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We drove out of town last weekend, and decided to stop in a few small towns before getting to this place, 10 minutes after the park closed! At least we got to snap some shots from outside.
Camera - Canon 600D
Lens - Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Edited in Lightroom 5 with VSCO Film pack 4.
2014/11/22 Hultsfred - Sweden
I honestly couldn't have thought of a better way to end the summer. The nights were warm with a hint of cool, the stars were out and the skies fiery as the sun set. We watched this beautiful sunset over Wisconsin Bay in Peninsula State Park. When I passed by this couple on a bench, I couldn't resist! Jackie said I was creepin'!! They were sipping wine and I tried to capture the wine glass being lifted but missed it. I 'almost' went over and requested that they 'hold that pose!'
Hope everyone is having a relaxing Monday. I plan on cooking up a huge pot of vegetable beef soup. I just got back from Michigan yesterday, and my childhood friend and her mum loaded up the backseat of my Honda with the bounty from their garden! I will be around a bit to catch up to everyone, to see what y'all have been up to!
Happy Monday!
“What interests me is not the destination, but the attitude [traveling with new eyes and an open mind].” — Giampiero Bodino
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These are some of the test shots I did with the New Canon 7d, aimed at testing it in the field of Landscape photography including infrared and long exposure.
The 7d with its 1.6x crop factor suited well with the Canon 10-22mm ultrawide lens. First thing I noticed about the unit was the how the ergonomic design felt different. It had a feeling of a 5d mk2, the weight, the feel of the leather cover. Buttons were quite different, first thing youll notice is the a dedicated start and stop button for the live view/ hd movie. Second is the off/on button usually placed at the lower right side of the camera, its now aptly placed in the upper left together with the main dial. Two new buttons that's a first to me was the Q button and the m-fn button just beside the shutter button.
Peeping thru the viewfinder, one will be amazed as the 100% sight of the viewfinder plus the 10mm gave a wider perspective. It was my 2nd time using the live view to compose and focus. It made life simpler. The horizon axis function really helped a lot, cropping was lessen.
Focusing, with the 19cross type focal points, it was easier to focus and meter the foreground. I had a hard time shifting the controls since it was given to me without the manual. There are four presets of the focusing from automatic and manual.
I think ill leave the technical people to really dwell on the specs and other functions of the camera. I would like to concentrate more on actual field test. The photos in this thread were minimally processed...canon dpp software global adjustments and sharpening for web. Colors were not altered nor enhanced.
This conceptual, self-portrait represents part of my four-year journey at Azusa Pacific University. I am relatively new to conceptual photography but am excited to produce more photos soon!
A FULL FRAME FISH in HK
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Something to remember HK by....I have been here so many times but never tried shooting the place...I mean really shoot it the way I wanted. Borrowing my partner's terminology for a full frame camera with a 15mm fisheye (thanks to Raymond Cruz for the lens), I tried to bend matter and light.
The distortion is to taste and i love it.
I haven't had a chance to get out and catch a sunrise in a long time. This makes me sad. So I went in search of an earlier capture ... and found this one. I feel euphoric and jubilant ... just looking ... at the 'big hard sun' in this image!! I hope you do too!!
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
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You may have noticed that I have shot this model several times. Her name is Carla. She models, and is also a barber in Branson, MO at a barber shop called Fat Donney's. If you are ever in Branson to visit, stop by and meet Carla. She's one of my favorite models to work with! Tell her Jared sent you.
Image made on my property (which is beautiful and designed for my portrait sessions) in natural light, at a 1.4 aperture.
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
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“Nietzsche also proposed a second kind of tourism, whereby we may learn how our societies and identities have been formed by the past and so acquire a sense of continuity and belonging.
The person practising this kind of tourism ‘looks beyond his own individual transitory existence and feels himself to be the spirit of his house, his race, his city’.
He can gaze at old buildings and feel ‘the happiness of knowing that he is not wholly accidental and arbitrary but grown out of a past as its heir, flower, and fruit, and that his existence is thus excused and indeed justified'.”
—The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
DEPICTIONS: A tale of PORTRAITS
Before my marriage to landscape, I was a disciple of portraits.
I missed shooting portraits.
That is why I would like to share some of my collection of portraits taken during a trip with Manny Librodo in Pagsanjan.
I wanted to rekindle my love for portraits and here are some of my work...
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I will have a few new little projects running from today. This is the one of them. In all photos the light is very important but that is series of pictures where the light is even more important than the composition.
wish you great first proper week of the year, especially if you are back to work!
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Looking forward to your constructive comments and catch up more.
September is perfect for new beginnings. Typically January is the beginning of the year, but for me September always feels like New Year.
It's a sudden stop!
I headed to Holland at the start of June for a suprise buck's party for our good friend Guido. I spent an afternoon alone, exploring the canals & sun-drenched streets of Amsterdam before meeting with friends.
We head off to France tommorrow to shot our first wedding on the weekend.
Fingers crossed for good luck.
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Amsterdam, Holland.
2009.
"Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow."
— Paulo Coelho
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Timing and the right use of shutter speed is essental in creating interesting wave patterns. For me to capture this I experimented in suing shutter speeds from 1/4 to 2 seconds.