Pictures of Lucky the Duck and friends (25 pictures)

In the Olympus Talk Forum of dpreview.com, a group of photographers has been taking pictures of Lucky the Duck and then mailing the ducks to the next photographer on the list. I got the ducks on October 30th, 2009. The pbase album that collects Lucky the Duck pictures is at:

http://www.pbase.com/otfchallenge/lucky_duck

For some of the shots (Hallowe'en tales and the photo shoot picture), I used manual focusing using live view, which is a technique that I had not really explored before. I put the camera on the tripod and used my wired shutter release to fire the camera. I have a picture of the setup in the album. I used the info button to get the live view screen with the green square, and then positioned the square to the item I was focusing on, and hit the ok button to provide a 7x image of the selected area (usually the duck).

For the candlelight shots, I shot in slow sync 2 mode, which means the camera primarily shoots the scene with the available light, and then just before closing the shutter, it fires the flash. I played around with flash exposure compensation to get the effect that I wanted. I did forget to lock the ISO, so the camera did decide to bump up the ISO to 800 or so. Other than the candle light and the flash, there was just a hint of light from the dining room, but it didn't contribute to the shot.

In the photo shoot picture, you see Nutzo who is my personal mascot and accompanies me to renaissance faires and science fiction conventions. He started out in life as a finger puppet that Santa gave me for Christmas in 2008 when we went to my father's house in Illinois. In February, my wife made him a green renaissance flat cap that matches the hat in my green and yellow costume along with the tiny clay camera. As of November, my wife and I are planning to give him a girlfriend who is an painter instead of photographer (after all painters are more period to the renaissance). At the renaissance faire, Nutzo usually resides on my walking stick or on top of the camera.

Here are some of the albums Nutzo has appeared in.

The copyright owner on these pictures is Michael Meissner. Please direct any comments about this web page to mrmweb@the-meissners.org.

Michael Meissner's home page is at http://www.the-meissners.org, his Renaissance Faire/SF convention links are at http://www.the-meissners.org/ren.html, his digital camera links are at http://www.the-meissners.org/camera.html, his calendar links are at http://www.the-meissners.org/calendar.html, and the head of these photo albums is at http://www.the-meissners.org/photo.html.

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Pictures of stuffed animals arranged in silly positions (24 pictures)

Picture #1: Crackers and quackers 900x623, 92,243 bytes (91K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:23:18 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:13	Picture #2: Hallowe'en tales 800x823, 119,822 bytes (118K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 800, FL-36 flash, 1/3 sec, 27.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, manual focus, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 54.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, tripod, RM-CB1 wired shutter release Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:36:49 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:17
Picture #3: Hallowe'en tales #2 800x623, 99,127 bytes (97K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 500, FL-36 flash, 1/2 sec, 35.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, manual focus, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 70.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, tripod, RM-CB1 wired shutter release Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:40:42 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:19	Picture #4: Hallowe'en tales #3 1000x856, 159,989 bytes (157K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 640, FL-36 flash (+0.3 flash compensation), 1/3 sec, 35.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, manual focus, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 70.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, tripod, RM-CB1 wired shutter release Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:41:18 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:22
Picture #5: Hallowe'en tales #4 900x698, 127,693 bytes (125K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 800, FL-36 flash (+0.3 flash compensation), 1/4 sec, 35.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, manual focus, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 70.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, tripod, RM-CB1 wired shutter release Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:43:12 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:38 Special effects done by: Bumping contrast slightly; Desaturating colors; Colorize image selecting a brown tone; Smart sharpening.	Picture #6: Time for your photo shoot 800x623, 76,237 bytes (75K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/8.0, ISO 320, FL-36 flash, 1/3 sec, 49.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, manual focus, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 98.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, tripod, RM-CB1 wired shutter release Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:53:32 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 12:42
Picture #7: Snow globe 800x623, 76,543 bytes (75K), (html file) Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/3.0, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, auto mode, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 flash, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:42:12 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 19:08	Picture #8: Snow globe #2 900x698, 98,740 bytes (97K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:44:53 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:38
Picture #9: Let's go and take some pictures 600x846, 73,307 bytes (72K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:52:14 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:41	Picture #10: Hey, we're splashproof also! 800x623, 86,899 bytes (85K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:54:51 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:43
Picture #11: Duck soup 800x623, 77,231 bytes (76K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 25.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 50.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:57:37 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:45	Picture #12: Duck soup #2 600x823, 88,795 bytes (87K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 27.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 54.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 17:57:56 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:48
Picture #13: Going to hell in a handbasket 800x623, 75,774 bytes (74K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 23.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 46.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:02:54 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:51	Picture #14: Duck wannabee 600x823, 75,616 bytes (74K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 20.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 40.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:04:26 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:53
Picture #15: Duck wannabee #2 800x823, 81,170 bytes (80K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 17.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 34.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:04:53 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:55	Picture #16: Duck-duck-dragon 800x623, 87,454 bytes (86K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 27.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 54.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:05:55 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:57
Picture #17: Come fly with me 800x623, 95,593 bytes (94K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/100 sec, 46.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 92.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:09:40 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 18:59	Picture #18: Are these juggling balls or big eggs? 800x423, 60,506 bytes (60K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner, 2009, All Rights Reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 28.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 56.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:12:26 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 19:15
Picture #19: These make really great nests! 800x623, 135,397 bytes (133K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 22.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 44.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36 Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:13:48 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 19:04	Picture #20: It is duck and cup, not ball and cup 600x846, 83,999 bytes (83K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus E-3 camera with Olympus 14-54mm lens f/5.6, ISO 100, FL-36 flash, 1/60 sec, 19.0mm, aperture priority, natural color, matrix metering, image stabilization 35mm equivalent focal length 38.0mm Extra equipment used: FL-36, Flip-it Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 01, 2009 18:16:00 Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 19:06
Picture #21: Mmmm, peeps! 800x623, 57,183 bytes (56K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus C-2100UZ camera f/2.8, ISO 100, 1/80 sec, 17.3mm, auto mode, SHQ, cloudy, matrix metering 35mm equivalent focal length 96.0mm Extra equipment used: Promaster 5750DX flash Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 02, 2009 08:18:17 Last modified on November 02, 2009 at 09:13	Picture #22: Mmmm, peeps! #2 800x623, 56,616 bytes (56K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus C-2100UZ camera f/2.8, ISO 400, 1/50 sec, 17.3mm, auto mode, SHQ, cloudy, matrix metering 35mm equivalent focal length 96.0mm Programs used: NoiseNinja, gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 02, 2009 08:18:43 Last modified on November 02, 2009 at 09:16
Picture #23: Hey, turn on the water! 600x823, 86,465 bytes (85K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus C-2100UZ camera f/2.8, ISO 100, 1/40 sec, 8.6mm, auto mode, SHQ, cloudy, matrix metering 35mm equivalent focal length 48.0mm Extra equipment used: Promaster 5750DX flash Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 02, 2009 08:57:03 Last modified on November 02, 2009 at 09:17 I tried to fill and turn on the fountain for the ducks, but I couldn't get it started.	Picture #24: The ducks, their tickets, and carrying case 800x623, 73,332 bytes (72K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved Olympus C-2100UZ camera f/2.8, ISO 100, 1/60 sec, 15.2mm, auto mode, SHQ, cloudy, matrix metering 35mm equivalent focal length 84.0mm Extra equipment used: Promaster 5750DX flash Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on November 02, 2009 09:01:33 Last modified on November 02, 2009 at 09:19

Camera pictures (1 picture)

Picture #1: Setup for the Lucky Duck pictures

600x846, 78,313 bytes (77K), (html file)
Copyright, Michael Meissner 2009, All rights reserved
Olympus C-2100UZ camera
f/2.8, ISO 100, 1/50 sec, 12.3mm, auto mode, SHQ, cloudy, matrix metering
35mm equivalent focal length 68.0mm
Extra equipment used: Promaster 5750DX flash
Programs used: gimp
Taken by Michael Meissner on October 31, 2009 23:56:02
Last modified on November 01, 2009 at 13:03

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