so when I ride, I’m ready to shoot. Even so, it is easy to NOT stop and make a photo. I think a lot of learning photography is training your habit-rutted mind to be open to the fleeting artistic impulse.
Archive for the 5DMII Category
Comet Hunt
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Composite, Long exposures on May 17, 2020 by budbranchLooking for Comet SWAN, but it was lost in the glare of sunrise. Had another camera shooting north 30 sec exposures. This is a composite of 30 frames.
Thunderstorm in Angel Fire + Moonrise
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Available Light, Long exposures, Wide Angle on April 10, 2020 by budbranch10 second exposure as the moon was rising during a distant thunderstorm.
Dark Sky / Milky Way
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Long exposures, Wide Angle on September 22, 2019 by budbranch
A sweet, clear, dark night…
Catching up!
Posted in 5DMII, Aerial, Astrophotography, Available Light on May 6, 2019 by budbranchI have been lazy about posting here – here is a little catchup… BTW: to anyone seeing this, you have an invitation to visit anytime!
New Mexico Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense: we successfully lobbied for expanded background checks in NM!
A La Cart (our favorite lunch spot…)
Hummer – we may have a nest nearby…
Hummer
Hummer
Hummer
Hummer
Hummers
Jupiter and 3 of her moons
Friends from C-ville visited
El Salto Falls
Red Winged Blackbird
Nambe Falls (the first cascade)
Moonset in Taos Canyon
Virga sunset
The wind broke my old tripod – this is first shot off the new one!
Our upgraded mailbox
I have some metal prints hanging at The Coffee Spot in Taos
Artist Julie decorating our upgraded mailbox
I visited my grandkids…
The Carwash from Breaking Bad
My son and I are considering a new joint venture…
Roadside antler vendor
Lobbying in The NM Roundhouse
Taos Balloon Rally
Posted in 5DMII, Aerial, Available Light, DJI Phantom 3, Handheld on October 28, 2018 by budbranch
July Update!
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, Gopro Hero5, Long exposures, Wide Angle on July 15, 2018 by budbranchHere is what I have been up to for the last few weeks:
MOMentum is building…
Tattoo!
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Ground squirrel taunts us
This got published in Taos News
Eskes crowd watching the fireworks
Gun buy-back in Taos
Eskes Bluegrass Jam
Revisiting the Sunflowers
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, Wide Angle on June 20, 2018 by budbranch
These photos are hanging in a show in Taos. An admirer asked me to write a little bit about my process:
The photos were taken during sunflower season in Taos. I was shooting out the passenger window of our car with a 17-40mm Canon 5DMII – we were going about 40MPH. The camera was set for manual focus and the drive mode set to continuous, so I could capture about 4 frames every second. These are the specific settings:
Top photo: 1/125 sec at F/10 ISO 100 20mm
Bottom photo: 1/80 sec at F/7.1 ISO 100 17mm
The reason for the portrait orientation is that I was one-handing the camera, letting it dangle out the window, not sighting through the viewfinder. The blur in the foreground is due to car motion blur, but the background is nominally in focus, due to the small aperture and wide angle lens – the shutter speed was high enough to kill the camera shake, but slow enough to blur those sunflowers zipping by, close to the camera. I did a lot of experimenting with shutter speed to get these nice exposures.
Nice prints of these and others available here!
The Lyrid Meteor Shower
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Long exposures, Wide Angle on April 22, 2018 by budbranch
This meteor flashed through around 2AM this morning. While it appears to be “in” the Milky Way, it is well to remember that the meteor is very close to Earth, actually burning up IN our atmosphere, while the Milky Way is (almost) unimaginably distant.
For extra credit: why do we see more meteors AFTER midnight, than before?
Startrails at the VLA
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Available Light, Composite, Long exposures, Wide Angle on April 12, 2018 by budbranch
This is a composite of about fifty 30-second exposures. A departing car painted the antenna red (I used considerable Photoshop layer masking to get this final effect). Also, that’s a meteor at top right…
Bud Branch 