Here is a sample of graduation announcement card I just made for Caleb Gaines, class of 2010. These are available for purchase with a minimum order of 24 cards. Please contact me for pricing details based on your needs. These can also be sent out as open house invitations with detailed information printed on them.  These cards are custom designed to suit the senior, to match his/her personality or interests. Thanks.

I tried the panorama technique on some portraits this weekend. Using my 70-200mm VR2 lens zoomed to 200mm at f/2.8, I first focused on Sabi and set the D700 to manual focus. Exposure was based on exposing her properly. Then, I started the panorama series, by taking her pictures first and then kept taking pictures in rows from bottom to the top. At 200mm and f/2.8, the depth of field is very narrow. When composed into a panoramic image, these final images simulate the depth of field of a lens around f/0.8, which for a 200mm lens is very hard to engineer, if not impossible and terribly expensive. I am fairly happy with my first attempt at panoramic portraits.

Photo Info: Natural Light, D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm VR2, ISO 200, f/2.8 @ 1/320th.

Location: University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle, WA.

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Photo Info: Natural Light, D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm VR2, ISO 200, f/2.8 @ 1/320th.

Location: University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle, WA.

Temperatures are getting a bit mild in the Seattle area. This weekend was really great! Nice weather, we went for a picnic. Some of the flowers we had planted a while back are blooming. Lots of other flowers are starting to bloom. I miss my macro lens… perhaps I should get another one… It’s just not the same shooting flowers with a telephoto zoom, no matter how good the lens is. This was from our garden, taken today.

Photo Info: Natural Light, D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm VR2 at 200mm, ISO 280, f/5.0 @ 1/250th