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Water Play From Bygone Summers
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 80 mm — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
Cool Fun on a Hot Summer Day

Yesterday's post – Water Play at Gen's House – reminded me of two years ago while we were in Cupertino for the summer (before selling our house).

Anthony was three and a half years old at the time. Having a yard with hoses, there was lots of water play, especially because it was such a hot summer that year...


Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 112 mm — 1/90 sec, f/5.3, ISO 250 — full exif & mapnearby photos
Three-Year-Old Fireman-in-Training

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 28 mm — 1/160 sec, f/7.1, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos

My favorite shots where of him playing in the lawn sprinklers that I posted at the time, but I'm so enamored with the series that I'll post a few more today...

A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 200 mm — 1/50 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 80 mm — 1/80 sec, f/5, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 75 mm — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 80 mm — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 105 mm — 1/180 sec, f/7.1, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 170 mm — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos
(a little fill flash helped on this one)
A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 105 mm — 1/160 sec, f/6.3, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos

One shot was way overexposed such that it came out almost all white. I lowered the exposure four stops in Lightroom, which brought out a little detail, but what detail was there became quite posterized when it was unsquished from the top of the highlight area, creating an interesting effect....

A boy runs through lawn sprinklers running at full blast
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 95 mm — 1/10 sec, f/5.3, ISO 100 — full exif & mapnearby photos

I felt the white “background” (the parts that were so overexposed that no detail could be recovered) was a bit harsh, so I added the vignette as well.


Comments so far....

Great series of shots! Maybe he and his little cousin can relive this and have some fun running through Grandma’s sprinklers in Ohio in a few weeks.

— comment by Marcina on July 7th, 2008 at 9:57am JST (5 months ago) comment permalink
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