Month: May 2017

I discovered this Tabasco bottle on a table in a shopping center in Fresno, CA. I used a 60 mm prime lens to take 10 images combining them in post production.

Enjoy and keep on working on your images!

 

I challenge you to continue last weeks exercise. Be creative, try different lenses, different subjects and different light situations.

I picked a fisheye lens and photographed these flowers in my backyard this morning. I just love the orange green contrast in the image.

As always, enjoy your work!

 

Normally, when photographing around a subject I look for contrasts colors. I photographed a subject with just one dominant color, a young tree surrounded by other trees. I created contrast in a different way. I used layer modes that lightened the subject and darkened the background. This contrast made it possible to create this image.

Enjoy and keep on working on your images!

 

The Hydrangea is blooming in my front yard. Early in the morning I took only nine exposures around one blossom. When I overlaid the images I individually not only change the opacity but I also changed the blending modes to create a very vibrant image.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

 

This gazebo was perfect for this exercise. Walking around it I took 38 exposures and stacked them in layers using different blending modes and filters.

enjoy and keep on working on your images!

 

I was photographing in the Mojave desert for a few days. Among other subjects I wandered around this Joshua tree and took 23 exposures. In post production I overlaid the images with various opacities. Finally I used the Topaz Simplify Filter for a final touch of the colors.

Enjoy and keep on working on your images!

 

This weeks exercise is inspired by two photographers, Pep Ventosa and Stephen D’Agostino. Simply speaking, Pep Ventosa walked around a subject and took several exposures which he combined in post production to a impressionistic looking images. Take a look at D’Agostino’s description of the “in the Round images”  http://www.dagostino.ca/tag/pep-ventosa-technique/

It is important that you find a subject that you can walk around at least partially. I did a full circle around this fountain photographing it. Secondly, when you overlay your images you need to work with your opacity. So far I used opacity levels in the range of 6-50 or so.

Experiment and enjoy!

I tried to create the feeling of mystery with the help of my flash photographing through the large branches of a tree.

Enjoy and keep on working on your images!

 

I photographed this “Morning Glory” in my backyard yesterday morning using two small strobes. Do you have any idea where I put them?

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

 

Late Saturday afternoon I was photographing in Yosemite Valley when i saw a young photographer photographing Yosemite falls with a pop-up flash. I thought, do you have any idea how far your flash can reach? I thought I try to test my little Meike 320 walk-around flash. I removed the diffuser, set the lens to f3.5 and the ISO setting to 800. This is what I got. Not bad! Enjoy and keep on photographing!