More peanut butter

I totally know that I already did a picture like this, but I made a ton of these peanut butter popcorn balls for a fundraiser tomorrow, and didn't have time to take a picture of anything else!  It was a very sweet evening!  I wanted to get more detail and texture on the popcorn, which is why I chose a tight aperture at f/14.  On a side note, I think peanut butter is now tied with my pets for the greatest number of blog posts this year! 

Nikon D90

Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6

30mm - ISO 400

1/14s - f/14

Nikon SB900

1/8 power - 30mm zoom

Bounced up and backwards

Midnight snack

This chocolate bar might be worth getting up at midnight to enjoy!  I liked the way the gold foil glows in the dim light.

Nikon D90

Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6

58mm - ISO 200

1/20s - f/5.6

Snow?

I had been hearing all day about the 1-2" of snow that we are supposed to get today, so I had hoped to get some photos of the white stuff tonight.  However, anyone living in Topeka knows that at least by 10 p.m., we hadn't seen a flake.  I headed out to take a long exposure of the "snow sky" to encourage it along.  I wasn't excited about the results, so was playing around with the photo a bit in Nikon's editing software.  I accidentally hit the wrong button, with some surprising results.

For all you Nikon shooters out there, the top picture was created using the D-Lighting HS tool in View NX.  It is basically a shadow-recovery tool.  Here is a good article about the basics.  The bottom picture was the picture prior to the D-Lighting "snow."  Pretty interesting effect.  It only affects the shadowed area of the photo - which you can see if you look at the tree trunks.  Pretty interesting.

So, not a good picture today, but an interesting discovery nonetheless.

Nikon D90

Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6

18mm - ISO 200

20s - f/5.6

Autumn blaze

The title of this post sounds like the name of a soap opera heroine, but all I have for you today is a pretty picture of a fiery red bush. I wish I had spent more time on the framing so you could see more of the green grass in the background, but I was in a hurry.  I'll keep an eye out for a passing soap star tomorrow...

Canon 5D Mark II

Canon 24-105mm f/4

105mm - ISO 200

1/500s - f/4

Happy Halloween!

We had a driveway Halloween party tonight at a friend's house.  The weather was perfect, the kids were cute and the sugar was prevalent.  Now it is off to bed to sleep off the sugar coma!

Nikon D90

Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6

Left: 48mm - ISO 200

1/25s - f/4.8

Bottom: 22mm - ISO 200

1/4s - f/3.8

Nikon SB900

Didn't record settings (oops!)

Bounced up with diffuser

Trick or treat?

Treat, of course!  Who really wants to be tricked?  I made some peanut butter popcorn treats for our Halloween party tomorrow night.  The real trick will be to see that they survive the next 20 or so hours until the party!

Nikon D90

Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.58-5.6

90mm - ISO 200

1/40s - f/18

Nikon SB900

1/2 power

90mm zoom

Bounced up and to the left

Origin unknown

I have no idea what kind of bush this is, but it looked really cool in the fading light of today.

Nikon D90
Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6
98mm - ISO 200
1/20s - f/5.6