2 Megapixels [1]

On 7 Sep ’10 by Bill W. With 0 Comments - 2 Megapixels, Photography, Series


I’d like to introduce you to a new feature on the site, appropriately titled “2 Megapixels.” Within each weekly entry with this title I will post an interesting picture that I’ve taken with my iPhone in the past week.  The number that follows will be the “volume” number or number of entries in the “2 Megapixels” series.  See below for entry [1].

I kind of cheated this time as this image was taken during one of the Cubs games I attended back in April.  I didn’t really expect to get any “postworthy” pictures that day as I didn’t even bring my camera.  But after some in-phone editing with Adobe Photoshop Express (highly recommended, free, editing app), this photo turned out pretty cool.  And as an added bonus, the Cubs won that day!  Click on the photo for a larger view of some vintage Wrigley Field seating.

A Night at the Fair

On 2 Sep ’10 by Bill W. With 1 Comments - Friends, Lightroom, Photography





This post includes several photos from Frontier Days, a yearly summer festival at Frontier Park in Arlington Heights, IL.  I brought my Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and my Nikon D50 body, the lightest setup I own, and tried to capture as much low-light imagery that I could.  I would have brought my tripod, but I wanted to stay as mobile as possible.

All these shots were edited in Adobe Lightroom tonight after sitting safely on my external hard drive for a couple months.  Classic: I take a bunch of pictures, transfer them to my hard drive, plan on editing them, forget about those pics, check back on them, decide that there were some “post-worth” images, edit, and post.  Expect several entries in the future to old pictures – possibly several years old.

I also won a stuffed monkey in the shoot-the-water-gun-into-the-small-hole-for-$3, but I gave it to my friend Kelly.  What am I going to do with a stuffed monkey?

The Scharnett Wedding

On 1 Sep ’10 by Bill W. With 4 Comments - Friends, Nikon, Outdoors, Preview, Wedding
My last blog post was a selection of pictures from a wedding where I WASN’T the official wedding photographer.  The photographer for Zac & Lisa’s wedding was a guy who kept referring to himself as “Uncle Brian,” making corny jokes, doing strange dance moves, and making everyone feel a little awkward.  I’m sure his pictures were nice, but he pretty much stuck to the formals – nothing extremely creative, from what I saw.


Thankfully, I was the main photographer for Paul & Anne (McLain) Scharnett’s wedding.  I say thankfully because the weekend was a TON of fun.  I lived with Paul for two (or three) years in college – it’s all a blur now; and I knew Anne really well since she lived in the girls’ house next door to our guys’ cooperative.  This wedding was a mini-reunion of sorts, which every “Koin-Strat” wedding seems to be.  But, being the photographer, I got to spend most of the ENTIRE weekend with a group of great people.



I hope the pictures that I deliver will portray the love and excitement that Paul & Anne share for each other.  Since this was my first wedding and I was shooting solo, there are a couple things I would do differently in the future.  But overall, I’m happy with the pictures so far – I’m still a little ways from being done with editing them all.  Here’s a bunch that are done.  Click on any of them for a larger version.  ENJOY!  And comment if you have suggestions/thoughts/criticisms.  I’ll be posting several more pictures in the future. Keep checking back!