Holiday Wishes

Hope all my M3 friends have a great Christmas and are prepared to celebrate a fun new year with our 5D Mark III cameras capturing great images and having a good time.  Looking forward to getting together on the 17th to learn more about our cameras.  We'll miss you Ronal, but hope that next retirement isn't too far away.  

By the way, other than the typed words and a little levels adjustment, there wasn't any Photoshopping in this image.  Just a dark room, a red and green laser pointer, and a 5D Mark III set on bulb with an aperture of 22.

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Putting the Camera Through the Paces: My First Effort

So, the camera arrived this afternoon while I was in the middle of decorating my tree.  I hurriedly finished with the tree, then took the camera to my office to acquaint myself with the features.  With Mike's suggested e-book in hand, I worked through several chapters.  

Long story short, I went back downstairs and tried my first 'for real' shot.  This is an in-camera HDR, using one of the cool 60-some focal points, and an unbelievably high ISO, and of-course, hand held.  

I'm in love! 

Dickens of a Christmas -- and one more

In all of my years of living in Nashville, this is my first time to venture to Dickens of a Christmas in Franklin --  Loved the "junior" fiddler and the harpist was a wonderful delight.  My Bobbies got distracted as they had just caught a jail escaper.  Mike, I like your background better with the Bobbies.

On the way home stopped at the Natchez Bridge and did an in-camera HDR.

Dickens of a Christmas

A fun shoot yesterday.  Perfect day for taking photographs, no rain but cloudy.  Given the crowds, I did a little photoshopping to isolate some of the people.  Some of you may know the lady in the last pic.  I didn't.  She apparently writes and illustrates books for children.  I was blown away with her illustrations.