All of the tips and tricks of photography I’ve learnt that are fit to print!
Today I did my first real wedding photo shoot at the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens...the same place I had scouted a week ago with my sister Meghann. The wedding was for her boss Robyne at the Gilbert Theatre and it was a wonderful ceremony to experience. Mind you, I was nervous as it was my first wedding shoot and I can assure you I invoking Alan Shepard's prayer more than a few times down I-40…
October's special treat comes from the world of astronomy with the planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars in a lovely conjunction (Mars is pretty hard to see compared to the other two but the iPhone 6 Plus still did a pretty decent job of getting it). Of course, the D7000 or D810 with the 50mm f/1.4 or the 70-200mm f/2.8 probably would have done better but then I DID have a kid I had to collect…
This is the other roll of slide film I shot at Ocean Isle Beach using Provia 100. You can see that it is much less saturated with color and as a faster speed film is much better in retaining contrast details even when shooting in the evening. Provia 100 is my go-to general purpose slide film and it was what I was using when I was wandering round the mountains in the spring. In darker…
The slides I shot at Ocean Isle Beach came back from AgX Imaging in Sault Saint Marie in Michigan and I couldn't be happier with them! As long as Mike keeps processing E6 slide film, I'll keep sending my rolls of film to him because you can see that the processed frames are very nicely done even with me really pushing the limits of the film shooting until it was almost dark. The really cool…
The camera so loves the colours of fall and they were particularly vibrant whilst waiting for Nicholas to finish his school day! The trees having a nice diagonal alignment certainly didn't hurt... :)
After all of the hustle and bustle of unpacking for a couple of weeks of holiday at the beach house we've hired, it's time to take advantage of a "super moon" where the moon is at its closest point in its orbit to Earth. The moon was quite large in the sky thanks to atmospheric lensing so I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to play around with it a bit. The shots that…
