15 miles to the south of Taos, the Sardinas Canyon fire inspires a sunset cumulus cloud…
Sardinas Canyon Fire Cloud
Posted in Gopro Hero5, Time Lapse on June 26, 2018 by budbranchRevisiting 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!
May, 2018
Posted in Available Light, Gopro Hero5, Handheld, Wide Angle on June 3, 2018 by budbranchDear followers –
Here is a recap of May, all shot with the amazing GoPro Hero 5 Black…
And, regarding gun violence in America, consider coming off the sidelines
Roadrunner Jam
Roadrunner Jam
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Paper artist Julie R.
The Spot…
Pot Creek
Fiddler Ed…
Great keyboardist
Party w/Denise
Nature bath with Julie
Julie w/Randy
Supporting the good one!
Got published in Taos News!!
Droning for Gun Violence Awareness
Flamenco!
Posted in Long exposures, Sony RX100-II on May 2, 2018 by budbranch
Hand-held, available light, good times!
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?
