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London Shots

Posted by Steve on July 17, 2012 No comments

As promised, here are a few of the good shots as I go through and process them.

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This panorama was shot from up on Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath. We stopped off at the Southampton Arms pub and had a few GREAT pints of cider. Somehow we thought it would be a good idea to stagger through the park and hike all the way up to the top of the hill. I am really glad we did since I was able to take this shot. I used Photoshop CS5 to stitch the panorama together.

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Here is your standard picture of the Clock Tower. Apparently, Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the tower. We stopped along the bridge and I snapped this one pretty quick. I was happy with how it came out.

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On the Thursday we were there, the building known as The Shard was having its opening ceremonies. Part of that was shooting off lasers across the city! I didn’t have much time to get to a closer location and thought that, through the London Eye would be a good shot. I set up for about an hour and got both of these shots. One is the lasers going off and the other is a Long Exposure of the Eye as it spun. The laser show started at 10:15pm and the Eye stops moving at 10:00pm

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Lastly (for now) is the London Underground. On the last day I realized I didn’t have any good shots of the Tube. I loved the blur on the train for this one, but had to do some cleaning up of some other parts of the shot. Lets just say someone gave a crack at photobombing.

I will try and have some more shots up soon.

Long Exposure lessons from the fail book.

Posted by Steve on January 26, 2012 1 comment

Last night I decided to try out a neat technique using long exposure and strobe highlights. in a good environment, this can be used to highlight areas and paint light into dark spots. Unfortunately, if you don’t have the right subject, it just doesn’t come out right.

The plan was to set up the camera on a tripod, up on the deck of my back yard, overlooking the trees in the yard. I set up a shot for F-16, ISO200, and decided on around 2-3min exposure. Then I took my SB-600 out into the yard and flashed various parts of the yard and the trees to highlight them.

(Important side note, wear shoes you don’t care about if you own a dog that typically uses the back yard as his restroom)

The end result was not what I was expecting at all, and not in a good way. The final picture looked like a picture of my back yard with spotlights on the trees:

The sky was very overcast, the angle was wrong, the subject of the trees just wasn’t that interesting. The only thing this shot had going for it was the concept. I understand the concept better now, it’s just a matter of finding the right subject. I’ll certainly revisit this idea again in the future after a scouting trip to find a good shot.

Interestingly enough, one of the shots you can just make out a ghostly figure of myself in the distance.

Another Carnival ride at Dusk

Posted by Steve on April 17, 2011 No comments

Another Carnival ride at Dusk

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Spinning Ride at Dusk. Long exposure and some HDR processing.

Posted by Steve on April 17, 2011 No comments

Spinning Ride at Dusk. Long exposure and some HDR processing.

Playing pool with long exposure

Posted by Steve on October 17, 2010 No comments

Went to play pool for brunch like we do every Sunday and took the chance to re-take a picture I tried last weekend. Only with much better results since I have a better grasp on what I am doing with the settings. (Click for big)