Royston Kane Photography

June 2009 New Hampshire Trip

Royston — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:56:01 +0000

I have not posted in a while and need to catchup a bit. Here are a few from our trip to NH in June. The weather was not the greatest, but we did have some good family fun and my wife’s sister was in from India and they got to experience travel thorugh the lovely Green Mountains.

A Rare Sunny Day

Royston — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:50:52 +0000

These are some photographs from a sunny day last week. It was the first time the sun had popped through in a week. I decided to see how the Minolta 50mm f/1.7 would handle flowers and was quite happy.

Sunny Tulip

Royston — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:17:01 +0000

We had one good day last week weather wise. It have been dreay here in New England for a week and we another week to go it seems. For this shot I used the light of the sun coming in faintly from the right. I like to get under the flower and us the sky as the backdrop. This makes for some interesting lighting.

April 29, 2009 Moon

Royston — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:11:54 +0000

I was able to achieve good focus on this shot. Trying to shoot a cresent was the important thing. It is less bright than a full moon and provided more natural contrast.

April 10, 2009 Full Moon

Royston — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:26:16 +0000

Finally got a chance to try a Luna shot. I have been wanting to get out, but the weather has not cooperated. The full moon is not the best time to shoot our closest neighbor, but I tried my best. Focusing is really touch, but this is the best of my 15 or so shots. Thank God for digital!

This was taken with the Sony A100 hooked up to the Orion 80ED refractor mounted on my new WO EZ Touch mount. The EZ touch is super stable compared to my old EQ1.

Sarah’s First Communion

Royston — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:34:36 +0000

This is an overdue post from the last days in India. As I was part of the ceremonies, I did not get to take too many pictures, but managed a few. I like these two the best. Sarah had the least understated of the dresses.

Back from India

Royston — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:26:23 +0000

Vailankanni-17, originally uploaded by Alpha Photo.

Well, we are back from our month long trip to India. It is taking us a bit to get back to our routine, but in short, the trip was great. The weather could not be beat since it was in the low 90s towards the end. We have now returned to freezing temps here in New England, along with the snow.

I have finished processing images from the Vailankanni Shrine trip and decided to include this one as a teaser.

Merry Christmas

Royston — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:10:14 +0000

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by Alpha Photo.

My favorite picture from the snowstorm this weekend. I was taking pictures of the kids for our Christmas card and then told Glenis to jump in. I like the way the shot turned out. The HVL-F42AM flash is really great to use, especially compared to the Quantaray flash I was using before.

Hard to Get Photo of Sophie and Mom

Royston — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:25:48 +0000

Sophie is our 3 year old daughter. I have not posted many shot of her, as I have not been able to get decent ones. She has several disabilities and I could write a book or at least some future posts about what she has and what we have been going through to get some answers. Anyway, during mom’s birthday party, I was able to get this shot off. I was playing with the new flash (Sony HVL-f42AM) and bounced it off a low ceiling so as not to be too harsh. The result was decent and I still have some learning to do.

Sony A100, Sigma 24-70, Sony HVL-F42AM

First Snow of the Season

Royston — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:01:44 +0000

Got a few shots off today as we had a “snow event.” As usual, Sarah thought it was alot and got every bit out it as she could. All three shots taken with the A100 and Sigma 24-70mm combo.

First Snow

Sarah in the Snow

Barely an Angel