Canadian International Autoshow

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
Originally uploaded by null photography.

I finally got to go this weekend! I went with my dad and uncle and we spent about 4.5 hours walking around the whole place. In total i got around 280 pictures, and all on a single battery! It took me almost two 1gb cards to get all those pictures though. Luckily I brought my dad's flash cards as backups, even though I didn't need them.
This picture is from the end of our little tour but I think it is one of the best shots I got today. The hardest cars to shoot were the black ones, especially when they were in bad lighting. I had to shot 1/20s and 1/10s which resulted in alot of blurry pics. I used my external flash on the dark cars but it seemed to only make things worse because since the cars were so polished I just got alot of glare from the flash bouncing back. I think I have a few decent shots, but nothing like what I would have liked to get.
There were so many cars but not all of them nice, especially in the Ford section. I just really don't care for Mustangs and the like. And besides the Mustang and the GT, there isn't much else to look at there. Although it was nice to see the Ford GT #99 for Wayne Gretzky, with his signature on it. I'll have that picture up later on when I have more time.

Booth Babes

Booth Babes
Originally uploaded by null photography.

I love having a camera :)

Both babes are always willing to pose for a picture, and I'm always willing to take that picture, lol.
These two lovely women were at the Canadian International Autoshow.

Canadian International Auto Show this weekend!
The show has been on all week but I've been waiting for my dad and uncle to have time off to go with me. I'm going to bring my D70s with my 18-70mm lens and my dad is going to bring his F100. I don't think my 70-300mm lens will be of much use in such small quarters so I'm going to leave it behind.
We're going Saturday and then I'm leaving for Ottawa on Sunday. I'll try and get a couple of the best shots up on my flickr page on Saturday night. After that I'm not too sure when I'll have time for the other photos becuase next week is midterm week :(

Exposure Practise

Patrick Roy
Originally uploaded by null photography.

My dad has recently purchased a book on getting the correct exposure during photography. I just finished reading the book a couple days ago and I wanted to put some of my new found knowledge to the test. I used to always shoot on aperture-priority and have it set all the way to f/4 or f/5.6, after reading the book they suggest if the subject(s) and background are all roughly the same distance than to shoot at f/8 and f/11 because they give much better contrast and quality. And I think this photo came out alot better because of this. Also I would shoot with an auto ISO so if the camera though I would be too over or under exposed it would adjust my ISO to compensate. Usually it would set it alot higher and I would get grainier images. Now if I have the time I'm going to turn that off and shoot at ISO 200 or 400 which I did for this photo. The camera would have set it to ISO 1200 or higher because it was so dark. I also tried out using manual mode, it works good when I have time to play around but when I'm out and about I think I will stick to the A, S, and P settings.

Walk with the Birds

Bird in Hand
Originally uploaded by null photography.

Earlier this week I went with my family to a local trail and took some pictures of some birds.
There were a lot of chickadees flying around looking for some food. They didn't like what was on the ground, so they really took to our food.
I got some good shots of the birds and of my family feeding the birds. I also got some nice shots of nature type stuff.
A day or two later me and my dad went on our own to an even closer trail. We had never been on it so we weren't sure what to expect. The sun was off and on and it was crazy cold, luckily I was smart enough to bundle up real well. We didn't get to see to much, we were hoping for some animals or birds but I guess they were too smart to come out in the cold weather. We heard alot of birds but just couldn't find them. So I only got a few good shots out of the trip.
Because of all the branches between me and my shots of birds I got to really try out my manual focusing skills. My camera was just going crazy on auto focus, trying to focus and every level of branches and birds and sky.
Hoping to get out in warmer weather to get better shots of different birds and animals.

Ice Ship at Winterlude

Ice Ship
Originally uploaded by null photography.

So I actually got to go to Winterlude over the weekend and the weather was perfect. Just what I wanted. Some of the sculptures were melting but most were intact and still in good shape. I got alot of shots, filled up one of my 1GB cards (about 151 RAW photos) and of those I got about 20-30 really good shots. So now I'm just going through them and editing in photoshop. I only have like 7 or so done. I'm really liking the black and white on the ice. It makes the edges and detail stand out so much more. I hope to have many more photos up soon.
I know ice floats, but do you think that this boat would float?

I'm going to try and head down to see the Ice Sculptures at the Casino for Winterlude. They said on the news today that the rain was ruining the sculptures but hopefully they will be fixed for when I go for a visit. I'm not sure what I would like more, pictures of them during the day or at night when they are all light up. Then next week I will go and get some shots of the snow sculptures, weather permitting.