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Bad Ass DJ

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:26:05 +0000

Shot this late afternoon of my bro with the 5D Mark II with a little fill flash which wasn’t a huge factor but made the side of his face slightly better. Post processing I created a bnw, a blue duotone and then a quadtone (blue, black, purple, orange) and overlaid them with some various blending modes in Photoshop. What do you think?

On the patio enjoying the summer

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:51:47 +0000

I know…haven’t shot much lately. Sorry – Been busy with work. (and enjoying the water)

So these two shots both came off my balcony. The other day I noticed this beautiful light hitting the chair on the deck so I grabbed the camera, dusted it off and snapped off a dozen or so shots. Put this one together with some HDR action. Used 4-5 shots to create the comp. Amazing detail down to the wood grain and fibers on the chair cushion and I personally really like the light on this one.

And the darker/sunset shot – Was enjoying a glass a wine while the sun was setting and thought I’d grab a few to capture the moment. Downside was that the glasses were a bit dirty…which I could always clean with Photoshop without much effort.

What do you think?

Carlsbad Fields of Flowers

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:03:47 +0000

Cruised over to the 50 acres of flowers over in Carlsbad this weekend for a few shots. Here is one of my favorites. Shot handheld with the Canon 5d mark II with an EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens at 1/200 sec, f/8 and 100ISO.

Canon’s new tilt and shift lens

dp — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:46:56 +0000

Yesterday Canon announced two new tilt and shift lenses that look absolutely amazing. The TS-E 17mm f/4L which has the widest view of any tilt/shift lens and the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II which is just an upgrade to another lens. Great lenses for keeping that “curve” out of your shot. (check out Canon’s sample image) Would love to have one soon as they come out in May!

More info on it here or here if interested.

Beach Rainbow

dp — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:58:37 +0000

Woke up this morning to an amazing sky. Fired up the new Canon 5d and shot this one handheld off the balcony.

B&W Styling

dp — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:28:34 +0000

So I’m on a mission now to figure out that style you showed me last week Michael. Started playing around with a few images to see if I’m on the right track. Thoughts on these? Did about 5mins of adjusting in camera raw and then I duplicated the b&w photo in photoshop, converted one to a quadtone, brought it back over to a RGB version, overlayed the layer as “soft light”, brought opacity down and then added a bit of noise. About 7mins per photo for the effect. Am I close?

Gaucho in Chile ready to cut up some beef.

Grape sorters working in a vineyard in Argentina.

Little sunset wave action

dp — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:41:16 +0000

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?

Subtle sharpening can make huge improvements on your photograph

dp — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:39:34 +0000

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 doing a little photoshop magic can really help. Here is an example of how I used a few skills in PS to get the look that I wanted.

What do you think Michael? Ready to learn some PS yet?

Lightning Strikes Back

dp — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:14:06 +0000

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 crazy and I wanted to capture something. One of the shots I found most interesting was this one with the lightning going through the bottom and through the top of the clouds. Kinda cool.

Shot with Canon 5d, 24mm, 320 ISO, f5.6 at 30 secs on a tripod.

Post processing – Came up with a bit of noise in the cloud area which I wasn’t happy about. Fixed easily in Photoshop by converting image to LAB mode and then slightly blurring the A and B channels around the noisy area. Then I converted back into RGB space and saved.

Below is another shot I thought turned out ok. Did this one with same lens using 100 ISO which eliminated the noise, f7.1 which gave a bit more focus and at same exposure time of 30 secs.

Thought this may be a good one for stock so I posted on Shutterstock, Crestock and iStockPhoto.