Found this image on a recent morning. The leaves have been falling in abundance! I made this image using my partner’s Olympus E-Pl1 (shooting RAW). The noise was handled well by Nik Dfine!
Fallen Leaf
Category: Updates
All Hallow’s Eve
Can you tell that a couple of the members of the household are a wee bit obsessed with birds? Remarks on the 5D Mark III on loan from Canon Professional Services, as well as the recently announced Focus Tune from Michael Tapes Designs, intended to introduce a bit of automation to setting Autofocus Micro Adjustments with LensAlign to follow in the coming weeks.
Summer Surrounded
Summer on the Beach
The week before I helped Summer settle in for a month-long internship in Florida I borrowed a 50mm f/1.2L lens from Canon Professional Services. Over the time I had the lens in my possession, she commented numerous times that I was using my camera more since I’d gotten that lens than in the entire time she’s known me. While I thought it might break the budget, I am now considering acquiring one for myself before the Canon rebates expire at the end of the month of June. While you can read plenty of reviews online that pan the lens for a myriad of issues (many of which can be resolved with focus calibration) the reality is that this lens makes really beautiful images. Bokeh is soft and creamy…it just has a special “look” that it’s f/1.4 brother simply doesn’t share. And is it worth the cost? I don’t know if it’s worth it to anyone else, but if it keeps me in the game–makes me want to pick up my camera and make more images–then it’s worth it to me. It’s worth it to us.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding
Sometimes the people you photograph bring their own energy to a project and you find that in post you have to make those images adapt. In this case, the natural color of the image took away from the expressions, but I found this slightly bleached effect to make the light moment between Anna and Ben stand out all the more. More to come.
Field of Gold or Victoria Crowned Crane?
Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina is an impressive facility situated near Rocky Mount, about an hour and a half from Raleigh. All the birds are captive and so their behavior is relatively tame (or exceedingly so with some birds) but the opportunities for photography can be hit or miss. It’s certainly a place I would like to revisit, especially to learn more about their breeding program, but photographically it would be best on a cloudy day: the regular hours are 9 to 5, so early morning light isn’t an option, and the “golden hour” in the evening comes long after the park closes!
Watching my step
One good thing about being slightly less than sure-footed is that I frequently look down at where I’m walking, and see things that I might otherwise miss. As much as I love breathtaking, expansive landscapes, sometimes it’s the small and quiet moments that really affect me the most–particularly on a journey of self-discovery and renewal.
How does anything dry in this weather?
20th Annual NCSU Dog Olympics
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 close to 1,000 people turned out on the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine campus in Raleigh, NC to enjoy their annual Dog Olympics. Five days later, after much editing and toning, I am happy to link to my NCSU Dog Olympics gallery at lightsedgeprints.com.
German Johnson
