Decorated Room 04

Decorated Room 04

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.

Decorated Room 01

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!

Decorated Room 01

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.

Two Light Sources 01

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!

Two Light Sources 01

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!

 

Decorations 10

Decorations 10

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!