Hunter Ice Festival – Part 2
Jan 18, 2010 Photography
The Hunter Ice Festival is a 3 day festival that starts on a Friday night with lots of carving, setting out sponsor’s sculptures and lots more. While I was playing with the wireless Speedlight flash system on the first night I caught this little boy looking up at one of the main sculptures in amazement. I only got two shots off and thankfully one of them turned out since the father was telling the boy to step back.
On Saturday you get to see more of the tools that get used while carving these sculptures. Anything from angle grinders, chainsaws, picks, chisels, dremel tools, custom made jigs and cloths irons get used.
Some people use templates made out of paper to help start the carving process.
While others just have a drawing and go at the ice just by looking at it.
When doing night photography with a flash you can easily tell where many of the different blocks are.
More photos in the gallery at: Hunter Ice Festival, Niles Michigan
Tags: Canon 40D, Canon 7D, Festivals, Michigan, Photography, Winter
Canon 7D is here!
Jan 11, 2010 Photography
So I can’t wait to continue learning all of the different features of my Canon 7D. I purchased it as an upgrade to my Canon 40D. Not exactly sure what I am going to do with the 40D just yet. I may keep it around so if I do different photo shoots I can just grab a different camera instead of changing lenses. What I can say though is that I was a little worried when it arrived. The UPS man showed me this hole in the side of the main delivery box and asked me to check the contents to see if it was damaged. Thankfully B&H packed it with enough air pockets that nothing was damaged.
There will be several future postings on what I like/dislike about the 7D as compared to my 40D.
Tags: Cameras, Canon 40D, Canon 7D, Photography