Saturday, July 10, 2010

Flowers

They are amazing things, aren't they? I'm pretty sure there isn't a color on earth that you can't find in a flower.

My friend Roni over at the My Life at 50mm blog does an AMAZING job with flowers and so at  a recent outing I tried my hand and shooting them. I'm no Roni, but it's also tough to flip a 70-200 lens backwards!

Shooting flowers really requires only a couple of things, at least as far as I can tell. First, a different perspective (standing over a flower and taking it's pictures is well...done already). The second is trying to capture what it is about the flower that makes it worth taking a picture of.

Is it a great blending of different colors?

Does it have a really cool shape that allows for some creativity just in shooting it?


Or, does it give you a chance to capture just the flower and isolate it from the rest of the world?



Just my thoughts.

Mitch

Sunday, July 4, 2010

It's been awhile

So it's been awhile since I posted anything on this blog. I have said over and over that I want to keep up with this, and I've failed every time! :)

So, now I'm going to try again.

I got a new lens that I got to test drive at Walt Disney World during a business trip to Orlando in June.

Here are a few pics with the new Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS II lens.





























It really is an awesome lens.

I am a huge fan of manipulating DOF and the ability to have a tack sharp lens that will give me really good results all the way back to f2.8 is invaluable.

My previous primary lens, a Canon 17-40 f4 is a great lens, but the extra stops down to 2.8 really do make a difference.

Disney in June is ghastly hot. I grew up not far from Disney World, but I  had forgotten how bad it was. It was still a great trip and a wonderful opportunity to test the new toy!

Happy Shooting