moon tonight

Light painting

Pepperment Patti?

LCD Vfinder

Power is back on, snow is gone and all is good. I will post my last weeks images tomorrow. Todays shot: A buddy lent me his hoodman LCD vfinder and I ordered my Carry Speed LCD that came in today. The hoodman is the much smaller one. I will review these and let you know what I think. If you do any kind of video with your dslr you need something like this to check focus.

Photosynth

If you don't have this program you are missing out on a lot of your photography fun. Check it out. DMB, Tim, it is Windows based only, sorry.

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=d85afc2a-0e3e-4686-bb3c-6c18c2310deb&m=false&i=0:2:1&c=0.0117509:-0.0736582:-0.00331339&z=422.620838040842&d=2.41182943117333:-2.46626467363579:-2.26543425434664&p=0:0&t=False

How'd he do that?

Care to make a stab on how I took these shots?

Keep the guesses coming.

Snow continued today

Remember when you were a kid. Snow angles sound so cold. She jumped right down and made about 1/2 doz of these in the back yard. BURRRRRRR

First Snow of the Season

I have a video that does not want to link here for some reason. Check out all the snow.
http://youtu.be/urgCK9eS-9U

5 lights

Using off camera flash. The 4 flashed in the back ground and one on the subject, camera right. White foam core camera left.

Keeps on ticking

My wacom tablet that I have had since 2004. Works like a charm.

Her first piano lesson

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Soft light

DNB, here is my video on what the Octobox looks like next to a human, that would be me, and some shots used with it. The above shot was taken with my octobox. Also with this shot I used lightroom to edit the image. I own lightroom 2 and have not used it much as I still don't understand the whole catalog, import, export thing. That is one of the things on my bucket list this year. I will learn this program, I will learn this program...

Octobox set up on counter

Hopefully I will have enough energy tomorrow to set this up and show what it can do. 80CM Octobox is just shy of 3 feet across. A good size as it packs a powerful, soft light.

Lightroom 4 beta

I love the video feature. Oh, and the photo feature isn't so bad either ;)

You want soft light?

A great deal for an 80cm Octobox. You would be hard pressed to find one of these for less than 100 dollars. This one was only 33.00. I will put together a behind the scenes video on what it looks like set up. Stay tuned tomorrow.

Light Reading

Scott Kelby's book is very good I would highly recommend this version.

Piercing of the Heart

After much effort, it still isn't perfect but close enough, I have posted my trailor for my feature film ;) GO to the youtube site for a full writeup and feel free to like and subscribe :)
I used Adobe PhotoShop CS5, Adobe Premiere CS5, audacity (a free audio program that I highly recommend), and my DSLR to film the entire short. and an idea in my head. Oh I almost forgot, used Free Play Music for the sound track.

Beauty Dish

My first shots with the 22 inch dish. Right out of the box. One light. I am going to love this thing. Tomorrow the case I carry it around in. Be sure to check out yesterdays flower shots. I posted thema bit late. It's amazing what a litte water can do for your images. And testing a video link, check this out.

All things come to an end

Stage your bokeh

Here is how I did my Cup o'joe photo as well as my lit candle The link below is my video on how I did this. I forget how to embed the video right here so if someone wants to pipe in and let me know, that would be great. http://youtu.be/4KY3_fdKxrI

Cup O'Joe

Played with light tonight. My k5 was sent in for repair today so I pulled out my k7. Shot at f 1.4 with my pentax 1.4 niffty fifty, ISO 200 and 1/100 second.

My Christmas lights played the roll of the steam, and hung them from my manfrotto 550 tripod. I shot with my Pentax 540 speedlight at 1/16 power, with a rogue Grid attached. Nice to use a professional modifier as I have always had a DIY honeycomb grid.