2014 Last Show

2014 went out with a bang.......well, in the sky over my neighborhood. This is what I saw as I started the car to take my wife to work yesterday morning. I grabbed the Sony and let it rip on P so a little grainy but I got it.



It was pretty cool to see. These are straight out of the camera. The only thing done to them in PS was to reduce the size for the web page.
I might go back and work them a little but what you see is pretty much what I saw that morning.

I also went to the Coffee Scene a local shop and stayed awhile but really only made one that I liked.



Then I went to the Mall.....yeah I know, but it is where the people are in this town. I stayed several hours and got some shots. Not real sure about them yet. I will come back to them. I have a series that maybe will turn out to be a theme, or a short story, but will have to see how they develop. I will let them rest and stew awhile.

My New SONY ILCE-5100 Camera

I wanted to show off my new SONY ILCE-5100 Camera that I won in the Photo Concentrate Black Friday Ultimate Camer Giveaway. I am very pleased with this camera.I have only used it a short time, but I love it. I already said all this in an earlier post so I will get right to the pictures:



Here is the camera and the box. You can see it is very compact.This is a high resolution with 24MP APS-C sensor, Instant sharing via smartphone with Wi-Fi® and NFC1, Ultra-fast auto focus with 179 AF points and 6Fps, Contains- Rechargeable Battery (NP-FW50) AC Charger (AC-UB10) Lens cap Shoulder strap Micro USB cable,Mirrorless Camera WOW!!!

It came with the E3.5-5.6/PZ16-50mm OSS Lens.

The back boasts a 3 inch screen, a dial to control the functions, menu button, and the "?" button gives shooting tips.

Here you can see the 180 Flip screen. This makes selfies very easy.You can also see the light reflecting there, this from the ring light that I am using.

Now for my Christmas present this year. I needed good flash. I have a cheap flash that works so so, it is manual and does not talk to my T3I. So this year I told my beautiful Bride that all that I wanted was a Canon 430EX II flash. So she told me to go ahead and order it, so I got exactly what I wanted. WellI did and it arrived the same day my Sony did. Talk about a great day to get the mail.







This is the ring light setup I am using, it is a Newly and works pretty good.


I will post more about the camera and the flash as I become more familiar with them.Thanks again to Rob and Lauren of PhotoConcentrate for this contest. Check them out they some great classes.