The blurry stuff

I took the pinhole camera out again this evening and tried making a few more blurry photos. It was a lot of fun and kind of frustrating. The pinhole really makes some interesting images, and forces you to shoot at really slow shutter speeds.  Here are a few images

Pinhole

I decided to try and make my DSLR into a pinhole camera tonight, by drilling a hole into a body cap and then taping some foil over the hole and then placing a small hole into the foil. I then spent the night at a local watering hole trying to photograph some live bands.


 


 It was a lot of fun shooting this way, I had the hole too big at first so I had to make some last minute adjustments to get some kind of focus. I ended up having to shoot at between 6400 iso and 12,800 iso to get enough light to get enough of an exposure so not everything was motion blurred.


 

 I really fell in love with the pinhole camera idea while shooting this, and can't wait to try it out in the daylight! Here are a few images of Elko in Temecula,CA at Cellarz93.

Wildflowers

The other day I was assigned to photograph the wildflowers blooming on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Sadly the blooms really haven't started yet so only a few types of flower were open, also it was an overcast morning so not all the flowers had opened up yet. Here are some shots of shooting stars and fiddlenecks, the purple ones are the shooting stars and the yellow ones are the fiddleneck's.

Where's the beach?

Today I had to shoot a portrait of a high school volleyball player who just started playing beach volleyball as well as her indoor playing. The biggest problem we faced in shooting this portrait was the fact that we shot it at her school, and they don't have any sand courts there. So I ended up trying to keep the background as ambiguous as possible. here are a few choice images from today.

A dirty time.

Today was the first annual Murrieta Mud Run, which was held a block away from my house so I decided to shoot it for the heck of it. The mud was more water than mud, but it was still dirty had fun for the people running through it. Here are a few images from the race and here is a link to the rest of them.

Golden Friday night lights

Here are a few images from tonight's Lake Elsinore versus Riverside King high school football game. The light was amazing before the game started so I made a few images of the players warming up.









Here is a link to all the images

Do I smell smoke?

Today I was working out of my office keeping an eye on the scanners for anything going on. When Reports started to come in of a fire started by a car, I saw the area it was in and didn't really think it was close enough to travel to.



So I kept an eye on it for a couple of hours and then a new fire started, this one within located about a ten minute drive from me. So I loaded up my fire gear, jumped in the car, and followed the smoke to the fire! There weren't a lot of flames that I could see becuase the smoke was being held down near the ground.



Due to that I spent the first 10-30 minutes just trying to find any sign of flames. After a little while I decided to drive further down the road to an equestrian center that had been the main concern for firefighters.



I followed a convoy of horse trailers to the center, they were sent to rescue the horses that were at the
facility.



Once I got to the property I found about seven or eight horses in a pen as flames were burning the opposite end of the pen. After about twenty minutes a group of people got access to the pen and started to rescue the horses. The good thing about this fire was that it burned a lot of brush a few outbuildings, but for the most part caused no real damage. Click here to view a few shots from today