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Doug Barlow 17-Aug-2009 04:08
Leon,Lon, But really it's just Lonnie! I was hoping to see you at the class reunion, did I miss you, oh maybe you just were'nt there.
I picked up the "book" saw you in it,went to the computor, typed in Leon Maynard and presto bingo looked what I got!!, The reunion was great, I have'nt had that much fun in 35-40 years.
Quick up date, still married to Melinda, 39 great years!! 5-kids 12 grand kids.life is good. I think some where in the not to far off future Melinda and me need to take a vacation to Idaho.
You tought me how to tie a tie. (Windsor Knot)Remember? Send me a Hello.
Doug Barlow
Cynthia Jenkins 19-Sep-2008 23:03
Hi Leon! I hope you get this... I'm in the middle of writing an e-mail to Gerrit and was hoping that you had some photos of the economic summit at Xiangming from this past summer online. If you do have some, I'd really like to see them...maybe even put a photo of the Borah students there to add to our display case. It's finally completed, so drop by sometime to see it. I'd also really like to here how everything went and if there is a future in the sister school relationship and with the economic summit abroad. I talked to Steve F. at the Shakespeare performance a few weeks ago and was so happy to here how successful everything went. We're all just too busy! Hope all is well with you. Cynthia
Dr. Robert Grover 09-May-2008 12:23
Brother Maynard,
Surfing for Trek photos, I came across yours. Nicely done! I love how you captured the spirit of the event. We start Ma and Pa training tonight.
Bob Grover
groverphoto.net
richard haas 11-Jul-2006 14:32
could you please contact me. Thanks in advance
Guest 14-Dec-2005 00:21
Dad,

Love your guts and your pictures!

Ben
O'Neils 30-Jun-2004 19:38
Looking forward to seeing the pictures here. Looks like you're studying photography and doing great things! Can't wait to see you at reunion.

Love
Mike and Deb O
Wes Maynard 03-May-2004 02:59
Dad,

Awesome pictures!

-Wes
roberta07-Mar-2004 21:35
Hi Leon,
I found your galleries. You asked me to take a look. Here goes...Pleasanton Sign- At 1/6 sec the flag/tree branches are blurry (wind). You could bump up your ISO to 400 for a night shot and still get decent resolution. That would allow you to achieve a faster shutter speed which would help alittle. Use a tripod for night shots and use the automatic timer or a remote switch to cut down on any camera shake. If it's windy, you will get some blur but a faster shutter speed will help.

Do you have Photoshop?

Girl Downtown and Harley Pleasanton have good sharpness and Girl Downtown has a very nice composition. Pleasanton Hotel is sharp at 75mm. Catails- very nice! Tangerines-lovely lighting and a great composition. Maybe a bit more depth of field would be nice to get the entire center tangerine in focus.

Harley Man- Did you blur the skin on his nose? Try changing the opacity of your blur tool...don't use 100% on his skin. Lower the % so you get a more subtle effect that blends with the surrounding skin.

Julian Blue Motorcycle- good composition and good sharpness at 155mm. Early Morning Golfer- 1/800th sec, 300mm- good sharpness. Some of your 300mm shots are slightly blurry but the golfer is fine with the faster shutter speed of 1/800th sec. When you shoot at 300mm without a tripod, use a faster shutter speed than 1/250th sec. and you will get sharper pics.

Metalic Mexican- 1/13th sec- use a tripod for a shot with such a slow shutter speed or you will get camera shake...or increase the ISO so you can use a faster shutter speed for this shot. I would also go with a higher aperture than f4.5 for this shot to achieve greater depth of field so the entire sculpture is sharp from the front of it to the back of it. Maybe f8 which would still give you a blurred background.

Sierra- focus on her eyes.

Little Brown Bird- You are having more success with your lens at shorter focal lengths. It seems that 300mm is giving you the most trouble. Again, if you are handholding at 300mm, try a faster shutter speed than 1/250 sec at 300mm. I have found that my bird pics are better at f8 because when I use my 100-400 mm zoom at 350-400mm, the depth of field is so shallow at those focal lengths that f8 will at least get the bird's whole body in focus. My lens has IS too which helps eliminate camera shake but even with that, it takes a lot of practice to handhold at 300mm+.

Are you using Tv and Av? If yes, good. Get away from P so you have control over the image. I also use the exposure compensation constantly on my 10D. I use one focus box (not seven) and mostly AI FOCUS. I'm not exactly sure about the 300D but I think it's similar.

Hope this helps. What is your workflow?

Take care and enjoy your 300D!
Roberta <><