Recently I was at a local "car show" called Cars & Coffee. I was standing by the side of the road shooting some images as the beautiful cars and bikes sped by. First is an Aprillia motorcycle, next is a Ferrari.

Notice how the background is racing by and the especially the wheels are "moving". Capturing objects in motion can be somewhat easy if the shutter speed is high. However the wheels and the background usually ends up static. This tends to make your objects appear as if there is no movement.

The trick is to keep the shutter speed slow enough to allow the wheels and background to create motion. The difficult part and which requires lots of practice is following the object to minimize blur. The bike and the Ferrari we not moving all that fast, so I was able to obtain pretty sharp images.


Nikon D200 70-200mm at 150mm f/6.3 for 1/100 sec ISO 400


Nikon D200 70-200mm at 135mm f/5.6 for 1/160 sec ISO 400

Thought I'd post an example of the capability to convert a color image to B&W via the computer. As a rule I always shoot in color with my Nikon D200. My camera does have the option of capturing the image in B&W. However, I am simply not using every pixel available. This camera wasn't cheap, I would like to use every pixel available! So, I just convert in the post processing. This image was actually taken with my older D70.





Nikon D70 18-70mm at 35mm f/11 for 1/80 sec

Howdy visitors

I just finished building and configuring a web server which happens to host whittierphotography.com. The previous server was a Dell dual Xeon at 400MHz each and around a 1GB of ram. Was purchased in early 2000.

This new server is a Dual Quad Core Xeon at 2GHz and 4GB of ram. Crazy thing is that it probably cost less than half the price of its predecessor. Building it my self decreased costs as well.

If this is your first visit, obviously you won't notice anything different. Even previous visitors will not notice much. Just zippier..

Happy Viewing.

This is an early photo from a few years ago. Bought this rose from a girl in a parking lot. Brought the rose home and it sat by the kitchen window for a day or so. From what I have seen, near perfect roses are difficult to come by. They often have at least one problem petal. This one was great. Anyways, originally a red rose, I altered the color in Photoshop. Came out nice.



Nikon D70 18-70mm at 70mm f/8 for 1/200 sec

Today I hiked along a trail in an area called Round Canyon within the Irvine, CA city limits. I was in a group of fifteen people and a guide. This is the first time I have been in this area, however the conservancy has been hosting these photography hikes since December of last year. Just two months after the fires. I wish I would have know about this then!

Here are a couple pictures from the hike.



The image on the left
Nikon D200 70-200mm at 70mm f/5.6 for 1/1000 sec
The image on the right
Nikon D200 70-200mm at 70mm f/5.6 for 1/320 sec