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Low Light(ning)

As I was driving back home from Orlando late on monday night I kept seeing heat lightning strikes in the sky. The lightning continued most of the trip, I did not have my camera with me so I just kept watching and hoping that the lighting would continue until I got back home. It did and I got my camera and my tripod and took these pictures. All pictures took with a long exposure shutter of 15 sec or over.

 Most of the time the lightning just lit up the clouds but occasionally you could see actual lightning bolts.

Golf Tournament

These are a few of the pictures I took at the annual St. Augustine Amateur. The tournament took place October 22-24.

Environmental Portraits

I took my environmental portraits of Jonathan Seletyn. He is a flight instructor for Florida Aviation located at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport.

 "I've been instructing for about 3 years" Jonathan Seletyn, 25, of St. Augustine, FL

Jonathan in the cockpit of Cessna 172S

Jonathan in front of a Piper Cherokee Warrior PA28-161

According to Jonathan he has students that come in weekly and "also have international students who come in for a month." The international students fly twice a day and are able to get there pilot license in that one month.

Movement

For this assignment I needed to take one picture with frozen motion and one with blurred motion. I thought taking two pictures of the same thing would show how much the two techniques can differ. The first picture, frozen motion, was taken at f2.8, with 1/8000 shutter and iso of 320. The second picture, blurred motion was taken at f22, with 1/40 shutter and iso 100.

    

Robert Cantu, 23, of St. Augustine riding his motorcycle at Vilano Beach.

I added this picture I took last year because it was the first time I tried this technique. It was taken at Volusia Speedway in Barberville, FL. It was a lot harder then I thought it would be and out of about 100 pictures only one came out looking ok.

Jump

Street Photography

While walking along St. George street looking for something interesting to photograph I found Jack and Pinks. They're 17 and live in St. Augustine right now although it sounds and looks like they don't stay in one place to long. Jack was playing guitar and singing lead and Pinks was singing back up. I enjoyed their music especially one song called "I've got Poor Hygiene" that had lyrics like "This week I drank beer more times then I brushed my teeth." They were both very nice and I'm glad I was able to get some pictures.