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An enormous leek from the farmers market
Mar 112012
Feb 292012
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My final daily photo for Year 4 at a Santa Monica beach
Technical Stuff
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR at 18mm
Exposure settings: ISO 200, f/9, 1/40s
Cropped dimensions: 3387 x 2267 pixels
Other stuff: ND grad filter, -2/3 EV Continue reading »
Jan 232012
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Daily photo for 1/22/12 - Venice Pier at Dusk
Tech Info
Tripod, Nikon D80, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 at 18mm, ND grad filter, f/22, ISO 100, 6 second exposure
Things That Made it Happen
Timing - Although I arrived before sunset, I waited for a while afterwards to get these colors. The sun set at 5:15; this shot was taken about 5:30. Continue reading »
Nov 042011
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Daily photo for 11/4/11 - Pleasure Pier
Inspiration
It rained today, and post-storm photos tend to be quite lovely. For me, the logical thing to do was head down to the beach near the Santa Monica Pier around sunset. I’ve done that many times before, but I can’t say that it ever gets old. Continue reading »
May 222011
This is my first blog post setup photo, meaning that I’m writing a bit more than I usually would on my previous setup photos. Questions? Leave a comment!
Before & After
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The Setup
The key to the lighting in this photo is the off-camera softbox. I used an SB800 with a Lumiquest LTp. I fired it using my D80′s on-camera flash in commander mode, and I used large white foam board to reflect some of the light back – that’s what you see on the bottom of the peas. I set my on-camera flash to 1/128 power to fill in the shadows a little, but I’m not sure it had much of an effect. The SB800 was on 1/8 power. I used an aperture of f/11 and shot straight on to get all of the subject in focus. Continue reading »