365/89 – 5th Anniversary, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Had my fifth anniversary at work this month. They got me this very cool coffee cup.

365/88 – Treasure Chest Bear, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Yesterday we had an off-site company meeting. It was good as always. We did a couple of team building deals and one was a treasure hunt / scavenger hunt exercise. We got to wear pirates hats and carry around a parrot on a stick. We had a list of 40 items that we were supposed to get pictures of like a fire truck, a stranger, a dog, a pink flamingo, etc. Each photo had to have at least one team member (there were 4 on each team) wearing the pirate (paper) hat and holding the parrot on a stick. We did this for an hour during a week day and downtown during this town’s rodeo week. I was a blast and the team I was on won. We found 39 of 40 items. A bear and a treasure chest were both on the list.

365-87 – Old Tone, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Working with 2 lights tonight and ended up going too underexposed and found out that, yes, more rather than less light. I did some fixing (can’t really do that much yet) and then made lightly saturated sepia look.
The lighting was with the Canon 430EX II high camera right at 1/4 power bounced with the umbrella and fired with the RadioPopper JrX and the Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power shot though a white umbrella and fired with the Sonia Optical Slave. It was all done at 1/200 at f8 and ISO 100. Should have been ISO 200 and then maybe the lighting would have been enough.

365/86 – Rosebud, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

I put the fifty on this evening and went to my Dad’s. The flowers are starting to bloom but the rain this week slowed the process a bit. This is one of the early rosebud and in a week or two there will be plenty. I played around a bit (or a lot) with Topaz Adjust for this look.

365/85 – Whatever, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Bad lighting. The good thing about mistakes is if you can learn then they are not wasted. Got a shadow where I didn’t need or want one. Hopefully I’ll not make that mistake again.
The lighting info:
Canon 430EX II high camera right fired @ 1/2 bounced off an umbrella with the RadioPopper JrX and my Vivitar @ 1/4 power low camera left fired with the Sonia optical slave with the Honl snoot opened for a reflector.

365/84 – Dogwood, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

It’s spring time and the trees are blooming.

365/83 – Green Eyes, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

A shot with auto ISO that went to 6400. Kind of high.

Hackin 2, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

More afternoon hackin. Love the light in these shots. The afternoon sun and the bounce off the inside corner of the white brick building.

365/82 – Hackin, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

The guys doing thier 3:30pm thing and look at me – using my 55-250mm lens.

365/82 – RadioPoppers Again, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

First time with the RadioPoppers on the new 550D. Work fine. Of course we knew they would.
Canon 430EX II high camera left bounced with a white brella fired at 1/2 power with the Radiopopper. f8 at 1/200.