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So one year has passed since I started taking pictures of people and in that one years I have met some amazing people and have learnt a lot. I still got a lot to improve on and a lot to learn but I have no doubt that I will.
Even though I have been published before, this is my first one that is people related and was with photoplus, the canon magazine.
Enjoy.
All of the pictures are © copyright by P1ay "All rights are reserved" worldwide. Please do not use, copy or edit any of my photographs. However please feel free to contact with me if you are interested in using any of my images.
With a seven hour round trip drive included, fitting the PDN PhotoPlus Expo trip into 24 hours makes for a huge day. Increase the drive time to 10 hours (thanks to traffic), include a 1 hour wait at the show admission line due to a system outage (yes, I was preregistered), attend seven planned meetings plus a dinner meeting and I am left searching for a word that means much bigger than huge. Perhaps mammoth?
Still, with the show floor closing at 5:00 PM and rest seeming so unproductive, I decided to plan a shoot between the show and the dinner meeting. This year, I headed over to Brooklyn Bridge Park near Pier 1 (in Brooklyn) to the pilings shown in this picture.
I got onto the shoreline rocks beside the boat ramp and positioned the camera so that the opening between some of the pilings curved into the frame. I adjusted the focal length (with some mostly minor variety used) for a good size balance between the buildings and the pilings. An ultra-wide angle would emphasize the pilings while a standard or short telephoto lens would place more emphasis on the buildings. Another consideration is the levelness of the camera. With the camera vertically level, the buildings toward the sides of the frame remain vertically straight in this image.
The Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM Lens (www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-16-35mm-f-4-...) mounted to the Canon EOS 5D Mark III (www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EOS-5D-Mark-III...) was the perfect choice for this scene. Perfect for both the angle of view/focal length range and for the impressive image quality it provides.
I was in position in front of the piers as the sun set. While I have images captured during sunset that I like, including the sun against the horizon with the last sunlight of the day reflecting on the water, the city lights were not showing at this time of the day and the colors were not as attractive to me as the late blue hour example shown here. I also have some shorter exposures of this scene, but the choppy river did not attract my eye like the buttery-smooth blurred alternatives. I used neutral density filters and adjusted the aperture slightly (between f/8 and f/11) to keep my exposure times at or near 30 seconds as sunset turned into blue hour and then into dark. I started with a 6-stop ND, moved to a 2-stop ND and removed that filter as darkness came.
While this may seem like a long time to shoot a single scene, this was the shot I wanted and I wanted a variety of options to choose from. I was shooting 3 bracketed frames (this is an HDR image) with the longest exposure at or near 30 seconds in duration and I had long exposure noise reduction enabled, meaning that dark frames were captured for an equally long period of time. This means that I was spending several minutes for each potential final image. With exposures that long, one cannot predict the large boats and other detractants that will possibly influence an image and I threw away some frames for this reason. In the end, I had a nice amount of images, but not a crazy number.
Likely, only a few of the images from this shoot will see the light of day. But, I really like those few images and consider the time and effort well spent. I can cross "Pilings at Brooklyn Bridge Park" off of my location bucket list.
The day started at 5:00 AM and ended at 2:45 AM the next morning. The overall results from the day, including the meetings and the show, were totally worth the effort.
Gear Used:
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM Lens
Gitzo GT3542LS Systematic Carbon Fiber Tripod
Arca-Swiss Monoball Z1 Ball Head
Camera and Lens Settings:
30mm f/8.0 30s ISO 100 5760 x 3840px
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*#MOTION *#LiGHTPAINTING *#COLORS *#PHOTOPLUS
_____Time lapse video of the LP picture Confinés 2020 (flic.kr/p/2iT7Eua) made with ALEXiA in La Roche-sur-Yon, France 2020 during the lockdown > Video edit done by MASS Check out the video of the creation of this LP on youtube : youtu.be/VlX-N1RDRcc
> Youtube video : youtu.be/VlX-N1RDRcc
"Lightpainting is magiK"
The original of this picture was posted Jan 30th, critiqued in Photoplus Issue 138 Spring Edition, I have taken the expert advice and re-cropped as suggested
This was at the Olympus booth with a demo on wedding photography.
More photos shot with the Olympus 75mm are in my set
*#MOTION *#LiGHTPAINTING *#COLORS *#PHOTOPLUS
_____ Kinetic portrait of ALEXiA made in 1 single photographic frame of 52 seconds F/22 iso : 200 with one flash on the right of the camera.
I started the shot with the flash on ALEXiA, lens cap on and moved my camera on the 2nd tripod which was set for the camera to be upside down. Lens cap off, a few seconds to expose the background and CLiCK, picture done !_____
___ "KiNETIC is MAGiK" ___
Saw this on PhotoPlus and was very keen to experiment my very own. Oh it's also been raining the last few days...