Lessons
You look (tilt)-shifty
One of the less practical for every day use pieces of camera equipment is a tilt-shift lens. The lens lets you tilt or shift the plane of focus so its not parallel to the lens to create a number of effects. Normally this is used for distortion correction when shooting buildings from the vantage point [...]
Starry Night
Awhile ago I made these cutouts that shape the bokeh (out of focus parts of a photo) of my shots. I’ve never really had a chance to use it, so I thought I’d give it a shot tonight. Basically, I went outside and focused up close to throw a light in the background really out [...]
HDR at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.
I took the photos for this during the first few minutes of the third quarter during today’s game. There is a bit of ghosting on the bottom because the people were moving around a lot, obviously the affect is lessened the further away everyone gets. I’m really aching to try this in a high contrast [...]
High Dynamic Range at Bobby Dodd Stadium
Tonight I’m shooting the Georgia Tech football game against Jacksonville State University, which I coincidentally helped cover when I was interning in Anniston. Anyways, I got to the game fairly early to avoid traffic and decided to play around with high dynamic range imaging. HDR involves taking multiple photos of the same scene at different [...]
Jacksonvillians do it a day early
Shot some fireworks that went on tonight in Jacksonville. This is the first time I’ve successfully shot fireworks, granted the last time I tried was last 4th of July, but having a year in between shoots gives you time to think about how you’ll do it. I was basically exposing for the fireworks. I set [...]
Middle School Math finally comes in handy
I found this tutorial today about how to turn a standard TI-83 graphing calculator into an intervalometer. An intervalometer lets you set the camera to shoot a frame at regular intervals over a predetermined amount of time. Afterwards, you use any video editing program to stitch the images together to get time lapse. I found [...]
DIY – Snoots
At the Southern Short Course this weekend I got to listen to David Hobby, of Strobist.com fame, teach about using strobe flashes to replace the big light kits most photographers use. Upon arriving home last night I decided to use his DIY approach to lighting and constructed a snoot for my 580 EX II. I [...]
Fun With Light (Part 1)
The lack of anything exciting to shoot led me to try and find new ways of entertaining myself. In this case, it was practicing light painting around my house. These are shots of my living room that show the difference between a natural light exposure and a light painted exposure using a single strobe unit [...]
