Just picked up a new to me but used drum set. Here is the amazing snare. Love all the nicks and dents but I am strange like that.
13 sn, 12 t, 14 ft and a 20 bd. Sounds amazing. Can't wait to get new heads on everything.
Shot with a tilt shift 90 mm with 2 Einsteins in strip boxes with diapers and a crazy diffusion set up.
NK: I think it’s a universal Western truth that we have a real problem thinking any lower than our head into how we feel about things. I think when we are always trying to make our brain do the work and separate a picture into why I like it or why I don’t and what are the reasons for it, it’s often as simple as that it touches me in an emotional place, in a place inside me that responds to this for whatever reason. Maybe the way I was brought up, maybe the way my parents were brought up. Who knows how far these things go? We all have a problem in knowing that.
Good art works on that level very, very well. Think of Rothko as an excellent example. There’s almost no information on the canvas, and people can sit in front of them for hours, with very, very strong feelings. So composition in itself and weight of composition and colour can give you very strong connections to you and your past. I think that probably explains it.
Just something from the archive.
Here is a shot of our lovely garden shed filled with all sorts of wood and dirt. The morning light hitting it with the green and reds and whites and blacks.... had to get a shot. This could be a lot of fun to blur the crap out of and make a color field print of.
Wysteria is wild and crazy stuff. I am training this bunch to run down the length of our fence. It follows those "T" bars I make out of cedar. I was messing around and made this sepia toned image and really enjoyed it as this graphic piece.
Just a reminder that even death brings about life and there is a beauty in that. Need some people to remember that right now.
Just another iPhone snap from our recent trip to Hawaii. Drinking my coffee in the gray Portland rain this morning made me review a few of these.
Why yes, I am shooting a disembodied leg in front of green screen. What, you don't see all the practical uses of this? Huh... well... I dunno what to tell you then.
Wanted to try out some high speed tests using a sound trigger to pop the strobes and these are the test files. Last one is a screen grab from 100% which shows that there is no blur at all going on in those drops. I was really wailing on the cymbal as well. Fun stuff.
Hookipa beach from the lookout point right above it. Amazing view and a beautiful day. Pano shot on a 5d.
Just got back from a life nourishing vacation and here is one of my iPhone snaps from the trip. The camera on that sure is a lot of fun now a days. Hawaii if a pretty amazing place. More pics to come soon.
Winter rolls on here at pixelrust and slowly I am getting out of my winter funk / work busy period. Starting to feel the creative itch again. Set up a new bay for table top shooting so I no longer have to break it down to shoot green screen work related stuff. That means I have an area I can leave up and tinker with without work getting in the way. Excited about that. One of the things I always wanted was a table top zone I could just build things in. Here is something from almost 20 years ago I dug up while upgrading to Lightroom 3.
So fun stuff like this is in order I think. Don't have as much crap laying around as I did back then though... lol!
Had some lovely fog here the other morning and I took a few of these which I thought worked really well together.
Been very busy as of late with work so being able to escape and get some shooting done this past weekend was very relaxing. I am exploring what it is like to shoot the same place time and time again. I believe that the only way to get to know an area, to truly photograph it, you have to spend a lot of time there so you can see it throughout the seasons and how it changes. On this hike there were 3-4 seasonal falls that were not there just 3 weeks before. I find that amazing myself. Speaking of, I have another series from here I shot in October which I am working on the editing now. Since this is later in the year I want to keep the groups separate. This one has a lot more fall colors in it and I think it is a bit stronger. The other one has more macro work in it though which is interesting to explore.
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When shooting landscapes what I enjoy is that to do it right you have to frame up your shot then breath for about 15 seconds to take it in. See what else will show itself to you in the frame. Maybe it will change a bit and be better and maybe not. But it's a great time to stand still for 15 seconds and just take it all in none the less.
Jill Greenberg lighting setup and lighting diagram | Lighting For Photo
David Bicho's tribute to Jill Greenberg, using her characteristic lighting setup. With a lighting diagram and a description. Nicely documented.
Start with a 16-bit picture (8 will work too, but for mathematical reasons you’ll get better results with a raw image) with really sharp well-focused point sources of light (street-lamps, christmas lights, ferris wheel bulbs) and then run a “Filter->Shape Blur” on the part of the image that you want the custom bokeh effect to show up in.
This always comes up that So and So relies too heavily on Post Production to make their images look good and it always gets under my skin. The darkroom and photography has been about manipulation since it's birth. Here is the master of manipulations himself, Ansel Adams.
Canon 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Macro Lens Review: 6. Conclusion & samples: Digital Photography Review
There's little doubt that, all round, this is one of the very finest lenses we've seen - optically it's superb, and operationally it works very well too, with fast and positive autofocus, and one of the most effective image stabilization systems currently available. Throw in the high build quality, including dust- and splash-proofing, and it all adds up to a very desirable package indeed.
Sharpest lens out there. I have the older version, may be time for a upgrade...