Long Jacket

Here's my niece wearing my new jacket. At the moment I think she's worn it longer than I have!

Another Self Portrait

Me again. Just getting ready for Halloween. ;-)

Thinking of a Green Blob

Doing a little off camera lighting with one of my best models.

Bridge

Took this photo in NH on a hike to a waterfall.

Lit Pumpkin

I placed a speedlight behind this pumpkin to light up some fallen leaves. There's another flash higher up on the porch, but I don't think it contributed much, if any light to this part of the (cropped) photo. I lit the pumpkin itself with a flashlight. It had been sprinking for a while, but just before I took this photo it started raining harder. You can see rain drops lit by the flash.

Me Again

Here's me again, trying out the new flash. Here, it's direct, on camera. I believe this lighting setup is considered broad light, since my face is turned slightly off to the side (not quite 3/4) and the brighter light is on the side facing the camera, or the "broad" side. I've heard short lighting is generally better, but of course it depends on the subject. I did one with short lighting, but the pose wasn't as good.

Flash Zoom

Here's me, playing with the new flash. As hotshoe mounted flashes go, it's arguably the best around.. for now. I didn't think there'd be much difference between this fancy one, and a lesser 3rd party one I've owned for a while.
There's a big difference.

In this photo I zoomed the flash head in all the way and shot with a wide lens. It gives it a kind of rectangle flashlight/vignette effect.

We're gona have to use harpoons and tow cables...

Here's some kinda super lifting/moving device. It's at, or very close to a dock in the Cranston area of Rhode Island. Laura thought it looked like an Imperial Walker, or AT-AT for the Lucasfilm geeks. I took this photo while on the East Bay Bike Path. I'd recommend it if you're a cyclist in the area.

Kitchen Skew

Used the magic arm for this one. I created a (boring) late night sequence of images. This one happens not to have anyone in it.

Tilt!

I haven't been posting as often as I'd like lately. Over the past few days though at least, I've been shooting more. Here's one I took a few days ago; nothing fancy, just playing with a tilt-shift or PCS lens. They're kinda cool, but I find myself not using it very much. It allows one to control the depth of field in interesting ways. It can do other things too.

Marthas Vineyard

Went to the Marthas Vineyard on Sat and look lots of cool photos. In this one I'm using the sun as a rim light. I brought my flash, but the batteries only lasted a couple shots. I gotta keep that thing charged! In this one, the flash was supposed to fire, but it didn't. I kinda like it though. Fun Fact: the term silhouette was named after a guy. Etienne, I believe, was his first name. He was minister of finance during the French Revolution. His favorite hobby was making shadow pictures, where one traces the outline of someone's shadow onto black paper and cuts it out. Due to his harsh taxation policies, the (now starving) people started dressing all in black, saying they were but shadows, a la Silhouette! Look it up!

See my flickr feed for more MV photos! I even geotagged them!