Posts Tagged ‘photography’
One of the few things that frighten me – Photo of the Day #68
March 13th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This is a storm drain right outside my apartment and it gives me the creeps. Even in the daylight, it creeps me out. I don’t know why, it must be a hold-over from childhood of the uhknown because, frankly, I have zero clue what is living inside this thing. We think there might be racoons in there right now but I’m thinking scarier things like gigantic spiders or that crocdile Leatherhead from TMNT. He was a mean ol’ croc and I certainly don’t want him living 100 feet from me. Although he was Cajun so maybe we could cook together.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/3.5
ISO800 @ 1/15s
Flash WB set to A2
Spot metering
Strobist:
LumoPro LP604 camera left, 2 feet from/above drain, angled 45deg downward
Nikon SB-600 @ 1/16
Westcott 451 43″ umbrella
A failed experiment – Photo of the Day #67
March 12th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
I say failed because I just got a new Westcott 43″ collapsible umbrella today around 5PM from MPEX. Tonight, I go shoot around midnight and guess what happens? The slightest of breezes comes by right as I’m taking this shot and blows the stand over. Now I’ve got a busted umbrella and a haunting shot. This is almost what I was going for visually, minus a broken umbrella.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/5.6
ISO400 @ 1/15s
Spot metering
Strobist info:
LumoPro LP604 approximately 7 feet from base of tree, aimed up around 25deg, with me around 10 feet away at a 60deg angle to stand
Nikon SB-600 in commander mode @ 1/8 into umbrella
(Broken) Westcott 2011 43″ collapsible umbrella
Self portrait – Photo of the Day #66
March 11th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
Tonight I decided to put one of my new LumoPro light stands to work. This was taken on the old golf course by our apartment right before some rain started rolling in. How is it that I always catcha good night shot when it’s getting ready to rain?!
By the way, Nikon’s CLS works like absolute crap in the dark. I had the camera approximately 17 feet away and the speedlight wouldn’t fire with a 100% completely clear line-of-sight to the camera. I thought these things had a range of at least 20 to 25 feet?!!?! I had to move the camera in about 10 feet and adjust the focus to ~7ft on the focus ring.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D @ f/4
ISO800 @ 1/15s
Spot metering
Flash WB
Strobist info:
LumoPro LP604 approximately 2 feet behind me
Nikon SB-600 in commander mode, aimed at 90 degrees directly at me
Sto-fen diffuser
An American Icon – Photo of the Day #65
March 10th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This is the Ford emblem on my neighbor’s truck. Between the near pitch black and the sole street light as a light source, this really struck me as somber and iconic at the same time. Very pleased with this shot.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/6s
Spot metering
Flourescent WB @ “Cool white flourescent #4″
Behold…Bubba Sparxxx – Photo of the day #64
February 25th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This was a quick snap of my girlfriend’s Samsung Behold II after Shazam had tagged a song that was playing. I love the color detail from a bright neon OPEN sign on the face of the phone, creates a kind of lucid effect. I thought this was going to turn out poorly based on the on-camera review but at full size, there’s a lot of detail that was captured at ISO800 without a lot of grain, very surprising.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/15s
Matrix metering
Tungsten WB
Savior for a day – Photo of the Day #63
February 21st, 2010 • photography
Tags: photo of the day, photography, project365
This is Bubba, a dog we rescued today on the north side of Boca Raton. Found him running around with his walking leash on and a collar with no tag. After about two hours we tracked down the owner’s apartment and left him a note to call us. No call yet 
. But if he doesn’t call soon, we’ve got good leads on where to take this adorable dog to get adopted and not put down!
Party it up – Photo of the Day #62
February 21st, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This was a random shot of a wedding party at The Dubliner in Mizner Park. I have no idea why they were *there* of all places, but they were and looked to be having some fun. I believe this is the bride and groom.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ f/2.2
ISO400 @ 1/8s
Matrix metering
Auto WB A3
Spaten Ice – Photo of the Day #61
February 19th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365
As a continuation of yesterday’s picture, I had the great idea of using my Spaten steins from Zanetoberfest. I had about 8 or 9 others before this that did not turn out just right then I figured I’d just take the diffuser off and strobe it straight into the back of the glasses. I thought it looked great in camera but the larger resolution just screamed to me. I really like this, with the light diffraction through the glass in the center to discolor to a light purple/mauve and then the diffusion across the floor.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ f/4
ISO200 @ 1/15s
Matrix Metering
Flash WB
Strobist info:
Nikon SB-600 @ 0deg iTTL BL, approximately 2 feet from glasses with slight bounce on the floor.
BONUS SHOT: Scooter jumping into frame, wanting some beer!.
The back-lit hookah – Photo of the Day #60
February 17th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365, strobist
This was shot for reddit’s /r/photoit subreddit: http://bit.ly/cJYZHb . The idea was to simply take a picture of something that would look different backlit and this was it. The hookah is my 36″ tall Khalil Mamoon that I received for Christmas two years ago. You can just barely make out the words near the top of the photo itself.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ f/5.6
ISO250 @ 1/15s
Flash WB
Strobist info:
Nikon SB-600 TTL w/Sto-fen white diffuser, bounced off kitchen door @ 60deg zoomed to 35mm
Calm before the storm – Photo of the Day #59
February 16th, 2010 • photography
Tags: night, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365
This was taken next to a canal by our house. It was my last shot of the night and I was happy to be standing up and no longer lying in the dead itchy grass with ants crawling on me, however I was weary of the canal since there have been past reports of alligators living in this one.
The lights are reflections of a street light about 50 feet away, with a slight breeze right before it started raining. This was a lucky shot for sure given the conditions.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/40s
Spot metering
Tungsten WB B2
