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Shooting Star

Joe Lencioni — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:13:38 +0000

ƒ/16.0, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

This photo of a Lucky Charms marshmallow is part of an ongoing project featuring cereal pieces.

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Jerry Nowell

Joe Lencioni — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:47:56 +0000

ƒ/18.0, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

My friend and co-worker, Jerry Nowell.

He needed a photo for some work related things and I thought we may as well have a little fun while we were at it. I took this with the fisheye lens in the server room at Gustavus right in front of a rack that has a bunch of crazy cables coming out everywhere.

Overall I’m very happy with this shot–although I would have liked to have done it a bit differently. Unfortunately, we were in a very tight location so I forced to use such a wide lens and couldn’t get my lights quite where I would have liked them to be.

This shot was lit with two strobes, one on the right, directly aimed at Jerry’s face and the cables, and the other on the left, bounced into a silver umbrella.

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Night barn

Joe Lencioni — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:16:59 +0000

ƒ/6.3, 298 s, 100 ISO

Jerry and I went out, exploring the southern Minnesota countryside and looking for good nighttime subjects.

We drove for what seemed like a couple of hours and didn’t come across anything that really grabbed us. About to give up, we headed toward home. Suddenly, we drove past this barn and in an instant were out of the car with our photo gear pointed at the barn. Needless to say, we were quite excited about the structure.

We spent an hour or two at this site until Jerry finished his roll in his old school Yashica–he wanted to see how they turned out first thing the next morning and figured he would take the opportunity to experiment a bit with shutter speeds and apertures. He posted a few of the good ones.

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Paul Fraser

Joe Lencioni — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:03:38 +0000

ƒ/2.8, 1/800 s, 100 ISO

This weekend I had the opportunity to take some portraits of my friend, and regular reader, Paul Fraser. It was a lot of fun.

He’s a budding composer and needed some professional portraits to help amp up his public image. So, Paul, his Wurlitzer, and I went to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with that giant cherry on a spoon sculpture.

I’m a cloud person. I’ve known for a couple of years now that I am obsessed with clouds. I could spend hours staring at them, and I do all the time. So, when I was shooting Paul up against a lush green backdrop and I noticed that the clouds were looking really cool, I whipped out the fisheye lens, got uncomfortably close, and took this shot. I hope you like it.

Full Moon

There’s a full moon tonight that Jerry and I will be taking full advantage of. We don’t have much of a plan for locations, but I have a feeling that it’s going to be legendary.

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The Lonely Tree

Joe Lencioni — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:08:26 +0000

Kasota Prairie, Kasota, MN ƒ/7.1, 244 s, 100 ISO

It was great to get out and take some night shots–I honestly can’t remember the last full moon I went out for, which is a shame.

There is something that I find invigorating about taking night shots that’s difficult to put into words. I get out in nature, under the brightly-lit night sky, and everything just feels the way it’s supposed to. Things slow down, I get energized, and everything else fades away.

This was also actually the first time I went to the Kasota Prairie–one of my favorite spots for night shots–by myself. As it turns out, things get a little creepy out there without a partner…

If you like this, why not stick around?

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300: A Retrospective

Joe Lencioni — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:08:34 +0000

It seems like not that long ago I just passed the first 150 photos here. Honestly, I can’t believe that I’ve made it this far. 300 photos is an exciting milestone for me.

If you’ve been visiting for a while, thanks for sticking around. If you are new around here, I hope you like what you see. Please feel free to subscribe.

The images (starting top-left and going clockwise):

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Leonids II

Joe Lencioni — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:29:13 +0000

ƒ/4.5, 183 s, 400 ISO

Another shot of the Leonids at the Kasota Prairie.

2007 Bloggies

Be sure to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2007 Bloggies! Nominations close tonight at 10 p.m. eastern!

Photo of the day

Flickr – Kawaguchi-ko.

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Leonids

Joe Lencioni — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:53:46 +0000

ƒ/4.5, 353 s, 400 ISO

Back in November, I went out with some friends to try and photograph the annual Leonids meteor shower. Unfortunately, this year we didn’t end up seeing much activity in the skies, so I ended up taking long exposures right around the new moon, so it was extra dark—that’s why the star trails are so long and the red lights from town are so bright in the sky.

Photo of the day

Flickr – Saturn

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Kasota Prairie Pond 4

Joe Lencioni — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:56:25 +0000

ƒ/5.6, 223 s, 100 ISO

This is the last photo of the Kasota Prairie Pond that I will be posting. If you look closely enough, you can see the bottom of the pond on this one.

Happy New Year!

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Kasota Prairie Pond 3

Joe Lencioni — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:49:30 +0000

ƒ/5.6, 187 s, 100 ISO

I’m still on vacation, enjoying the nice weather down in Texas. I hope that things are going well for you during this holiday season. Here’s another night photo from the Kasota Prairie pond.

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