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Wampler Transmission
Walters, OK
Note: Brightness/Contrast edits with Flickr Photo Editor
Foggy morning at a campsite within the Greene-Sullivan State Forest, located near Loogootee, IN. This site is located on Wampler Lake.
Wampler's Lake is in W. J. Hayes State Park near Onsted in the Irish Hills
of southeast Michigan. The lake is the most popular visitor destination in
the park.
I stopped by the lake on October 20, after visiting a classic car owner
who lives nearby.
been absent for a while - been away
hope everyone is well
featured photo is by Sondra Wampler
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Did a portfolio shoot with Madison McCurdy in Saint Louis yesterday. Wonderful person and a great model. That's the Old Saint Louis Courthouse in the background. This was the last shot of the day ...
Strobist Info: Exposed for the dome in the background first (1/10, ISO 500, f/2.8), then I brought up a 430 EX II (flash) shot through a 43" white umbrella camera right to properly expose Maddi. Triggered via PocketWizards.
Another test shot my daughter and I did for an "album cover" we're shooting for one of her friends. Meagan, yet another friend, modeled for us.
Lighting: Canon 430 EX II (flash) with a 1/2 CTO gel shot into a 28" Westcott Apollo softbox camera left. Blue hour sunlight in the background.
This one's sort-of an outtake, although it's actually one of my favorites.
I wanted some of the images from my recent shoot for Peacock Plume to have a lifestyle feel to them, so we, and a large fraction of the rest of Austin, headed for the food trailers on South Congress (in Austin). One of the people passing by got Ashley laughing.
Model: Ashley Elgie
Make-up and Hair: Sarah Shade
Wardrobe and Jewelry: Holly and Cara from the Peacock Plume boutique.
Strobist Info: AB800 in a 28" softbox camera left for key, mid-day sunlight behind the model for rim.
One of my favorite Flickr contacts is Dustin Diaz. I love his work. He's doing this awesome 365 project complete with lighting setup shots. Very cool of him, and very inspiring. I've learned a ton just looking at his work. Hope to meet him and shoot some day. Anyway, I needed some inspiration, so this is my attempt at a Dustin-Diaz-style shot. Thanks for sharing Dustin.
P.S. Even with all the inspiration, I forgot to shoot one of Dustin's setup shots. Doh!
Lighting and Setup Info: First, the glass is setting on a 3'x3' sheet of black acrylic. Gotta love that stuff. Makes for great reflections. Second, I created a makeshift 3-sided box around the glass out of three white cards (2'x3' foam boards bought at Hobby Lobby). One card to the right, one to the left, and one above the glass. The reflection of the white cards created the highlights on the the stem of the glass. Gotta love Hobby Lobby, specular highlights, and cheap white cards (roughly in that order). I placed the acrylic sheet on a ceder chest I bought for $100 at an auction 20-some odd years ago. You needed to know that. Third, I placed a bunch of Christmas "Icicles" (things you hang on a Christmas tree) in the background for that colorful bokeh effect. I bought those a WalMart after Christmas. Gotta love Christmas and WalMart (definitely in that order). Finally, I shot a SB-26 (small Nikon strobe) into the "Icicles", and I placed a Canon flash on the ground behind the glass aimed up into the white box to light glass. Both of the strobes where triggered using a Skyport transmitter/receivers.
This one made it to the Explore page (up to #11 so far ;-).
Taken at the Austin Strobist Meetup on February 17, 2008. If you look closely, you'll see the strobists reflected in her glasses.
Strobist Info: Gel'd strobe directly behind model. Natural light from front. Fill flash bounced off ceiling.
Edit: This is the first photo of mine to reach "1,000 views"! It happened on April 17, 2008!
Model: Cara
Kelly and Amberly made a fantastic snow sculpture in Wampler's front yard. The Great White Whale was given an icicle tusk (actually it's a tooth) and a narwhal was made.
Another one of my shots of Doa from the first day of SXSW.
Model: Doa (MM# 719732)
Assistant: Peter Talke (his blog)
Lighting: Natural plus a Canon 430 EX II (flash) with a 1/4 CTO gel shot into a LumiQuest Softbox III above the model.
I give credit to Dave Clarke who insisted I leave Wampler's warm, cozy house for the icy outdoors to take some long exposure shots of Mt Adams glowing in the moonlight. He even drove me to the field where I set up my tripod and climbed around on big snow banks while experimenting with exposure times. This is a fifteen second exposure.
The big dipper is directly above the mountain, glowing and snowy in the moonlight.
My first long exposure nighttime shot. I'm inspired to take more of course.
How I love Trout Lake, Washington!
Model: Sophia
Hair: Rachael Dunn from Bella Salon
Make-up: Kim Toht Hogan from Bella Salon
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Lighting: Natural
This one's from a lunch-time shoot I did a few months ago with Jenna Sab.
Strobist Info: 430 EX II shot through a 43" umbrella in front of Jenna for key. Nikon SB-26 behind her on camera left for rim.
This shot, of an Orange Crush soda bottle, was inspired by Jay's beer bottle shots (thanks Jay!). For info on how to shoot a shot like this, see Light Science & Magic by Hunter, Biver, and Fugua.
Strobist Info: Shot against a black card that barely filled the frame. Behind the back card (about a 1 1/2 feet away) was a white card illuminated with a Canon 580 EX II on 1/8th power. The white card is what you see reflected by the sides of the bottle. To illuminate the label I reflected the light from a SB-26 on 1/32 power off of another white card held slightly above and to the right of the bottle. To keep the liquid light colored, I taped a bottle-shaped piece of white paper to the back of the bottle (otherwise the black background made it look too dark).
I darkened the background and touched up a few blemishes in Photoshop.
By the way, the bottle is resting on a 3' x 3' sheet of black acrylic I bought at Regal Plastics in North Austin for $33. Very handy.
Oh, and I left the price tag on the cap on purpose ($1.25 as of two years ago). I like it. ;-)
This one made the "Explore" page. Sweet.
This is my son's first electric guitar, bought with his own money. He's planing to sell it on craigslist to raise money to for a new "axe" (he's outgrown this one). If you know someone who'd like a good starter guitar, let me know.
Lighting Info: Check out the setup shot. I placed two white boards on either side of the guitar and fired a flash, on full power, into each of them. The edge highlights are the white card reflections. The background is a couple of black cards. That's pretty much it, although it took a bit of post processing to darken the background and remove all of the extra stuff in the image.
This one made the Explore page.
This is the setup I used to take my smoke photos. It consists of a Canon Digital Rebel with a 18-200mm Sigma lens connected to my laptop running Canon's remote-shooting software. I triggered the shutter using a remote switch. The background is a yard of black velvet. I attached two "gobos" (pieces of cardboard) to my off-camera strobe (flash) using velcro. The gobos prevented light from the strobe from flaring into the lense or onto the background.
Here's what I do in post:
* I use a black brush to to insure the areas outside of the smoke are completely black (that's about all the burning I do).
* I use the healing tool to remove any distracting specs of dust within the smoke.
* I either apply color to the smoke (using a gradient layer for example), or color shift and saturate the existing colors. For example, I used the "color shift and saturate" technique in this image. I tend to prefer working with the existing tones over mapping colors onto the smoke. I think the resulting colors are more subtle and tend to blend in a more natural way.
* Sometimes I sharpen the image (add local contrast) a small amount using an unsharp mask, but sharping, and color saturation for that matter, increases the image's noise. Smoke images already look noisy because they're images of small particles of smoke, so you've got to go easy on the image manipulation. Sometimes blurring the smoke is actually the right choice.
* Sometimes I'll also play with the image's color curves.
Model: Ginnie Kennedy
Hair: Rachael Dunn
Make-up: Kelsey Hansen
Wardrobe: Staci Rizner
Assistant: Alex Suarez
Assistant: Jake McKee
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Location: The Goodnight on Anderson Lane
Strobist Info: AB800 in a 86" Paul C. Buff Soft Silver Parabolic Umbrella with diffusion fabric on the front from camera left for key. Another 430 EX II in a Lumiquest Softbox III camera right for rim.
Had the privilege of doing a beauty shoot with my make-up-artist friend Adrienne Pitkin.
Hair: Liz Nevin (www.liznevin.com)
Make-up: Adrienne Pitkin (www.makeupbyadrienne.com/)
Strobist Info: AB800 in a beauty dish with a 30 degree grid from above. Silver reflector from below. Canon 430 EX II as rim from camera left.
This time I simply dropped the red and blue glasses from slightly different heights onto the green glass. Made quite a mess. ;-) As you can see, there was already plenty of water on the table from previous attempts.
Lighting Info: 580 EX II on full power camera right shot into an umbrella. SB 26 on full power camera left shot through an umbrella. I used a 3'x3' sheet of black acrylic for the table and some black velvet as the background. The "glasses" are actually plastic. Good thing too, because they ended up crashing to the ground multiple times.
Next time I'm planning to put up two sheets (or white shower curtains) on the sides to act as defusers (instead of using umbrellas). I don't like the reflections of the umbrellas in the sides of the glass.
Post Processing: I cleaned up a lot of small dust specks using the spot healing and clone stamp tools in Photoshop. I also selected the background and painted it black to remove any stray specks.
This one made it to the Explore page.
Model: Jordan Underwood
Hair: Rachael Dunn Hair Design
Make-up: Kelsey Hansen
Wardrobe: Staci Rizner Costume and Prop
Assistant: Alex Suarez
Assistant: Jake McKee
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Available Light
Model: Davie Vaughan
Assistant: Andy (atmtx) Thanks for coming Andy!
Lighting: We shot this inside a pub on 6th street in Austin. The light you see on her face was from the huge doorway behind the camera. I used a Canon 430 EX II (flash) with 1/2 CTO gel to light up the background.
Setup shot #1 for "Flower, Wine, and Glass" and "Oranges Float".
What little I've learned about lighting glass I learned in Kindergarten? No, I learned it from "Lighting Science and Magic". Wonderful book.
Here's are the main issues I had to overcome:
1) Contrast: The sides of the glass need to be separated from the black background. To do that, they need to reflect white light. To do that, they need to "see" white light. To do that, the background has to *just* fill the frame, and the rest of the background and sides have to be bright white. As you can see here, I used a sheet of flexible black foam (bought at any craft store) as the black background. The white background (and sides) are a combination of white foam cards and a "science fair" board (also bought at a craft store). I fired a Canon 580 EX II on full power into the back board.
2) Lens Flare: Shooting a small black background back lit in white is a sure way to get lens flair. To kill that, I added two black cards (not seen in this setup shot, but in the next). That way the camera never sees the white background, only its reflections in the glass.
In summary, I created a light box with a black front facing the camera. Inside the box is a small seamless black background on which I placed the glass.
Model: Daley Moore
Hair: Rachael Dunn Hair Design
Make-up: Kelsey Hansen
Wardrobe: Staci Rizner Costume and Prop
Assistant: Alex Suarez
Assistant: Jake McKee
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Strobist Info: AB800 in a 86" Paul C. Buff Parabolic Umbrella (with a sock) camera left.
This model is thinked to be two model in one, the golden fish is obtained making a single new fold to the sparrow tail and vice-versa.
The aim of this model are children's labs.
The science teacher James Wampler is teaching his children transcription and translation - how small mutations in the DNA code can potentially create significant changes in an organism - so he challenged me to think to a model where a difference in ONE single fold of the instructions would give you a very different end result.
So I got this one. What do you think?
My daughter is a high-school senior this year. A couple of her friends have ask me to shoot their senior portraits, which has been a blast.
This is Sophie, a lovely young lady of Persian decent. She and her grandmother love Audrey Hepburn, so for our first look, she channeled Audrey for us.
Model: Sophie
Hair: Rachael Dunn from Bella Salon
Make-up: Kim Toht Hogan from Bella Salon
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Lighting Info: Natural "north side of the building" kinda light mid day.
Rothrock State Forest, Huntingdon County.
The view looks southeast toward the Standing Stone Creek drainage area. Broad Mountain rises in the distance; at its base is the Alan Seeger Natural Area, a protected tract of old-growth forest.
The glasses were pulled from left to right using fishing line as seen in this photo. No glasses were actually broken in the making of this image. ;-)
Lighting Info: Canon 580 EX II camera right on 1/2 power shot into an umbrella. SB-26 on 1/2 power camera left shot through an umbrella. Black acrylic table top and black velvet backdrop.
This one made the explore page.
Model: Daley Moore
Hair: Rachael Dunn Hair Design
Make-up: Kelsey Hansen
Wardrobe: Staci Rizner Costume and Prop
Assistant: Alex Suarez
Assistant: Jake McKee
Assistant: Sarah Wampler
Location: The Goodnight in Austin Texas
Strobist Info: Canon 430 EX II in a 40" Softlighter camera left for key. Another 430 EX II in a Lumiquest Softbox III camera right for rim.
The Westlake High School Choir in Austin is performing the musical "Bye Bye Birdie" this weekend. I had the privilege of shooting the production photos that included portraits of the cast. Alexandra wanted a shot of the bows in her hair. ;-)
Lighting: Canon 480 EX II (flash) with 1/4 CTO gel shot into a 43" umbrella camera left, above, and slightly behind the model. Triggered with PocketWizards. The light bounced off of her white shirt to create the fill you see under her chin.
My son, the guitarist, is selling his trumpet on craigslist. I thought it would be fun to see how well I could shoot it. It was challenging, given that it reflects everything, but that's a good thing too (lots of nice specular highlights!).
Strobist Info: Canon 580 EX II camera left on 1/4 power (I think) shot through an umbrella. Black velvet background with white cards just out of sight of the camera on both sides. The white cards give the edges of the metal something to reflect. To prevent you from seeing me in the reflection, I cut a hole the size of my lens in a large white board. I hid behind the board when I took the shot, and then cloned out the lens (a small back dot) in Photoshop. Pretty easy. I'm still not all that pleased with the reflections in the bell though. There was too much light from the strobe/umbrella contaminating the "studio" (the smallest room in my house) which resulted in reflections of the room showing up in the bell. I'm thinking a reflective umbrella (instead of a shoot through) might have helped control the spill by focusing more of the light on the trumpet. Something to try next time ...
This one made the Explore page.
Last night I was invited by two amazing local photographers, Steve Wampler and Michael Connell, to go shoot with them at a tester event here in Austin, Texas. Bella Salon and Spa was having their stylists do some test shoots to prepare for an upcoming fashion event. It was a lot of fun, and a little crazy, with all the stylists prepping models' hair and makeup. The original area to shoot in was a little confined and restricting so I decided to wander around the salon until I found a space to setup some speed lights and do my thing. We were basically taking headshots for the stylists to review their work. Steve Wampler is the king of this, he does a great job and I knew that he would capture everything that the clients wanted. So this gave me a great deal of freedom to wander off and play.
So I setup in the backroom, had a great time shooting back there, but eventually decided to move things around the shop. There are lots of fun pics coming from this night, I look forward to sharing them.
This image however, was after the gear was put aside and my friend Michael Connell @txshooter was playing in the far back area. I saw he was shooting in this area full of mirrors. Inspired by what I saw him working with I asked if I could snap a few shots and shifted the model so that she was leaning against the mirror. The split face makeup made this ideal for the concept.
So this was shot with ambient light, high-iso, and a slowish shutter. But the concept really felt like it worked out so I think I'll try this again in future.
Thanks again to Mike, Steve, and all the crew at Bella Salon and Spa. You guys were all great. Look for Mike and Steve's shots from thsi event, they are sure to be stellar!
Twitter: @lifebypixels
Favian and Jennifer dance the Salsa. Can you tell? ;-)
Models/Dancers: Favian and Jennifer
Collaborators: CommonVee and Mr Dom
Lighting Info: A single Canon 580 EX II shot through my Do-It-Yourself beauty dish held above the dancers. Shot from a step ladder.
Processing: I did some saturation and curves adjustments in Canon's Digital Photo Professional.
Location: Go Dance studio in Austin Texas.
Quick product-type shot inspired by:
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Never did something like this before, figured there was no reason not to try.
Strobist info : 1 Canon speedlight bounced off some sort of nearly-full-circular "wall" made out of papers that were about to be recycled.
Setup : Here
Little Gull - digiscoped video - 25 March 2016 - Wamplers Lake, Norvell Township, Jackson County & Cambridge Township, Lenawee County, MI
So Bella Salon & Spa was rehearsing for a fashion event coming up soon here in Austin, Texas. They had reached out to local photography guru Steven Wampler, (look him up on Flickr) and you'll see why. He's a powerhouse strobist like photography who nails these technical and perfectly executed lit portraits.
While Steven was in the main area shooting headshots I decided to wander off into the back area of the salon. There I found a room dedicated to shampooing hair, prepping for coloring, etc. It was pretty neat. The first thing I noticed was this shelf for storage in the background that had all these angular lines. I took a test shot and liked how it looked with the 85mm f1.8. The depth of field kept some pattern and angle detail without being too overpowering. In fact what I liked most was having this rigid formed pattern and geometry juxtapozed against this more fluid, shaped, curving, organicly formed hairstyle for each of the stylists.
This young model did two looks for the night, sadly I only shot the first one, but she was great to work. I have a black and white of this image I also really like, I had a hard time deciding between the two. But, because these photos will be used for the stylists work in both makeup and hair, I thought it was important to see the colors of their work.
Thanks again to everyone at Bella Salon & Spa for the accomidating workspace and kind support.
Strobist info:
85mm f1.8 lens
Two SB800s shot both at 1/64th and 1/16th power. One through a 20" softbox photographer's left and a 60" shoot through umbrella photographer's right.
twitter: @lifebypixels
I've been wanting to try photographing smoke for a while. I finally bought some incense sticks and proceeded to smoke-up and stink-up my home office. Graham Jeffery has an excellent blog entry on how to photograph smoke. If you're interested, I'd head over there to see his photos and read about his technique. I'll post some comments on my blog when I get a chance. I colorized some of these images in Photoshop. Those that are more subtlety colored (about half of them) show the natural colors of the smoke itself (with some saturation added in a few cases).
All of my smoke images were created with two light sources. The first was natural light coming through an window on the left. I doubt the natural light contributed much (if anything), because my shutter speed was 1/250 and the f-stop was f/10. To the right of the smoke I placed a Canon Speedlite set to full power. Those setting pretty much nuked any ambient light. To prevent any light from spilling onto the background, and flaring into the lens, I attached a couple of 4" X 8" cardboard "gobos" to the sides of my flash (using Velcro). I wish now that I had taken a setup shot. Oh well, next time.
Mildred Gerda Ayers, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Jennie Wilhelmina (Nelson) Ayers, was born 12 Jan 1899 in Chicago, Illinois and died 2 Jan 1981 in Wellington, Kansas. She was married twice. On 5 Jun 1920, in Salina, Kansas, she married Norris Wesley Ott (1900-1968). This marriage appears to have ended in divorce. They had a son, August Ayres “Buster” (1921-1991). Her second marriage was to Elmer Raymond Wampler (1900-1972). Mildred and Elmer are buried in Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Wellington, Kansas. Photographer is Holgerson, Chicago, Illinois. Cabinet Card.
I bought some cheapo acrylic glasses at Wal-Mart for all of two dollars each. I won't feel bad if I break'm while dropping, sloshing, and banging them against each other while taking some photos.
These are test shots. I'm trying to figure out how to best light them. Although I like the results, the setup isn't flexible enough for the dynamic shots I've got in mind. Gonna hafta think about it a bit more ...
Lighting Info: See the two setup shots here and here.
Post Processing: Removed stray light from the background by selecting it (all but the glass), feathering the selection by 2 pixels, and then painting the selection with a black brush. It also works to create a "Brightness and Contrast" layer from the selection and set the brightness to -100. I also removed a few dust specks using the clone-stamp tool and the spot-healing tool.
This one made it to Explore.
Matheran is a mysterious place!
It is part of the Deccan Traps, that extend till Mahabaleshwar from Bombay. One can see the ages and ages of Basaltic Lava formation in this photograph, once the greens are all dead, this place would stand evidence to the history of this land!
Deccan Traps, India : 17-24N, 43-47E, Elevation: 4,000 feet (1,200 m)
The Deccan Traps[Maharashtra, India] are one of the largest volcanic provinces in the world. The term 'traps' is derived from the Swedish word for stairs (trappa, or sometimes trapp), referring to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region.
Link to Shiva Crater
A large impact crater has been recently reported in the sea floor off the west coast of India. Called the Shiva crater, it has also been dated at sixty-five million years, The researchers suggest that the impact may have been the triggering event for the Deccan Traps as well as contributing to the acceleration of the Indian plate in the early Tertiary. However, opinions differ among the geologic community and this theory is not unanimous.
It consists of more than 6,500 feet (>2,000 m) of flat-lying basalt lava flows and covers an area of nearly 500,000 square km, (roughly the size of the states of Washington and Oregon combined) in west-central India.
Estimates of the original area covered by the lava flows are as high as 15,00,000 square km. The volume of basalt is estimated to be 12,275 cubic miles (512,000 cubic km)(the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens produced 1 cubic km of volcanic material).
The Deccan Traps are flood basalts similar to the Columbia River basalts of the northwestern United States.
This photo shows a thick stack of basalt lava flows south east of Matheran, Photograph by (c) Baajhan, Oct18, 2007.
The Deccan basalts may have played a role in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Most of the basalt was erupted between 65 and 60 million years ago. Gases released by the eruption may have changed the global climate and lead to the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Vocanologists are also trying to understand how such great volumes of lava are erupted. Early models proposed that lava flooded across large areas at extremely rapid rates. Recently proposed models suggested that at least some of the flows are emplaced at gradual rates, lasting months to years.
The Ajanta and Ellora Cave temples were carved into the basalts of this region, north of Aurangabad, MH, India. Some of my Photographs of such Architectural marvels carved out in this Basalt Rock:
1. Ambarnath Temple, North of Bombay
2. Khaneri Caves, SGNP, Borivili, Bombay
The Ajanta Caves were carved over four centuries beginning in 200 BC. More construction was done in the 6th and 7th centuries. The "caves" contain important examples of Buddhist architecture and sculpture. A contact between two lava flows passes through the knees of one of the statues in Ellora, and I'm eagerly waiting to go here to shoot the Stupas and the Beautiful Prayer hall.
Thanks and Credits go to:
Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N., Wampler, J.M., Nayak, P.N., and Deshnukh, S.S., Beane, J.E., Turner, C.A., Hooper, P.R., and Subbarao, K.V., and Walsh, J.N., Krishnan, M.S., Officer, C.B., and Drake, C.L., Rampino, M.R., and Stothers, R.B, S., Thordarson, T., and Keszthelyi, L., f, S., Finnemore, S.L., Walker, G.P.L., and Thordarson, T., White, R.S., and McKenzie, D.P.,
Other Trapps around the word:
# Siberian Traps
# Emeishan Traps
# Ethiopian Highland Basalts
# Columbia River Basalt Group
The maria on the Moon are additional, even more extensive, examples of flood basalts. Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce Oceanic Plateaus.
Other Flickr Photos of Basalt Rock Flow: [All of them are a must see snap. So open those links and have a look :) ]
www.flickr.com/photos/9320105@N03/1536056158/
www.flickr.com/photos/sliding_penguin/1017915669/
www.flickr.com/photos/62989594@N00/863653978/
www.flickr.com/photos/starmist1/1450538241/
www.flickr.com/photos/piedmont_fossil/132690006/
www.flickr.com/photos/theshutterbug/23214453/
www.flickr.com/photos/theshutterbug/23214447/
www.flickr.com/photos/vasant/176012549/
www.flickr.com/photos/dileeppg/429469404/
www.flickr.com/photos/saikat74/374338562/
Update: This photo was published in NWT Mag, Netherlands.
Link: www.flickr.com/photos/tamil/5051854630/in/photostream/