greeness photo: February 2005

Home Light 回家的灯

灯光微弱而温暖，回家的灯．
Faint but warm light, that lightens the way home.

Thawy icicle 融冰

Shenandoah National Park

official site
national-park.com
shenandoahconnection.com

Great Smoky Moutain

Official site
national-park.com
Cool Photo Galleries Link

Photography
Great Smoky Mountains by Chris Nicholson
Places to photograph

upitt CSSA Chinese New Year celebration

@WPA

Spring Festival Celebration Party

Here comes our Chinese New Year! CMU CSSA held this celebration party at University Center Rangos Room.
Inside room, hand-held, ISO 1600, sigma 70-300 f/4.5-5.6, 1/40s, no flash.
听到了《男儿当自强》和《喜洋洋》，呵呵，挺不错。

京胡，二胡？(Beijing Opera fiddle?two-stringed Chinese fiddle?)

Drummer. 鼓手

Game winner. 游戏发奖。

A snowboard girl.

I intentionally keep the subject simple and have the subject heading into the center of the frame, leaving more space to make us think. The pity is that the subject is not sharp enough, and the light is poor. I have no good idea so I change it into black and white.
Okay, I have to go to sleep. Tomorrow, another half of the mid-term, weired ...

Wish List ...... :O

(price from adorama Feb.8,2005)

Only dreams ... Now just take full use of my present lens, improving skills
- D70 outfit lens 18-70mm f/3.5+ ED-IF AF-S
- nikkor 50mm f/1.8
- sigma 70-300mmm f/4-5.6

Wish List ...... :O

*Prime-Nikkors
16mm f/2.8D AF fisheye ($599.95)
35mm f/2D AF ($259.95)
85mm f/1.4D IF AF ($854.95)
300mm f/2.8D ED-IF II AF-S Telephoto ($4000.00!!!!!!!)
500mm f/4D IF-ED AF-S II ($5,899.95!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
TC-14E II 1.4x AF-S AF-I teleconverter ($329.95)

*Micro
60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor ($339.95)
105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor ($539.95)

*Zoom-Nikkors
17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S ($1,349.95)
28-70mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S ($1,324.95)
80-200mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S ($1,399.99)

7Springs, GSA ski trip -- Part II. on the slope

D70, Sigma 70-300 lens. spot metering, shutter prioity, exposure compensation +0.3~ +1.7, ISO 400~640, no flash. Since this is a slow lens (f/5.6 at 300mm) while I wanted to freeze the motion of the high-speed skier, I had to choose a high shutter speed above 1/400 sec. However, most pictures were taken on the darker side of the mountain, the light was not enough at all. I had to increase the sensitivity to above ISO 400. Under such a condition, I got some blur and a lot of noticeable noise on the image. I did not use a tripod, so maybe some of the blur came from the shaking of my hands. How to get right focus on the fast moving skiers is also a problem with me.

Snowboard guys. Toeside ... (hehe, learned that word from Guo, Wei)

Heelside ...

Skiers ...

hehe, yellow jacket is really eye-catching.

This friendly guy was resting on the slope. He found I was shooting him, then he smiled at me, and I waved back. :)

A father was helping his son to put his boots onto the ski.

It seemed someone got injured. Best wishes!

7Springs, GSA ski trip -- Part I. in the practice field

We went to ski at 7springs this Saturday. It was a warm and beautiful day. Sunshine, fresh air and friendly folks join together to bring me a wonderful skiing experience time. I began with a green lane and spent most of the time on the two blue lanes on the north of mountain. Listening to the music with an iPod shuffle, scarf flying around my neck, I felt quite good skiing down the slope. It was really cool though I still rolled over and over, :)

I returned the boots stuff at 4:30 pm and walked up the slope shooting pictures. Those pictures are in Part II -- on the slope of today's post .

The following were taken in the practice field near the lodge. It was about 5:00 pm. I set the sensitivity to ISO 800~1600, and shutter speed 1/400 sec, to get more nature light and to avoid the shake coming from my hand-held camera. Unfortunately, noises were huge appearing everywhere on the image. I turned to NeatImage for help. You can find the latest version of noise profile for Nikon digital camera here. It seems that I can only be confident with this cheap lens in light environment.
Here is a link to how to build a set of profiles for different camera modes with NeatImage.