Sensor Dust

For a few weeks now I have been having my first issues with the dreaded "sensor dust". Its not a fun issue to have. absolutely every image taken has nasty dots all over it. depending on the scene and aperture the spots range from unnoticeable to extremely annoying and degrading to your photo. This image is a screen shot of one of my photos when with all the spot removal selections on it. as you can see it can be a bit of a time consuming issue. next comes cleaning, something I feel will be very nerve racking, one small mistake and the camera becomes useless.

afer posting this a realizing that it may not be the most clear example of the effects of sensor dust, after all it you cant see any. this second photo is an out of focus shot of plain blue sky. this time i did not remove any of the spots, although i did all i could in "camera raw" to enhance them. well how aobut i put the original up to so everyone can see the effect of dust in its natural state.  they are a thousand PX wide for closer inspection(you may click on the photos for larger versions).

Jumping

This weekend we made it out to Tofino for a camping trip. we lucked out with the weather, sunny almost all weekend. The first night we where down at the beach waiting for the sun to set, but unfortunately a small cloud bank sat just above the horizons. without a sunset we were looking for something else to shoot, Phil started to round up all the flashes he could find and we started having a little fun. Max was happy to be jump around as the model and we got a couple interesting shots. And camping being camping it only felt right to have someone drinking a beer, and Marcus was all over that. so a couple shots form that and then some others from the next morning before sunrise. Overall a good weekend.

Tubes

I also bought myself some extension tubes, allowing me to get right up in the face of some bugs. Maybe not the most original or creative photo but its new to me.

I know you were all probly very worried about me, but I am alive

I realize I probably talk a lot about myself here and use the word "I" , but you know what? that ok because this is a blog about me so if you don't like, suck a lemon. So today my good friend Phil dropped the idea of continuing my blog after noticing that it has been over a month since my last post. Being a very easy person to convince, here I am once again. It's not that I haven't wanted to blog but with class it has been extremely busy. like in previous posts, it is this busyness that has put me here, I am procrastinating, not only that but i am also fighting back running to the bathroom to empty a pot coffee I just finished processing. enough of the silly talk, this is a blog for sharing photos and that's darn well what I'm going to do. it's been a long time since my last post and a lot has happened in front of the lens. just a two days ago our lifestyle class ended with a camping trip that involved no sleeping, that was fun. earlier in that class we shot a number of sports from trail running to white water kayaking to mountain biking. Other less interesting classes form this semester include web design, nature and landscape, business and portfolio. the Nature and Landscape wouldn't be so bad but most of the nature that we have shot has been un-natural nature ( caged/mentally unstable parrots and a hothouse filled with butterflies). that being said we did spend a fantastic day where we visited Mitlnach Island, a breeding ground for a number of birds and sea mammals. That day was topped off with four orcas that made for a great treat. As for the web class my pages are all hideous and the business class, well that what I am currently putting off, so I have nothing to share from them.