Seattle at Night

Here are some beautiful shots of Seattle's skyline taken from Queen Anne Hill.

Gasworks Park

When we went to Seattle Timmy also took me to Gasworks Park. I've never been there before, and it was really fun to see. Unfortunately some goonies put a fence up around the place, so they kind of take away from the industrial beauty of the place. Oh well, it is what it is.

Solarscapes Photography

So I thought I'd share the news with y'all...I just applied for a sole proprietor business license for photography! My old boss back at Madison Home wanted me to get one so we could continue doing business. I looked into it and found it to be a viable option, so there you go! Keep your fingers crossed...I'm not sure when they'll tell me whether or not I've been approved. If I am approved I may be changing the name of this blog, and I may get a domain for an actual website because...I'll be attributing the name Solarscapes Photography to my work, hence the name of this post. Do you like it? I thought it was a unique name since I take mostly landscape pictures. No one else has it, though they do have Sunscapes, Lightscapes, Pixels, Shutter Bug, and about anything else you can think of that has to do with photography. So I got creative and used a synonym. The only place with "solarscapes" in the title is a solar panel company, and they don't have "photography" in their name. Yay! I'll keep y'all updated on my status as time goes on.

Seattle

In honor of the Seahawks winning the NFC Championship and heading to the 2014 Super Bowl (XLVII?) I am doing a post on Seattle. That and Tim took me driving around Seattle yesterday. We went several places-Gasworks Park, Freemont to see the troll, and Queen Anne Hill to overlook the city. I'm only posting photos of the latter because that's where 12th Man was featured the most. Naturally. Welp, here's my beautiful blue and green city!

50mm Macro Lens

Yay for my macro lens! I think I told you Timmy bought one for me for Christmas. If so, this is an in-your-face reminder. If not, it's just in-your-face. I want to show you how much closer a macro lens can get to objects than my other 2 lenses. Wanna see? Ok! Now I used my Seahawks button made for me by a girl at work. The Hawks play the 49ers on Sunday for the NFC Championship game, and we're gonna win! We have so much more pride. All of Seattle and its surrounding suburbs are painted up in blue and green and 12th man. Sorry, it's infectious. The Texans are as ever my #1 team, but since they've put themselves way out of contention for anything but first draft picking status I'm for the hawks all the way this year. And here is the difference between each lens. All of these were taken as zoomed in and as close as possible. No cropping was done. Also notice the decreasing depth of field (increased blurriness surrounding the in-focus area) as you go from top to bottom.

75-300mm telephoto zoom lens from 4.9ft away

 18-55 kit lens from 0.8ft away

 50mm macro lens from 0.749ft away

Canon EOS 1

At work we took in a camera that needed testing to see if it would work. You see, it's easy to test a digital camera-you can immediately see the results. The EOS 1 is a 35mm camera, so we have to make sure it doesn't either under or overexpose the film. I grabbed an 85mm 1.2 lens, meaning the depth of field is super shallow. 1.2 isn't an aperture that's available on most lenses. Well, the film was underexposed, but I got to keep the film. I don't have a great scanner for film. It does well with images, but there isn't a separate scanning setting for film. I made do. I started it before I left for work and scanned at the highest resolution possible...something around 7000 or something. It took a few hours but I was able to scan the film well enough to edit full-sized images. I edited them a bit in photoshop to get them back to normal coloring. They're terrible quality, but I actually like the results. It's art!