Preparing to take a shot in the dark.
My first ‘planned’ Strobist-style shot, the intent was to get the trees in the background fairly dark, maybe a couple of stops below ambient, and light my face and camera with a single strobe. The strobe had a 1/2 CTB gel, camera white balance was set for daylight [...]
Spooky Halloween pumpkin luminary ornaments on a silver and black background.
Spooky Halloween jack-o-lantern on a blue background. Happy Halloween!
Playing around with zoom blur, or maybe more like psuedo-zoom-blur, since the typical point-and-shoot won’t allow zoom changes during exposure. I did it by moving the camera closer to the subject as smoothly as possible. The flash fired at shutter-open to ‘freeze’ the initial image that the blur lines move out of. Taken straight out [...]
Outside it’s fall, with turning leaves and pumpkins and crisp cool air. Past the autumn wreath on the door you see inside through decorative glass, to the warmth which beckons you in.
Oh, I have stories to tell. I’ve taken you, and everyone before you, from place to place since Carter was in the White House. I’ve been beat on, patched up, bodged together and put up with it all for a quarter million miles. My paint is faded and my body tired, but my heart still [...]
Soft focus, old-school style.
Smeared Vaseline onto a skylight filter in a circular motion, heavier toward the edges and feathered to a clear spot in the center. Held it in position in front of the lens as I have no filter thread adapter on my camera, however this allowed me to move the clear section off [...]
A pianist, lit moodily with only the light over the piano.
