A couple of years ago, MG Miller, a local cartoonist, was in Blackduck using his talents. I caught a few images with one little girl as Mr. Miller sketched a portrait for her father.
M. G. Miller hard at work.
Dad watching how cute his little girl was.
M. G. Miller at work.
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.
sensor dust – d7000
sensor dust – D80
Lee Big Stopper at Lake Bemidji State Park
Copyright 2014, Bill Caddy – Caddy Imaging
Shot taken with a Nikon D7000 set on manual using a Tokina 12-24mm AT-X 124 AF PRO DX lens. The exposure was taken at 12mm, f/8 for 25 seconds at ISO 100 with a Lee Big Stopper filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 5.6, Google Nik Software’s Dfine 2.0 and Sharpener Pro 3.0.
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!
Lee Big Stopper at Lake Bemidji State Park
Copyright 2014, Bill Caddy – Caddy Imaging
Shot taken with a Nikon D7000 set on manual using a Tokina 12-24mm AT-X 124 AF PRO DX lens. The exposure was taken at 14mm, f/14 for 25 seconds at ISO 100 with a Lee Big Stopper filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 5.6, Google Nik Software’s Dfine 2.0 and Sharpener Pro 3.0.
Lee Big Stopper at Lake Bemidji State Park
Copyright 2014, Bill Caddy – Caddy Imaging
Shot taken with a Nikon D7000 set on manual using a Tokina 12-24mm AT-X 124 AF PRO DX lens. The exposure was taken at 13mm, f/8 for 30 seconds at ISO 100 with a Lee Big Stopper filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 5.6, Google Nik Software’s Dfine 2.0 and Sharpener Pro 3.0.
Lee Big Stopper at Lake Bemidji State Park
Copyright 2014, Bill Caddy – Caddy Imaging
Shot taken with a Nikon D7000 set on manual using a Tokina 12-24mm AT-X 124 AF PRO DX lens. The exposure was taken at 24mm, f/14 for 30 seconds at ISO 100 with a Lee Big Stopper filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 5.6, Google Nik Software’s Dfine 2.0 and Sharpener Pro 3.0.
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.
Airing it out at the motocross
Catching air in the quad race.
Here’s one
And another…
And lastly:
For Sale
Copyright © 2012 CADDY .|. IMAGING
Shot taken with a Nikon D7000 set on manual using a Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG APO Macro HSM II lens. The exposure was taken at 78mm, f/5.6 for 1/20th of a second at ISO 100. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 4.3.