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Strobist info :
Cross light with an octabox (90 cm) on the right side with a Godox Qt600 II at 1/4.
Background vignet with a Godox Qt600II with basic diffuser and a 20 degres honeycomb grid at 1/16.
You can see the much larger panorama version of this shot here on my Google+ account.
#Nocturne C-sharp Minor #
From the new Frozen Music series called Nocturnes - Architectural/cityscapes shots at night.
Technical info:
ND106 - 6 stops.
f/10
ISO100
35 mm
224s (3min44sec) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5 - Silver Efex Pro 2
Other Post processing equipment:
Wacom Intuos 4 tablet for some accurate editing.
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This is a very tricky one. I know many of you won't like it since there is no subject in it. Just the sea and the sky. But is that really important? If you think so, just skip this image...
Here's an attempt to explain it.
I've been a long time Hiroshi Sugimoto fan. Who isn't familiar with Sugimoto's U2 album cover? This very minimalistic photograph has been copied many times by other artists but somehow they always fail to capture the essence. So what is the essence? I've been thinking of this for a very long time until P R I M E R referred me to a very interesting interview on Sprayblog with photographer David Fokos.
I've been struggling for a long time to describe why I love minimalistic long exposure images. And this outstanding photographer David Fokos just hit the nail on its head. This is what he said (or just read the complete article):
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I believe that our sense of experience is built up over time – a composite of many short-term events. I will often suggest this analogy: Suppose you meet someone for the first time. Your impression of that person is not a snapshot in your mind of the first time you saw that person, but rather a portrait you have assembled from many separate moments. Each time that person exhibits a new facial expression or hand gesture, you add that into your impression of who that person is. Your image of that person — how you feel about that person — is formed over time, rather than upon a single expression or gesture. Likewise, I believe that our impression of the world is based upon our total experience. For example, the ocean has always made me feel calm, relaxed, and contented. If I were to take an instantaneous snapshot of the ocean, the photo would include waves with jagged edges, salt spray, and foam. This type of image does not make me feel calm — it does not represent how the ocean makes me feel as I stare out over the water. What I am responding to is the underlying, fundamental form of the ocean, its vast expansiveness and the strong line of the horizon, both of which are very stable, calming forms that I find relaxing. So, I had to find a way to brush away the messy, “visual noise” of the waves to get to the essence of my experience. I have done this by using my camera’s unique ability to average time, through the use of long exposures. In this way I am able to quell the visual noise (e.g. the short-term temporal events like breaking waves or zooming cars) to reveal a sort of hidden world. It is a very real world to be sure – the camera was able to record the scene – it is just not one that we normally experience visually.
Our bodies respond to many types of stimuli. What we see – the visual information – is just one type of stimulus, though it is often the most overpowering of the senses. However, due to the short wavelengths of visible light, this information is presented to us in an infinite series of frozen snapshot moments. Our bodies also react to other types of stimuli on longer time scales – our sense of touch, smell, hearing, etc. The wavelengths of sound waves are much longer than those of light so it takes our body longer to capture a “sound snapshot”. Our skin reacts to sunlight, another stimulus, but how long does it take for us to get a tan or sunburn? The point is that the world exists as a time continuum, not just a frozen snapshot. Our bodies respond to the world in a cumulative way, averaging our experience as we pass through time. Using my camera’s ability to average time through long exposures, I can reveal what our world “looks” like based on a longer time scale. My photographic process acts as a translator – translating from the “invisible” world of non-instantaneous events, into the visible world as a photographic print. In a way, it is like peeling back a page to reveal a world that, while very real, is not experienced visually. We feel it. We sense it. But in general, we don’t see it.(…)
And (…) When I make an image I know exactly on what I want the viewer to focus and what I want them to see and feel. By reducing my images to austere minimalist compositions I force the viewer to more closely examine what I have left in the frame thus intensifying the viewer’s observation and appreciation of the few things that remain in the image. Furthermore (…) To compose in a minimal way, I decide what it is that I wish to convey – what is it in the scene that I want the viewer to focus their attention upon, and what emotion I want to evoke. Then, I try to minimize anything else that competes with that. The composition becomes critical – specifically how the main elements interact with any lesser elements, the horizon, the positive and negative spaces created by their placement, the edges of the frame and the tension or harmony created by the positions of everything. (…) Please note that when I say “main element” I do not mean “subject matter”. My subject matter is the feeling I am trying to convey. The objects in my images are simply supporting characters.(…)
Well there you have it. Just trying to capture what I feel when looking at the sea by averaging our experience over time and trying to eliminate all other elements that can distract the viewer from the essence.
Part 1 of a series
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
f/14
ISO100
13 mm
120s (2min0sec) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5 - Silver Efex Pro 2
Other Post processing equipment:
Wacom Intuos 4 tablet for some accurate editing.
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Strobist info :
Cross light with an octabox (90 cm) on the right side with a Godox Qt600 II at 1/4.
Background vignet with a Godox Qt600II with basic diffuser and a 20 degres honeycomb grid at 1/16.
Well I had the chance to shoot with the 65mm F5.6 Lens with the Fuji GX680 IIIS Medium Format Camera. Shot with one light source, the Alienbee B1600 with a Silver Umbrella towards the right of the model, pointing downwards. The rest was enhanced in photoshop.
DK
Strobist info :
One main light with a QT600II Godox strobe in front of the model, just over my head in an octabox (at 1/2 at 1.5 meters of the model 2.2 height). One fill light with a QT600II Godox strobe on the left side of the model in a 80 cm x 80 cm modifier.
Post Processing :
Eyes retouch, Dodge and Burn, Contrast, Color search, Cartoon Touch.
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A shot for my friends William and Béa. We were looking for two or three shots to make a big print for their music concerts. It was fun.
Strobist info :
One light on the right side, a GODOX QT600ii through a strip box (full Power) - . It was triggered with a GODOX X1-T.
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Explored on October 18, 2013
El Peñón de Salobreña.
Salobreña, Granada, Andalucia, Spain.
Technical data: Nikon D800 | Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED at 15mm | Hitech Pro Stop 10 IR | Lucroit filter holder | Induro AT213 tripod + BHL2 ballhead.
208s (3min 28s) | f/11 | ISO 100.
Processing: Lightroom 5 | Photoshop CS6 | Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
Wacom Intuos 5 pen tablet.
Salobreña is a small-sized town located on Granada’s Costa Tropical. Two main parts may be distinguished in Salobreña. The old town is a cluster of white houses in an actual maze narrow streets, allies, and small squares that sits on a rocky prominence inland. The remains of a medieval Moorish castle that tops the hill is arguably the best known tourist attraction in Salobreña. Spreading from the bottom of the old town along the coastline, there is an aggregate of hideous new developments that house tens of thousands of visitors every summer.
El Peñón de Salobreña is a rock formation situated between two of the five beaches of the municipality. Jutting more than one hundred meters into the Mediterranean Sea, it provides an assortment of vantage points perched on its rough slopes from where sunsets can be enjoyed at its fullest.
Even though I have spent most of my summer vacations and frequent weekends in Salobreña for many years, I did not seem to truly appreciate its beauty at the time. I believe some time and distance were needed for me to develop a deeper appreciation for what I still consider home.
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Strobist info :
One light facing the model on his left side, a GODOX AD200 through a small octabox at 1/32 power.
One light behind the model on his right side behind and higher in a small diffuser + blue gel a GODOX AD200 through a small octabox at 1/128 power.
Triggered with a GODOX X1-T.
I thought this shot was amazing and deserved to be like a painting.
Strobist info :
Main light on the left side / Octabox / about 2.2 m high and 1m on the left side form main axis / 1/2 +0.3.
Fill light / Softbox 80cm*80cm / about 2.2 m high and 1m on the right side from main axis / 1/4 +0.7.
Background created in PS.
Strobist info :
- 1 Mainlight : 1 godox AD600 through octabox zoom at 50mm in TTL mode.
- 2 bare speedlight on each side of the model, a little behind the subject Zoom at 105 mm and in TTL mode.
Post-processing : i modified the hue, saturation and increased the shadows. I added a texture using Topaz texture.
A year ago, my brother, Mike Hankey, visited me for the month of April and we drove all around Arizona and into Utah. One of our first stops was Monument Valley. I thought of that trip again today, after receiving a Wacom Intuos 5 from Mike. He donated it to me, because he wasn't getting enough use of it in his own excellent photography hobby. Thanks again, Big Kahuna! You're the best brother in the world! Wish we still were out shooting the sights together with our Nikons!
This wacom intuos 3 is one of those things you buy thinking "do i really need this." After a few years i just could not imagine trying to clean images up without it, so i feel it deserves a mention on this 365 journey.
Strobist.... sb28@1/2 through socked beauty dish directly above camera for the fill and a sb28@1/8 bare boomed above me aimed at back of head. Hat needed to be added to stop bald head glare!
This is my side of our home office (best viewed - large).... Almost exactly five years ago I took another photo of what my desk looked like and what kinds of technology I was using at home. Well it's been five years and I just retired most of what I was using... now I'm an Apple convert and my home setup is much simpler (it's amazing the cabling that was pulled out, and how quiet things are... will be interesting to see if the power bill drops).
Click Here to see a close up version of what's on my desk.
Basically I have two computers, a desktop, laptop and a third machine functioning as a storage server. They are networked together by an HP ProCurve 8 port gigabit ethernet switch, with a Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato and functioning as a dedicated firewall and router and an Airport Extreme serving up wireless internet access.
This is just a fantastic setup for doing just about any photographic related computer task one could think of... It's wonderful to edit with this hardware and setup. Aside from the Mac Pro which is lighting fast, the real treat is seeing images on the amazingly accurate and sharp 30" NEC display, this monitor is quite a bit above and beyond the Apple Cinema Display (as well as the Dell and HP offerings).
On Switching to Mac: I've been a Microsoft user since MS-DOS 3.3 and have worked professionally as a server engineer and systems designer for Microsoft Servers for approx. 15 years, and Microsoft has come a long way... some of their newest offerings are darn impressive. But the reality is for me, at home... I want something that is simple, powerful and is best geared for photography. Additionally I wanted something that was simpler and doesn't result in me having to rebuild the system once a year or so because of something silly happening.
I've been half switched for a bit more than three months and so far it's been fantastic... there is a bit of a learning curve and somethings are kind of annoying, but overall it's been wonderful and the most enjoyable computing experience of my life. Besides, if I really need to run Windows I have Windows 7 Ultimate running in side a VMWare virtual machine.
Desktop:
Mac Pro Hex Core Xeon 3.33Ghz. CPU
12GB RAM (OWC Upgrade)
2x50GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE Solid State Drives (SSD)
4x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives
NEC 30" LCD3090WQXi-BK LCD Monitor & SpectraView Calibration Software
NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID Card
Vantec NexStar3 External Hard Drive Enclosure.
2 x Western Digital Studio Edition 500GB External Hard Drive
Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
Microsoft LaserMouse
Wacom intuos3 4x6" Tablet
Klipsch promedia 2.1 Speakers
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Notebook:
Apple 15" MacBook Pro
Core i5 2.4Ghz. CPU (not worth spending the $$ on the Core i7, especially when this won't be my primary editing machine and especially when $300 only buys me 10% more performance)
8GB of RAM (OWC Upgrade)
500GB 7200RPM Segate Momentus XT Hard Drive (this is a great drive that comes with a 4GB SSD cache)
High Res Screen (but not the Anti-Glare screen, clients love looking at images on the glossy screen)
G-Tech G Drive mini 500GB Hard Drive
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 1TB External Hard Drive
Apple Magic Mouse
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Storage Server:
AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 Dual Core
ASUS A8N-E 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Motherboard
2GB Corsair Memory
Cooler Master CMStacker Case (this thing can hold a LOT of hard drives)
Cooler Master Real Power RS-450-ACLX 450W Power Supply
Sony Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive
NEC DVD Burner Black ND-3540A
2 x 500GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
2 x 320GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
3 x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives (RAID5 Array)
Running FreeNAS
Networking:
HP ProCurve 10/100/1000Mbps Switch 1800-8G
Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato firmware (this is just functioning as a firewall and router)
Apple Airport Extreme Wireless Access Point
Misc:
Apple iPhone 3G
Blackberry Tour 9630
Calumet UDMA Firewire CF Reader
Canon MX7600 Mulit-Function Printer (out of frame)
Garmin eTrex Summit HC
NEC SpectraView - Color Calibrator (basically a customized X-Rite Eye One Display 2 colorimeter for the NEC monitor)
APC SmartUPS 1400 UPS Power Backup
HumanScale 4G Ergonomic Keyboard Tray (designed to fit the Microsoft Natural Keyboards)
Herman Miller Mirra Office Chair (out of frame)
What's Next:
Next year I plan to add a few more things to the mix... including
Data Expansion - Adding a OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 quad bay external drive array with four 3TB Hard Drives. Will be used for data backup.
Second Monitor - Will be adding either a 22" or 24" secondary NEC monitor, which will make layout and album design work a bit nicer.
Software: I want to point out that 100% of the software that is run on these systems has been paid for and is all legal like. This wasn't always the case but I do like knowing that it's all legit ... I think it's highly hypocritical for photographers or other content creators to complain about someone stealing their images or using images without their permission if they use pirated or not properly licensed software.
wedding | portrait | event | commercial
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Made with natural light (window and sun).
Many tweaks : skin work, contrast, background, channel mixer.
Version channel mixer + VSCO preset (VSCO Portra 400-3/Fade+++/Grain+/Vignette+/DR Lows Boost - Pat portrait)
2011.01.01 | Silent Wood Place
A few months ago, I bought Grace, an Apple iMac, but never posted an updated desk photo. However, after an impromptu Geek Night™ at lefthandrob's — which included Grace going to Hagerstown — I decided a photo was in order after the desk reconstruction.
2011 will be the Year of Learning for me, with plans to begin my college career — at 31 years old — commencing in the Fall semester. Beyond that, I have plenty of Algebra II, English, Japanese, photography post, and C/Objective-C to study over the next few months. Having an open and clean workspace will be of great value to me going forward.
Desk
The desk itself is comprised of two birch VIKA ARTUR trestles and a frosted glass VIKA GLASHOLM table top. The lighting underneath is created by four LAGRA spotlights. A MARKUS swivel chair rounds out the IKEA hardware.
A 4x6 photo of whilowhisper and I at Northwestern University — visiting her sister — sits framed on the left of the desk.
I finally got around to trying an attempt of cleaning up the HVAC power cable. It's a tad cleaner than before.
Computer and Setup
Name: Grace
• 27-inch Apple iMac Core i7 that has been upgraded to 12 GB of RAM.
• Japanese Apple Wireless Keyboard
• Logitech Performance Mouse MX multi-button mouse that can be used on glass surfaces
• Large Wacom Intuos
• Pantone huey Pro
The wallpaper/desktop has been uploaded: cl.ly/1o0F1C1j3v103c1A382r
For better quality audio, I use a pair of Bose QuietComfort 2 headphones or a Sennheiser MM 400 stereo bluetooth headset.
Sitting on a Twelve South BackPack is a 2 TB Western Digital My Book Studio and a 500 GB Western Digital My Passport Studio.
「Day 1 of 365」
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Strobist info :
Main light :
On the right side (quite middle axis), a GODOX QT600ii through an octabox 90 cm (1/1 Power).
All was triggered with a GODOX X1-T.
Post processing :
skin soft retouch / eyes work / Dodge and Burn / Color search / Add a small vignet.
Artwork by Dan McPharlin.
This idea for this one was really the colour. I'm still not entirely satisfied with it but it will do for now. For those of you interested in technique, the background was gouache and the red craft was drawn with a Wacom Intuos tablet.
Best viewed large.
amazing sunset at Marseille, France.
i think my photography and processing got up to the next level thanks to Serge Ramelli free tutorials on youtube
Shooting:
Exposure: 1/500
Aperture: f/4.8
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 10 mm
RAW
Gear:
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'Libertas'
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, an Italian-French sculptor, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
Captured handheld from a moving boat with Canon 5DMK3 and Canon 70-300mm lens. The rest happened in my imagination.
Processed with Lightroom 4.4, Photoshop 5.1 & CC, Nik Software suite of plugins. I used Wacom Intuos 3 tablet & HP portable workstation running Windows 7 x64
Finally Photoshop CS4, Painter 11 and my new Wacom Intuos 4.
It's all getting used again .. new settings, but I'm well again practice.
Greetings Jaap
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Strobist info :
Main light :
On the right side, a GODOX QT600ii through an octabox 90 cm (1/2 Power).
Fill light :
On the rear of the camera, a GODOX QT600ii through an lightbox (60 cm x 60 cm) at 1/2 power.
Hair/Hat light :
Above the model, a GODOX AD200 through a small octabox at 1/4 power.
All was triggered with a GODOX X1-T.
Post processing :
skin soft retouch / / Dodge and Burn / Color search / Add a small vignet on the wall / Smoke and false ashes on the cigar.
Seattle, Washington, USA :: © Doug van Kampen, 2011
6-shot Pano, stitched in CS5
D700, 17-35 f/2.8 lens, 1/40th @ f/2.8, ISO 1600 (each)
Post Production in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Nik Color Efex Pro3, Wacom Intuos 4
Hit "L" on your keyboard to view large.
Freehand digital artwork painted in Sketchbook Pro with Intuos Pro tablet. Portrait of Teresa Heal for Julia Kay's Portrait Party.
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Strobist info :
One light facing the model on his left side, a GODOX AD200 through a small octabox at 1/32 power.
One light behind the model on his right side behind and higher in a small diffuser + blue gel a GODOX AD200 through a small octabox at 1/128 power.
Triggered with a GODOX X1-T.