tilt-shift musa
January 15, 2010 | Filed Under family photos, practice shoots | 1 Comment
played around with my tilt-shift lens the morning i had to return it. i still have a lot to learn with this lens, but it sure is fun….
(this first shot is actually with the 35L, not the tilt-shift…)
now, the tilt-shift pictures…
i don’t normally include two versions of the same shot, but i couldn’t decide which one i liked better…
and this one is musa’s favorite picture:
more tilt-shift: great falls, VA
November 21, 2009 | Filed Under nature, photography | 5 Comments
promise this is the last tilt-shift-only post!
but, i had a couple of hours to kill before i needed to return the lens to the fantastic folks at penn camera, and it was a beautiful day, and my friend saliha who lives not far from the place wasn’t working and loves hiking too… so we met up around midday at one of my most favorite parks in the world, great falls, on the virginia side of the potomac. with musa along, of course. i took only the 45mm ts-e lens so i could focus on trying it out a little more; found it was less of a struggle the next day, although that might have been because i was taking pictures of trees and a river, instead of people who had to wait for me :) i believe i might have begun to fall in love with this lens… but i still want the canon 35L first! someday!
a note: when i first began taking pictures in high school, i didn’t even like photographing people… it was always the outdoors, in the beginning, trying to capture beautiful landscapes or skyscapes or natural details, and i even hated having people IN the nature shots. so although my preference has changed quite a bit, this kind of exercise was a little bit of a return to myself…
couple shoot: tilt-shift experiment I
November 19, 2009 | Filed Under friends, photography, portraits | 20 Comments
the setting was sweet: georgetown, late afternoon, an unseasonably warm and sunny november day with a startlingly blue sky echoed in the potomac. the equipment was exciting: i rented a tilt-shift lens (canon 45mm 2.8 ts-e), which (from what i understand) is intended to offer advantages in architectural photography related to perspective and depth of field, but also makes for fantastically dreamy kinds of portraits and i wanted to try my hand at this after seeing many photographers i admire use it regularly, even for weddings. and the couple? perfect! well… don’t take my word for it, please adore their cuteness yourself :)
warming up!
March 30, 2009 | Filed Under family photos, photography | 1 Comment
so i had some shots to blog of the snowy weather and never got around to it; now the weather is getting warmer! i’ve been practicing on my ever-present subject, of course; so, before my next wedding, i wanted to share some of the images i’ve been taking of my son and the weather… the “warm weather” playground and lake/geese shots are from centennial park in columbia, maryland – one of my favorite parks when i lived in columbia! and a great opportunity to work on composition and lighting… these shots are also edited using lightroom, which i finally have installed on my computer. the workflow is sooo much smoother now and i can’t wait to use this to process my next wedding… coming up this weekend!
anyway, this image below is the first time i’ve used a texture on an image of my son… just thought the mood of the picture merited it. i’m not big on textures, to be honest, but when they’re done well they’re amazing, so i do like to experiment…
