A couple of weeks ago I was reading a blog post by Moose Peterson, www.moosepeterson.com, about cleaning your camera’s sensor. Within just a couple days of that, I must have changed lens when there was a lot of dust in the air because I started noticing a whole lot of dust bunnies (sensor dust) in my images. I thought I would ignore them and just clean them up in post, but after having done that to a couple of images, I decided it took way too much time. I ordered the Sensor Gel from photographylife.com. I’ll let you know how it goes once I get it and can clean my sensor.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
First Impressions using the Lee 10 stop Big Stopper ND filter
Last Friday I received my Lee Big Stopper 10 stop nd filter from Adorama. My youngest had been asking me all day to go to the lake to go swimming, so I decided it was time to give in. Here was a chance to play around with my new gear. I hadn’t been sure if the filter was going to fit since I use the Cokin Z Pro filter holder and I wasn’t looking forward to holding the filter against the lens for an extended period of time. I had checked that the filter would fit the thickness but I had also noticed that the pins on the holder didn’t allow the filter to move down far enough to make a good seal shut out all the light. We arrived at Lake Bemidji State Park at about 7pm on a bright, mostly sunny day. As my youngest ran to the beach to go swim and my oldest left to go for a walk, I grabbed my camera, tripod, filter holder and a remote, wireless shutter that I had also just purchased, an Aputure Pro Coworkder Wireless Remote, and headed down to the beach.
After about an hour of playing around with settings, and a couple of different set ups testing long exposures on the water, we headed back home. The boys had fun, I had fun, and now I want to get back out and shoot some more long exposures.
My first impression… I love this filter. Second impression… it didn’t work very well with the Cokin filter holder. So my options were to either figure out a way to make the filter sit in the holder better, or go with the Lee filter holder. The filter, as of the time of this writing, was $140. Purchasing the Lee holder and the lens adapters would run me another $250 or so. A little steep for this stage. So after looking around on the internet, I modified my Cokin holder by turning the pins around in their slots, then filing off the remaining edges that were still sticking out. Now I really do have to get back out and shoot some more!
2014 Beltrami County Fair Motocross
I had the privilege of working EMS for the motocross at the 2014 Beltrami County fair and took a few photos while I was there. Thankfully, there were no injuries at all this year.
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