Foto Des Tages #105 ~ Power Supply

This shot will be the last of a series of shots taken at the Theif River Falls municipal dam. It is of the power relays just off of the dam.

Foto Des Tages #104 ~ Processing Center

This is the water processing center from our photo treck at the municipal dam. It is a truely unique building with many facets. I couldn't help but photograph it. What do you guys think?

Foto Des Tages #103 ~ Evergreen

This is a shot of the Evergreen, one of our nicest restaurants in Theif River, I have have nothing but fond memories there, and on our last trip into town I couldn't help but get a shot of it,

100th Foto Des Tages

Is almost hard to believe that only a few months ago I started posting a photo on a daily basis. With each photo came a wide degree of feedback from friendly supportive people, who shared advice and criticism. I thank all of you for the help you provided and the support you gave.

A few days ago we reached the hundredth photo of the day, it is exciting to have reached so far, and it is more exciting to see myself continue.

Tobias Mann

Foto Des Tages #102 ~ Trench

Foto Des Tages #101 ~ Dam Lift #2

This is a different perspective on the dam lift mechanism I photographed earlier on my trip to the damn.

Foto Des Tages #100 ~ Water Testing Facility

On our photo walk last week we we down at our cities municipal dam where I snapped this shot of the water processing facility. Which tests the river water for contaminants.

Foto Des Tages #99

Olympus PEN E-PL1 14mm 1/60 s, f/5.6 ISO 250

This shot is one of the most interesting of my Dam treck, these are the lifts for the flood gates, Its unbelievalbe that the cables used to lift them are so small(not pictured here). More like them coming up.

Foto Des Tages #98 ~ Dam

Olmypus PEN E-PL1 14mm 1/80 s, f/5.6 ISO 250

This is another shot from our trip to the Dam last wednesday, the dam gives the water a dramatic effect, while the cool evening gave the shot a solem fall tone.

Foto Des Tages #97 ~ Construction Begins

Olympus PEN E-PL1 40mm 1/160 s, f/5.6 ISO 250

This shot was taken two days ago on the same photo treck. This is a shot of one one of the construction crews working on an access path the river. It is interesting seeing how quickly these crews work to get the foundations for the new hospital, down. In the past week they have cleared and leveled the land. I am sure I will continue to follow the progess!

Foto Des Tages #96 ~ Old City Hospital

Olmypus PEN E-PL1 14mm 1/125 s, f/5.6 ISO 250

Yesternday, my girlfriend and I went on a photo treck to our cities dam where we took photos of many of the unique buildings in the area. This shot is from the damn looking onto our cities old hospital. Ironically on the way here we photographed the early construction of the new hospital, which is going up about a mile from my home.

Foto Des Tages #95 ~ City Hall

Olmypus Pen E-PL1 14mm 1/60sec F/3.5 ISO 200

Foto Des Tages #94 ~ Beads

Foto Des Tages #93 ~ Barries

Foto Des Tages #92 ~ Katze

Foto Des Tages #91 ~ Cabinets

Foto Des Tages #90 ~ Rain Drops Keep Fallin On My Head

Foto Des Tages #89 ~ Extinquisher

Foto Des Tages #88 ~ Faucet

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Foto Des Tages #86 ~ Recycle

Foto Des Tages # 85 ~ Tool Rack

Foto Des Tages #84 ~ Clean Sweep

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Foto Des Tages #82 ~ Bayfront

Foto Des Tages #81 ~ Chain Link

Foto Des Tages #80 ~ Fence Post

Foto Des Tages #79 Downtown Crossing

Foto Des Tages #78 ~ Low Lights

Foto Des Tages #77 ~ Perfect Double Exposure

Foto Des Tages #76 ~ Park Bench

Foto Des Tages #75 ~ Still Standing

Foto Des Tages #74 ~ Acoustic Cafe

Foto Des Tages #73 Utility Box

Foto Des Tages #72 ~ Railing

Foto Des Tages #71 ~ McDonalds

Foto Des Tages #70 ~ Grain

Technik #6 ~ Aspect Ratio

If you think about it, what is the aspect ratio of 90% of your photos? I bet your thinking 4:3 or 3:2 right? Why? Why not 6:6 or 12:6?

Why limit yourself in your photography skill to one simple aspect ratio? There are so many powerful aspect ratios that aren't taken advantage of because it just isn't convenient. There have been hundreds of cameras in history that have had peculiar aspect ratios.

Give it a shot sometimes it comes out better with a fine crop.

Foto Des Tages #69 ~ Cricket

Foto Des Tages #68 ~ Black Cat

Foto Des Tages #67 ~ Reworked

Foto Des Tages #66 ~ Water Towers

Foto Des Tages #65 ~ Fun & Play

Foto Des Tages #64 ~ Classic

Foto Des Tages #63 ~ Adventure Zone

Technik Der Woche #5 Time Lapse

Do you ever wish you could make  everyone disappear from a crowed city street, and capture just the emotional value of the architecture? Well some of you are probably thinking to yourselves the people add to the emotion, keep them in. You could do that, but you could  also create a very interesting effect out of the entire event. Slow things down, to the point where everything moving is but a blur or gone entirely.

Wait what? If your shooting at night, or in a dimly lit room, this is an excellent technique. Set your camera to manual mode, or on a film range finder just set the following settings.

1. Aperture Should be set to smallest setting (Highest F/Stop I.E. F/16)


2. Shutter speed should be adjusted to the point where the meter registers +1/3 generally around 30seconds to 1 minute. On a manual film rangefinder set the camera to bulb, and hold it open for a count. If you have a shutter release this may help as well.


3. Do it again. Not every shot is going to be blurred as much as you want it to be. Keep trying. You might try opening up an old cheap rangefinder like a Argus C3 and creating a pinhole camera, out of it, dragging exposure times from 60seconds to several minutes.

There are tons of things to try just go try.

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