Today’s Flickr photo is of a place I’d really like to visit. The photography and history is amazing.
On a separate note, I know this is the first post of the week. Between baby stuff and an InDesign seminar booth I manned yesterday, I wasn’t able to do much. I have some down time today, though, and will be catching back up on posts. Stay tuned!
This week’s photo comes from my hometown. This was the number one return at Flickr when searching for Denver Skyline – this is a pretty nice shot of one of the best cities around!
This week’s images were chosen because of their spontaneity. We didn’t ask the girls in either picture to do anything in particular. But, in both pictures they ended up having very similar expressions. Portraits can always suprise you!
Both were taken with a Canon 40D, 24-70 2.8L lens, ISO 400, f 7.1, 1/60sec.
This week’s favorite Flickr photo is inspired by babies. My wife is only a week or two from delivering, so I’ve been on the lookout for ways to shoot our new one. It’s actually pretty tough to find a good picture of a newborn – most are taken when the kid is old enough to support his/her head, etc. I found several good ideas, but this one really appealed to me – the contrast in sizes really works. Click on the photo to go the the Flickr page for more information about the shooter.
Spring is upon us and I am badly craving some outdoor excursions and landscape shooting. Largely as a result of convenience, I’ve been doing a lot more portraits lately, but I also really love landscapes. Click the photo above for a larger view.
This week’s photo is another from the trip I took with my brother last fall to Moab. I WOULD have posted one of mine, but I wasn’t able to get any of the lightning. Why didn’t I get lightning? I click the shutter two seconds too late. Yeah, it sucked.
The trick to this shot (without a $300 lightning trigger) is to shoot in relatively low light, which we had at sunset. We were also lucky enough to have a pretty great lighting/thunder storm in the distance, just above the mesas, while we were bone dry. With the low light, we were able to close down the lens and leave the shutter open for quite a while, around 30 seconds. The trick was to have it open while lightning struck.
We were shooting pretty much in tandem – he just started one frame 5 seconds later than I did. So, my shutter closed and about 2 seconds later I saw the lightning bolt. Three seconds after that, my brother’s shutter closed. In those type of situations, one considers tossing the other person’s rig over the 1000 foot drop-off. Luckily, I restrained myself and this great photo resulted.
After a few days off, I’m back online! I took the days off to prepare for my trip to Orlando, FL for Photoshop World. I’m here now and ready to go. I know that I’m missing one important post from Workflow Week on Lightroom – it is a culminating post and I’d like to spend a little more time on it. Look for it later this week.
In the meantime, check out the following link and some photos.
The link comes from Strobist and is very, very cool. At my heart, I’m still a technical guy, so the article on how to trick one of your Nikon or Canon Speelite flashes into outputting way more power than normal is very enticing. Check out the well-explained story at Strobist here. [Update: Okay, I definately fell for it - didn't even check the calendar and notice the date of April 1. Check out my crow-eating acknowledgement here.]
Now to the photos – it is, after all, Photo of the Week day. This week’s shots come from my beach sight seeing yesterday (there aren’t many good views of the ocean in the Rocky Mountains, so I needed to take in the scenery).
Well, I’m off to my first day of classes. Today is a pre-con; I’m going on a field shoot with Joe McNally, Moose Peterson and about 60 other photographers. Of all the sessions this week, this has been the one I’ve most looked forward to. Moose and Joe are both amazing photographers and effective teachers. It should be great – I’ll post some info on it later tonight or early tomorrow.
