This pretty much sums up our weekend.

I’ve become fascinated with capturing flames. This time I decided to experiment with shutter speeds and f-stops to both freeze the flame as much as possible while preserving depth of field. Took about 60 shots and some of them are quite interesting (more to come), especially at the higher shutter speeds (1/2000th to 1/4000th of a second). Haven’t decided yet whether the difference between what you normally see looking at a campfire and what the camera captures is because your eyes average the flames or the camera fails to capture portions of the flames. It’s probably a bit of both.

When I first looked at the pictures on my computer at home I was disappointed with what appeared to be a fair amount of noise in the black areas of the pictures, but for some reason it disappears once I process the raw files into jpegs. This shot was taken at 1/2000th of second, F/5.6, ISO 800, with a Canon EF50mm f/1.8.

Back from another weekend of camping. This shot of the Willow River (which is starting to run a bit low) was taken behind our campsite, down a mosquito infested path, and I endured a fair amount of bites on areas of my body not covered (hands, neck, and face).