Saturday, January 15, 2011

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Day 196



This is the first time that I have ever included a client photo for my photo a day project. I like this photo too much not to share. I love the moodiness of the image and the strong directional lighting. No exif data this time, but I know that I was shooting the 85mm wide open at ISO 1000
or 1600.

Saturday, January 01, 2011

Day 195

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Day 186



For those of you who follow this blog regularly, the following 10 images are from a series that I did of my kids under some camera limitations. For the technical details, I simply put a short extension tube on an 85mm 1.8 fixed-focus prime lens. This extension tube eliminates autofocus, aperture control, and severely limits my depth-of-field. What it does do is allows me to focus the lens about 1 foot away from my subject and try to capture what I can in a very shallow depth of focus. I decided to focus on each of my kids as the subject matter, or at least features or items that represent them or their personalities. The follow 10 images will be posted without any data on exposures or anything, since the idea of the project has just been explained here. Enjoy!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Day 185



Canon 30D w/85mm 1.8 lens
1/160sec
f/1.8
ISO 800

Day 184



This cutie happens to be the sister of that last little cutie, Hanna. This is Carrie. She's a ham and a perfect model in front of the camera. I think that it might be near impossible to take a bad photo of her.

Canon 30D/w85mm 1.8 lens
1/100sec
f/1.8
ISO 1600

Day 183



This is Hanna. She's one of the many cute little nieces that I get to photograph from time to time. This photo was from an impromptu photo session that we had a couple weeks back. I enjoyed how this photo came out in black and white.

Canon 30D w/85mm 1.8 lens
1/200sec
f/4
ISO 200
(off-camera flash used)

Day 182



Another shot of Audrey's 2nd role in the musical as a "magical squirrel". She enjoyed this experience very much.

Same settings as Day 181.

Day 181



Caught this photo at a musical that Audrey was in (Willy Wonka, the musical). Used my fixed 85mm 1.8 lens, which posed its own challenges, being that I was very close to the set (literally, right on the floor in the front row). The proximity gave me plenty of great close-up shots, but wide shots were definitely impossible. In any case, I shot at 1600 ISO and didn't have any significant image noise to deal with. I would attribute that to software and the fact that the exposure I chose in manual mode worked out well with the lighting.

Canon 30D w/85mm lens
1/200sec
f/1.8
ISO 1600

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Getting Published

Recently I have had the opportunity to get some of my images used as an advertisement in Fine Living Lancaster, which is a local magazine publication. The ads are for the business of a friend and client of mine, Jesse O'Hara, whom I do work for. He makes amazing furniture, and he has adopted me as his 'official' photographer for his furniture business. The following are 2 ads that he has used in the magazine that have used images that I have taken:


 

I'm very proud to see my work in print in some form or another. I hope that this kind of thing can continue, because it is a lot of fun to do!

Monday, December 06, 2010

Day 180



Canon 30D w/17-50mm lens @50mm (extension tube)
1/25sec
f/8
ISO 1250

Friday, December 03, 2010

Day 179



Last photo in the Christmas cactus series.

Canon 30D w/17-50mm lens @50mm (extension tubes)
1/250 sec
f/8
ISO 400

Day 178



Christmas Cactus. Series image 3 of 4.

Canon 30D w/17-50mm lens @50mm (extension tubes)
1/250sec
f/8
ISO 400

Day 177





























This is a continuation of a series I'm doing on a christmas cactus plant. Again, this is another image that I've decided to give a fine art matted look.

Canon 30D w/17-50mm lens @50mm (extension tubes)
1/250 sec
f/8
ISO 400

Day 176



Although it may seem that I've abandoned the daily photo project, that's certainly not the case. The truth is that I've been so swamped, that it is hard to keep up. Personal art-making has taken a back seat as of late. I'm happy to say that with winter approaching, there will be opportunities aplenty to explore and continue this project further. In fact, I have several photos that I am going to be posting. I've decided to post each one of these in a fine art styled image. If you might be interested in a print of any of these next few images (or any of the images on my site), let me know. I'm always happy to share.

Canon 30D w/17-50mm lens @50mm on extension tube
1/250 sec
f/8
ISO 400