Nic Temple @ 14mm

If you are in the Ashland area on April 20, you can hear Nic play at the Duo piano recital: Nic Temple & Jon Hays.

April 10th, 2013 | Tags: music, Nic Temple, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sou performances | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on More pics from Nic Temple’s piano recital

Sarah Mues of FatherDoug

Today’s pics are from last Friday night. Tonight at Club 66 the audience, including me, will be treated to some traveling metal. Come on out to hear Facinorous. They are supposed to start at 8 p.m., and I hope they do as I have to wake up early tomorrow morning.

FatherDoug @ Club 66 4/5/13

I wasn’t able to stick around for Twice Born Gypsies after FatherDoug on Friday night as the show started late, and I couldn’t stay past about 11:30. Hopefully they will play Club 66 again soon, and next time it would be nice if they begin before the next day does.

April 9th, 2013 | Tags: club 66, concert photography, fatherdoug, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600 | Category: only in ashland, people, places | Comments Off on FatherDoug @ Club 66

Lucy Walker – Rogue Award Winner

#AIFF13 Andrew Mudge – The Forgotten Kingdom (Anne Ashbey – Executive Director of Ashland Independent Film Festival)

Historic Ashland Armory all fancied up for the Awards Celebration

My favorite short film of the festival, Slomo (Josh Izenberg)

Song E Kim – Bite of the Tail

April 8th, 2013 | Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, bokeh, lucy walker, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600 | Category: only in ashland, people, places | Comments Off on 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival Winners

Irene Barrantes diving catch

Most of my photomerges are in the three-to-five photo range. Sometimes they are just two photos. However, I like to try new things. So at last Saturday’s SOU softball game I set my D600 to “Ch” for continuous high speed shooting. The sky was overcast so I went with 1/4000, f/8, ISO-2000. If it was sunnier I would have went with something like 1/4000, f/11, ISO-800. Next time if it is overcast I think I will try something more along the lines of 1/1000, f/10, ISO-1600.

Anyway, I then focused on the batter at 70mm from behind first base. When she connected I immediately began firing as I turned my camera toward right field. Twenty eight photos (and about four seconds) later I was done shooting. The photomerged result can be seen above. After the photomerge my file size was almost 3 GB for what had become a single photo! I resized it and did a bit of editing to get it down to about the 1 MB image I uploaded. Click on the photo for the more detailed 1 MB version and to have it fill your screen.

April 8th, 2013 | Tags: grizzly peak, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, Nikon D600, photoshop photomerge, softball, Southern Oregon University, sports photography | Category: only in ashland, people, places | Comments Off on 28 photo photomerge

Lucy Walker discusses The Crash Reel with the Historic Ashland Armory audience

#AIFF13 Rogue Award Winner Lucy Walker is my favorite movie maker. I have only seen The Crash Reel and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, but now I must see everything else she has done.

Ashland Independent Film Festival 2013 Rogue Award Winner Lucy Walker

April 7th, 2013 | Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, lucy walker, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600 | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments (1)

Nic Temple performing on 4/4/13 in the SOU Music Recital Hall

April 7th, 2013 | Tags: campus, music, Nic Temple, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University | Category: only in ashland, people, places | Comments Off on Nic Temple Honors Piano Recital

AIFF – Ashland Independent Film Festival

The last couple days have been pretty crazy photo wise. I probably have about 1,000 keepers from about ten different events (including not only the AIFF events but also Nic Temple’s piano recital, SOU softball doubleheader, some wild weather panoramas, and Father Doug at Club 66). Now I just need to sort through them all…

April 6th, 2013 | Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, signs | Category: only in ashland | Comments Off on 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival

I had a delicious lunch at Club 66 yesterday featuring this ham and pepperoncini sandwich.

Tuesday night (4/9/13), metal will once again be featured at Club 66. Facinorous, a deliciously evil metal band from California, will be hitting the Club 66 stage.

April 5th, 2013 | Tags: club 66, food, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600 | Category: only in ashland | Comments Off on Club 66 – Ashland, Oregon (music venue, restaurant)

Brandi Carlile @ Britt

Britt announced their 2013 lineup last night. Included in the mix is Brandi Carlile (just after I return from my summer in Asia). The date is August 21, 2013. I will almost certainly be there. Tickets go on sale for members next week and for the general public in May.

Other shows I may go to Britt for this summer include Chris Isaak, Tegan & Sara, The Doobie Brothers, REO Speedwagon, and Jake Shimabukuro.

April 4th, 2013 | Tags: brandi carlile, britt festivals, concert photography, nikon d7000 | Category: outside of ashland, people, places | Comments Off on Brandi Carlile coming back to Britt Festivals for a sixth appearance