1/100 180mm f2.8 -2/3EV
I haven't blogged about a flower picture in awhile, so I'm due.
I got this shot not long after the leaf shot I posted a few days ago. There were several of these flowers along the path and i spent a good while taking shots from all different angles. This one I got while laying on the sidewalk shooting up toward the plant.
In Scott Kelby's first Digital Photography Book he makes a point of talking about how taking good flower pictures requires you to do more than just stand over a flower and take a picture. You have to crawl through grass and lay on the ground. Find different angles and figure out the best way to get the shot you're looking for. You have to see where the light is and how it's working off of the flower.
When it all comes together, though, it is absolutely worth every bit of effort.
What do you think?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Leaf on a Table
One of the cool things about traveling as much as I do is that I get to explore. Sometimes it's just exploring around the hotels where I stay.
This leaf was sitting on a stone chess table in the garden of the hotel where I stayed last week. It was a little after 6AM and the sun was just below the horizon and hidden behind the hotel itself. The dew was still very heavy over everything and that let me get the really cool water droplets on the leaf.
I'm sure that if anybody was watching I looked fairly silly crawling all over the ground and the table, but to me it's worth it.
Let me know what you think!
This leaf was sitting on a stone chess table in the garden of the hotel where I stayed last week. It was a little after 6AM and the sun was just below the horizon and hidden behind the hotel itself. The dew was still very heavy over everything and that let me get the really cool water droplets on the leaf.
I'm sure that if anybody was watching I looked fairly silly crawling all over the ground and the table, but to me it's worth it.
Let me know what you think!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Footprint on a Feather
1/3200 140mm f2.8 0EV
Every year during The Presentation Summit, http://www.betterppt.com/summit/, photographer +Rikk Flohr leads some of the attendees on a photography "field trip". Last year's summit was in San Diego and we spent the field trip walking along Mission Beach. This, for me was the first time I had a chance to really give my 70-200 f2.8 lens a workout and it is amazing how a different lens can change your perspective.
Prior to this I was shooting exclusively with a 17-40 wide angle. I saw the world like that, the big picture. Yeah, you can get in close with a 17-40 but I was a wide angle shooter! What I learned with the new lens is that the details, the small details, should not be overlooked.
I think this shot shows that. I don't know if the person walking down the beach saw this feather, but most likely not. They saw the big picture around them and completely missed the small details.
Food for thought, I suppose.
Every year during The Presentation Summit, http://www.betterppt.com/summit/, photographer +Rikk Flohr leads some of the attendees on a photography "field trip". Last year's summit was in San Diego and we spent the field trip walking along Mission Beach. This, for me was the first time I had a chance to really give my 70-200 f2.8 lens a workout and it is amazing how a different lens can change your perspective.
Prior to this I was shooting exclusively with a 17-40 wide angle. I saw the world like that, the big picture. Yeah, you can get in close with a 17-40 but I was a wide angle shooter! What I learned with the new lens is that the details, the small details, should not be overlooked.
I think this shot shows that. I don't know if the person walking down the beach saw this feather, but most likely not. They saw the big picture around them and completely missed the small details.
Food for thought, I suppose.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Castle with Mickey Icons
I've mentioned in previous posts that I'm not very good at shooting at night. That is mostly because I just don't do it very much. I'm trying to fix that.
This week I had the opportunity to travel to Disney for work and I took some time to take my tripod into the parks. One of my favorite places to shoot Cinderella's Castle is from the bridge just past the rose garden. I like the reflections that you can get in the water next to the castle.
This shot is from the "Magic, Memories and You" show just before the Wishes fireworks. I had never seen it before so I didn't know what to expect. I set the camera up on the tripod, attached the cable release, set the camera on Av and just clicked the shutter when I felt like the time was right. I managed to get a few shots that I really like and this one I think is really cool.
Mickey icons on Cinderella's Castle, for a Disney nut like me, it just doesn't get a whole lot better than that!
This week I had the opportunity to travel to Disney for work and I took some time to take my tripod into the parks. One of my favorite places to shoot Cinderella's Castle is from the bridge just past the rose garden. I like the reflections that you can get in the water next to the castle.
This shot is from the "Magic, Memories and You" show just before the Wishes fireworks. I had never seen it before so I didn't know what to expect. I set the camera up on the tripod, attached the cable release, set the camera on Av and just clicked the shutter when I felt like the time was right. I managed to get a few shots that I really like and this one I think is really cool.
Mickey icons on Cinderella's Castle, for a Disney nut like me, it just doesn't get a whole lot better than that!
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