Brooks' Photos

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I haven't had a chance to use it yet but as soon as I mow the yard I'll take some test shots just to make sure.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Seems to be working fine. May need a little tweaking here and there but for the most part it's just fine.

 

[GrauGeist]

Cool Aaron, looks like you're back in business!

Great closeup of the spider, too!

That plant on the porch, in your first photo would make a great close up, especially of one of the leaves against a darker background...perhaps with a soft morning light on them.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The plants don't like the sun very much but your rite, a soft sunlight shot would be cool. The spider is just cool. She snared a bug. I tried to shoot the action,( that was a joke) I got a very faint blur and that was it, but yes I'm back in action!!!!!!!

 

[GrauGeist]

If you remember my photo of the Poinsettia leaf with the raindrops (smaller version attached)...that was taken late morning on an overcast day. If you look at the raindrops, you can see the light from the clouds reflected in them. How I got the effect of the leaf emerging from the shadows, was a faster shutter speed.

In basic terms: If the light is striking the subject and there is a darker background, a faster shutter speed only allows a certain amount of light in. So whatever is in the background fades away since there's not as much light.

In reality, there was another plant behind the Pointsettia with a brown deck lattice behind that. It's all about the art of illusion!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Coool!! Thanks, I will try to remember that. I have a mind like a sieve. Oh, and I'm leaving in the morning for Wise to try and get some photos of the battle reenactment. It's about a forty five minute drive so it's not far. The battle doesn't take place until 5:30 P.M. and looks to be done in the middle of town. Hopefully I can find other cool stuff to shoot while I wait the day, trains, trucks, bugs, barns............... who knows.

 

[evangilder]

Battle re-enactments are interesting to shoot. I did my first one a few years ago. I edited my photos with monochrome and sepia for a more vintage look. It works if you keep the pickup trucks and other modern things out of the photos.

GG brought up some good points about light and shadows. And keep in mind that sometimes movement to the right or left can produce very different results in the photo. The good thing about flowers is that they don't move, so you can walk around them and watch the light as it strikes the different surfaces.

Also remember that different times of the day have different lighting conditions. Dusk lighting is always interesting because the light is softer, and it produces long shadows.

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice pics Aaron.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

It was a long day yesterday. Up at 6:00AM and went to bed at 3:00 AM this morning. Found a neat barn.

ATTACH]99252[/ATTACH] It will take me a little while to sort through the 420 photos I took yesterday. The battle was fought in the middle of town so keeping the modern stuff out was a bit impossible. The town police would not let me move around like they did some of the other photographers so I had to do the best I could with what I could get.

 

[GrauGeist]

Now that's cool!

I like all the signs they have on it...great shots!

 

[evangilder]

Nice, but the second shot screams for a sepia. The contrasts of the old boards with the signs I think would look cool with mono and sepia, or even giving it an old color shot look.

 

[ontos]

Hey, I am sure glad you got your camera back. Those pictures are great. I really like the barn. Can't waite to see the reenactment pictures. Glad to have you back in action.

GG, great shot of the poinsettia. Sure enough you can see the clouds in the drops.

 

[GrauGeist]

Nice, but the second shot screams for a sepia. The contrasts of the old boards with the signs I think would look cool with mono and sepia, or even giving it an old color shot look.

Good idea Eric, I didn't even think about that...I was just busy looking at the signs

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Thanks guys. I will try to get into CS this week and see what I can do with it. I just got in from helping a friend move. Another long day. Works going to be tough tomorrow. Again, thank you all for the help and encouragement.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I cannot get Adobe CS to work at all so they get done in color. I'll have to save up some cash and get a Photoshop edition. Here is a link to The Battle of Wise. It kind of a short history of the battle. Battle of Cranesnest The photos are of the camp on Saturday.

 

[GrauGeist]

Re-enactments are great to be a part of, either participating or as a spectator.

Great shots and hopefully you can get some sepia/B&W conversions made!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Here are some shots of the battle. I can't edit out the modern stuff in the shots. Sorry. And the Union troops took the court house.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Re-enactments are great to be a part of, either participating or as a spectator.

Great shots and hopefully you can get some sepia/B&W conversions made!

I can't get my CS program to run. It has to have a serial # and I ain't got one.

 

[GrauGeist]

Fourth picture down...completely badass!

You did an awesome job of catching the cannon's discharge!

The other photos are excellent, but number 4 is the winner!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Fourth picture down...completely badass!

You did an awesome job of catching the cannon's discharge!

The other photos are excellent, but number 4 is the winner!

Yeah, I got a couple of those. Had to clean the gun powder off the end of my lens and I'm not kidding! That was a h#ll of a blast!