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This is another beautifully decorated room at the McHenry mansion in Modesto, CA. The staff has done an excellent job to decorate the house the way the McHenry family would have done it 100 years ago. This is my last post in 2015. I will be back in the new year with more exercises for photographers. Thank you all for following this blog and I hope have grown in your photography skills.
Enjoy the image and have a Merry Christmas.
This is the decorated staircase inside the McHenry Mansion in Modesto, CA. Enjoy and keep on photographing!
This is another beautiful decorated room at the McHenry mansion in Modesto, CA. Enjoy and keep on working on your images!
I challenge you to either photograph in a decorated house or photograph your own decorated room. In this exercise I ask you to put an emphasis on the room. How does the decoration add to the appearance and appeal of a room? As always, have fun with this exercise!
I went back to the McHenry Mansion in Modesto, CA to work on this exercise. The house is beautifully decorated for Christmas and offers great opportunities for creating interesting images.
There was not much daylight left when I decided to photograph my neighbors birch tree with my flash. The image turned out better than I thought.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Early in the morning I walked into the park with my camera and the flash mounted on a bracket. I used the flash on “full” power and tried a few different f-stops. I settled for f22 on this image.
Enjoy and keep opn experimenting with your camera and flash.
I found this palm tree close to our house and discovered the moon above it. In order to get this image I had to use the flash on “full” power.
Enjoy and keep on working on your images!
This evening I went out with a 70-200mm lens which handels a flash differently than the kit lens. I had to take a few test shots until I finally got the right mixture between natural background light and strobe light.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Photographers study light. They constantly evaluate the light and they use all kinds of light sources to create their image. I challenge you to photograph outside after sunset and before “total” darkness. use the rest of the daylight as your background light and use a flash to illuminate your foreground or subject. That can be very challenging and sometimes you have to try different camera settings. If the background is too dark you may want to increase the ISO setting or open the lens more. As always have some fun with this exercise!
I found a big pile of leaves on my street. I used a flash to illuminate the leaves. In the background you see the typical evening light. camera setting: 55mm lens at ISO200, f5.6, 1/60sec.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
I photographed this image in the dining room of the McHenry mansion in Modesto, CA. I had to photograph without the help of a tripod meaning that I had to crank up the ISO setting quite a bit. In post production I created three images which I then used to create a HDR photograph which I further refined using different plug-ins in Photoshop.
Enjoy and keep on creating great images!