What to do when you are bored.

So what are we looking at here. I will tell you it is a macro and that 

it was shot at 1/50 of a second at f/2.0 with an ISO of 1000. 

The rest you can figure out or just read on.

There are many things we can find to do at any give time in the day. This is day four of sitting in class all day trying to gain those nuggets of information to enhance my performance as a pilot. When the day is done it is off to the hotel, eat, and either off to the bar to shoot the breeze with "the guys", or back to the room. The first option is really no option at all for this kid, I would much prefer to expand my knowledge base in photography or work with images than do the bar scene.

Evening in my hotel room is a great time to snipe the blogs and post something up for myself. However there-in-lies the problem. With a photo blog, I generally like to get something photographically to post. The G9 is great for some things (low ISO) but it is not totally open to pushing the creativity envelope. As I knew I was going to be in Columbus all week and I drove down, that afforded me the opportunity to bring my gear bag with the 5D2 in tow.

So to answer the question raise on the title of this post. You can stay in your room and find something to shoot macro of. I took my EF 50 f/1.4 lens and stuck it to a 36 mm extension tube and mounted it on the 5d2. The small world is full of giant subjects so it does not take long to find something to shoot. If you look at the image below you will see what was shot to create the image above. It is the base and standard of the lamp on the desk in my room.

It looks a little lame in the white balance area. I had to shoot jpegs as Adobe is not letting me get ACR 2.2 for Elements (which is what I run on my PowerBook G4) and you guessed it, ACR 2.2 supports the 5D2. Now when I am back at the house Lightroom 2.2 supports the 5D2 but CS3 does not. This is not a big deal because I can send a file to CS3 from LR with the LR changes which are actually ACR 2.2. Oh well, I am debating on getting CS4 and that would eliminate the issue all together.

To close for the day, just remember, there is always something that is wanting to get photographed.

Take care... Doug