Woke up at 5:30 on Saturday morning (after too many Fernets the night before)…but the sky was crystal clear so I got out of bed to take these shots…both taken with the D300 and 50mm 1.4 lens (love that lens — super fast and tack sharp)
This has very little (nothing) to do with photography, but I am very happy about this nice press piece about our development…so I thought I would share…
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A Very Private Label
Brian Byrnes
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jan 26, 2009
Any host can pour a great vintage at a dinner party. But how many can say, “Try this [...]
This last week in So. Cal we’ve been hit with some pretty good surf. Been shooting tons of surf, sunset and wave photos. Can’t help but love the shape of the wave on this one. Posted a few more on my surfline profile. What do you think?
Have any from down south Michael?
Based on a recent comment from Michael on sharpening, I thought I’d do a quick demo to show how sharpening can make a photo really pop. ESPECIALLY when it comes to hair and eyes. Yes you can and should use some sharpening within your camera so you don’t have to do it post…sure. But sometimes [...]
100% crop from the lightning post. Not too noisy…its Nikon afterall (if I only had the d700!). Shot at 200 ISO
We were in Arizona for the weekend during monsoon season when I got this shot. For hours I stood in the rain under an umbrella as it poured trying to get a few good ones of the lightning storm. My wife thought I was crazy sitting out there but I didn’t care! The storm was [...]
My first lightning shots…I got lucky. I put my Nikon D300 with 70-200 2.8 lens on the tripod, focused on infinity and held the shuuter down until a few strikes hit. Then I got tired of pressing the shutter, so I just left it open, drank some wine and went over and pressed it again [...]