16 posts tagged “photographer”
A few of us drove up to Tahoe for some good times and long exposures. The first shot works out to be about 1.5 hours of exposure with the 10.5mm. The second photo is a stitched panorama composed of 4 photos taken at ISO 3200 @f/3.2 with my new Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8.
Sorry for the rant...
In my last post I mentioned that I had lost a 2GB memory card full of photos from our camping trip at the Black Rock desert. I tore apart EVERYTHING looking for it and nothing. I spent almost an entire day cleaning my car, double and triple checking my camera bags, unpacking all my camping equipment and making phone calls to the places we stopped on the trip.
A couple days ago, after I had finally accepted that my photos were lost forever, I received a call from someone saying they found my card! The card must have fallen out of the car when we made a brief stop 100 miles away from home.
Moral of the story: label your memory cards with your contact info and make backups on the spot if possible!
Although I'm way behind in my editing, here's a couple from that card...
A couple from last week.
Here are some watches I recently shot for a client who sells on ebay. He specifically asked for photos that were realistic looking but professional *whatever that means*. I used my two studio heads with large softboxes and combined with my sb800 to shoot most of these.
The Navitimer is worth something like $4000. The other two watches were worth around a grand each.
Here are a couple of long exposure shots with the new cam. Noise performance is really great compared to my old D200. The last two photos were taken WITHOUT long exposure noise reduction.
Verdi bridge (look closely for the train), 12 mins, f/8 @ ISO 200 with the fisheye, daylight WB.
Robb Drive Overpass: 6mins, f/8 @ ISO200, noise reduction off, 12-24mm
Last night I made the tough realization that I need to sell off ALL of my 4x5 stuff :( I just haven't been doing any large format stuff lately and being a starving 24 year old that basically eats crap for camera equipment, I've decided to cut down my kit. Plus the cost for 4x5 e6 development is like $2-$3 a shot!
And since I converted my darkroom into a digital printing/matting room/office, I figured I'd ditch film all together.
In preparation for the online auctions I'll be putting together, I did some nice product shots of the equipment. Below is my 180mm APO Rodenstock lens.
Basically, I've got two strobes through softboxes on either side of the lens, which is sitting on a clear piece of glass I borrowed from a frame. The glass is on top of black velvet. To give a really nice clean specular, I placed some foamcore behind the lens and shot a speedlight into it.
I will soon post a complete list of all the stuff I'm going to sell including some Nikon lenses (not large format), for now, heres a quick list of stuff, PM me if you are interested and I'll set up an eBay auction for you.:
- Shenhao HZX 4x5-IIa 4x5 field camera w/Satin Snow GG
- Rodenstock Grandagon-N 75mm MC f/6.8 #109xxxxx
- Sinar Schneider Super-Angulon 90mm MC f/8 #137xxxxx
- Rodenstock APO Sironar-N 180mm f/5.6 #111xxxxx
- Schneider SYmmar-S 240mm f/5.6 #139xxxxx
- Schneider Componon-S 150mm f/5.6 enlarger lens
Comments welcome, more from this series to come...
Yesterday I requested the day off to go to the Mum concert in San Francisco. Well, everyone that was going canceled, so instead I photographed around with Kris. This was one of my favorites.
Here is the first of many shots I plan to post from the Arizona strobist meetup. Fielding and I drove over 700 miles, slept a total of about 8 hours in almost 3 days and took hundreds of photos with almost 30 other photographers and 7 models at the event. It was a blast and good use of my vacation time.
This was a shoot right at sunrise in the graveyard with Brianna. Comments always welcome :)
Strobist info:
Quantum Q flash positioned to camera left shooting through a 43" umbrella. The rising sun was behind the model to camera right. Nikon d200, 80-200 f/2.8
Model: Brianna
