Oh my LORD, Jay. I'll know I've reached my personal photography-chops goal when I can visualize light like you do. You're my "light is magic" idol
(and the "tornado light" on your flowers - definitely one of the eeriest lights known to man, I've been in a few of those *shudder*)
arpaagent - gorgeous portrait! A perfect use of a wide portrait effect, I really like the feel of this pic.
Downfall, these blown-out flower photos really capture me. This is my fave so far:
Emacs - light & composition are lovely!
MikeSF, what a gorgeous shot. The almost candy-toned colors are really different from usual landscape color schemes. How long were the exposures on this pano? It's just the right amount of soft blur, really otherworldly!
Our continued lack of summer (until *this weekend*) has left me uninspired to shoot, so it's been a while! But I did a portrait session yesterday and got some good ones. We were at a beach near the BNSF tracks, and I caught a companion shot to my chocolate-tinted train shot from last year:
Sidelined cars on the BNSF:
My photoshoot was for "babies of the family." Once again, we were out at high noon *sigh* Well, there's only so much you can do when trying to assemble more than 10 people! This time (thank goodness) I'm shooting with the K5 and all my highlight clipping problems from the previous shoot with the K-x were
no more. Man I love the K5 FA43 combo - it's the perfect "do everything" lens. I did the whole session with the 43 - group shots, close ups, head shots. It can do no wrong! Unless you forget what f-stop you're on *cough* which I may have done right at the end, when my brain pan was baked by sun
I was shooting as if f8, when really I was f2 - quite a few missed focus shots from quick re-compositions. Sigh.
Here's Grandpa putting sunblock on baby. Love this shot:
Baby had never seen sand or beach before - she was constantly diving for the glinting quartz crystals! Not even my mistaken f2 missed focus point could change the charm of this photo