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Photo-A-Day, Photography

Finding Dragonflies


Photo-A-Day #3765

Allison and the kids went with her mom and mom’s friend to the zoo. They also had her mom’s friend’s daughter-in-law and kids with them. After we all had lunch at the house they went off to the zoo while I hung around the house making some videos. My father-in-law worked on his computer out on the back yard because that was the nicest and coolest place. I thought that the basement would be cool for me to make my videos but it was just extra hot. So I made two videos and got upstairs. When I went to throw something in the trash barrel I saw this dragonfly. I had to get back downstairs quick to get my camera. I love shooting dragonflies.

The dragonfly stayed in the same place for a very long time. It was there even after everyone had gotten home hours later. But it stuck around for me to take the photos using the new 50-150 S lens that I have on my Samsung NX1. The NX1 is a beefier camera than the NX500 and even on that camera the lens looks incredibly huge. I steadied myself on the recycling container and fired off a couple using the manual focus. I love using the focus peaking feature because the camera lit up the wings like a wireframe and that looked very cool.

Photo-A-Day, Photography

Lighted Snowman


Photo-A-Day #3538

I took my NX1 down the street tonight to take some photos of the lights that one of my neighbors has. He always decorates big for Christmas and Halloween. I took my NX1 and a tripod and set up on the sidewalk to attempt to get some good light’s photos. I wanted to get that starburst glow pattern from the lights. You can get that from a long exposure and a bunch of other factors. I’m not the best at explaining how it all works together but I can figure it out most of the time. You’ll have to click on today’s image above to see what I mean, check out the lights at the bottom of the photo. Those have the starburst pattern to them.