Great Egret checking out the boats.

A visit to the Long Beach  Marina by a Blue Heron

Found a group of Robin's and Cedar Waxwings feeding on berries. The Waxwings were staying back to far. not the best conditions but did what I could.

This was taken with my Nikon D90 with my Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM . This is straight out of the camera without any adjustments except for re sizing to post it. This was taken on the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi and the building is the Beau Rivage Casino in the late afternoon about three months ago while Mark and I were out shooting.

Snowy Egret having a bad hair day.

Spotted this guy in the marsh today. Taken with my Nikon 70-200 and 2x teleconverter combo.

I shot the Blue Heron today at the end of the pier on the beach in Ocean Springs.

Nikon D7000, Nikon 70-200VR lens with 2x teleconverter, shot hand held.

Another in a series of Snowy Egret images.

Biloxi shrimp boats on a foggy day

Shrimp boats in Biloxi, Ms. on a foggy day with a Blue Heron overlooking the scene.

Multiple exposure to reduce noise and gain detail

I was at McDonald's having an ice cream and I noticed the smoky sky turning into an interesting sunset. I took my iPod Touch out of my pocket and held it to the glass. Knowing what sort of horrible quality I was going to get, I took several identical shots to see how much improvement I could make with some editing. I took about 20 shots, but for editing I used 9 of the least awful shots. The first shot is a single exposure, the other is the combined 9 with a bit of additional noise reduction and some sharpening. All 9 shots were as horribly awful as this "before" picture. I think it's pretty amazing that in combining a bunch of terrible shots you can get something much better than any one individual shot.

This technique not only reduces noise. It increases detail as well - all other methods of noise reduction that I know of cause some degree of detail loss. It is nearly impossible to see some of the power lines in the upper right of the first picture, but in the second picture you can see them well enough to count them. It's still not quite possible to read the license plates, but you almost can. The sky is a lot less noisy. The same for the parking lot, and notice that the edges in the concrete are sharper and the brick detail at the extreme right is much better. Even the edited shot is pretty bad, but compared to a single shot it's a big improvement.

Using this terribly noisy camera gave me a good chance to demonstrate how much of an improvement you can make with shots that could use better detail and less noise. Think what this technique can do for a dedicated camera! And more so if you're shooting RAW. (What you see here is .jpg from start to finish)

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A HUMONGOUS leap in camera technology!

You may have heard of the Lytro camera, which can produce pictures that can be focused and re-focused after the picture has been taken. Pretty amazing, but it turns out that's not all this new technology can do. How about a whole new kind of 3D? Click here to read the article.

Hen Scaup

I had a chance to photograph several scaup last week and got several shots that I like.  This female lesser scaup floating on the water that is reflecting the blue sky with puffy white clouds is one that I like.

Nikon D300s, Nikkor 600 mm, f/8, 1/160th second, ISO 250, tripod, fill flash, slight crop.

Female Lesser Scaup

A few Snowy egret shots from North Biloxi.  ©jeffimpeyphotography.com

Shot with a Nikon D7000 and Nikon 70-200VR with 2x TC   35mm equivalent 600mm

foggy morning at Pass Christian Harbor

I started this weekend photographing all the many carvings along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were carved out of trunks of oak trees left by Hurricane Katrina. These two eagles are in the median of Hwy. 90 that runs along the beach on the Mississippi. These are located in front of the USM college campus in Long Beach, Ms. These two carvings are very large.  Photo by Jeff Impey

 

Shaking it off in flight.

I got a chance to shoot a portrait of a greenhouse frog this morning.  These are small, invasive exotic frogs that are now well established in many parts of the Deep South.

Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/60th second, ISO 200, handheld, flash as mainlight handheld off of camera, slight crop.

Seen several Hawks along old Hwy 90 after the rain. Red-Tailed Hawk