Tag: Long Exposure

  • Another Houston Weekend Morning

    Another Houston Weekend Morning

    I’ve been wanting to use the tele lens a little more lately. I really like my standard zoom for capturing the whole scene, but I need more practice on picking out the details that catch my eye.

    It was a cloudy morning, but the ceiling cleared the skyscrapers considerably. The City Hall building was lit in blue, and we could see the lights on the clouds above the city.

    After taking some shots of the city, I stopped by a transit station, and the bust station structure with the deep blue clouds caught my eye.

    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 100-400mm GM | 158mm | ISO 100 | f/5 | 5.0 sec
    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 100-400mm GM | 215mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 5.0 sec
    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 100-400mm GM | 400mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 5.0 sec
    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 100-400mm GM | 400mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 5.0 sec
    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 100-400mm GM | 100mm | ISO 100 | f/4.5 | 2.0 sec
    Sony Alpha 7R IV | Sony 24-70mm GM II | 43mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 2.0 sec
  • Port Tampa Bay at Night

    Port Tampa Bay at Night

    These photos were taken over a decade ago on my old Olympus 4/3rd Digital SLR. This was taken in December of 2009. The wind speed had gone down with the sun, but some fog was appearing over the land where it was cooler than over the water.

    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 42mm | ISO 1600 | f/5.6 | 1/5 sec
    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 42mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 2.5 sec
    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 42mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 1.6 sec
    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 42mm | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 0.8 sec
    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 14mm | ISO 100 | f/4 | 1.3 sec
    Olympus E-620 | Olympus 14-42mm | 14mm | ISO 100 | f/4 | 1.3 sec
  • Another rainy morning

    Another rainy morning

    I was woken on this morning by a thunderstorm, and thought, well I’m not going to get any pictures today. I pulled up the radar, and it was a smaller storm moving through pretty quickly. Then I thought, this might actually work out for me.

    In typical Houston fashion, I tried running to one of my favorite spots only to find the streets had been closed. What made that more excruciating was that on the way, I loved the view, but I lost another 10 minutes trying to work around the road closures. When the light is changing quickly, that 10 minutes feels like a lifetime.

    I didn’t park where I really should have, and was rushing to avoid any problems with the place I did park. It ended up working out because the light I wanted had passed anyways, but below are three shots from this morning.

    Sony A7R IV | Sony 24-70 GMII | 35mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 3.2 sec
    Sony A7R IV | Sony 24-70mm GMII | 70mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1 sec
    Sony A7R IV | Sony 24-70mm GM II | ISO 100 | f/11 | 15 sec