tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174152920737967712024-03-05T05:32:22.878-08:00Master Photography Blog (Learn, Create, Motivate!)-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-84344595689768162017-08-31T14:06:00.001-07:002017-08-31T14:06:15.722-07:00Resilient Hearts the Movie needs donations!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jz6_yxiMVvg" width="459"></iframe>-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-583640816196859772017-06-11T16:47:00.004-07:002017-06-11T16:47:49.906-07:00#24 I'm a Director of an Indy Movie! Resilient Hearts!I'm the Director/Producer/Web Guru for the movie Resilient Hearts!<br />
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My wife Bonnie Freeman who is a Nurse Practitioner wrote a book about her experiences while working with a Palliative Care Team. It's funny, sad, awesome! Everyone who has read the book loves it. Getting people to read isn't always easy. So she decided to write a screenplay! After some interest then silence from some colleges and hospitals, we have decided to move ahead full blast! And again we are getting some hospitals that want to help us make this movie! Anyway, we are making it now for sure.<br />
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To see how far we have come (we are shooting in August!) go to:<br />
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Yes, I'll add some behind the scenes images and videos!<br />
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---Allen-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-25109183350404769342017-03-29T16:44:00.001-07:002017-03-29T16:46:09.868-07:00#23 The ICE and WATER Shoot.......<br />
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My workshop/shooters group <a href="http://www.sideshowphotowerks.com/" target="_blank">SIDESHOW PHOTOWERKS</a> (Which is apart of the meetup group <a href="http://tinyurl.com/northcountymeetup" target="_blank">North County Photographers & Models meetup group</a>) had a fantastic shoot at Wonderland Studios March 18th, 2017!</div>
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From my website and Facebook area: </div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001487505748&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/moi.artistiklegacy" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;">Moe Artistik</a><span style="font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;"> had Tricia and Stacey for MU/</span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1364602890&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/steffeney.b.harris" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;">Steffeney Bonilla Harris</a><span style="font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;"> had Tori and Lauren for MU//</span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100007990722015&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.borquez.9" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;">Vanessa Borquez</a><span style="font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; text-align: left;"> had Bryana and Symantha for MU//Corinne Renee did all dry ice models Hair! </span></span></span><br />
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Mumbles the cat at Wonderland!</div>
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The setup for the water area!</div>
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One of the great hair designs for the ICE setup!</div>
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Co-Organizer Kathleen Shumate who runs the NCPMG!</div>
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Dry ice!</div>
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Here is a little treat.....a before and after of my post work on this shot. There was dry ice around her but I liked this shot before the effect was rolling....so worked on it in Photoshop: </div>
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Posting #22 The New Studio Location......</div>
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This is s shot of Kaitlyn Rose Hawkins. She found me on Model Mayhem. I usually try and set up shoots with models on MM and they almost always back out for one reason or another. But Kaitlyn who lives about one hour away did show up and we had a nice shoot in my new condo studio setup. We shot with my Alien Bee strobes with beauty dish and strip light with grid. Then we went outside as it was a beautiful day in Rancho Cucamonga. There is a gazebo and some roses growing in a garden right near my door! The best roses were smaller yellow ones along this black rail fencing.<br />
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Then we shot back inside with the pink diner seat but other than the one shot at the start of this blog we are holding onto the shots for possible magazine publication. I shot outside with a new Godox TT685s speed-light that shoots high-speed-sync (HSS). This allowed me to shoot wide open aperture on my Sony A7R2 with the Sony Zeiss 55 1.8 and 35 2.8. That was how I was getting the nice blurry backgrounds (bokeh). I have on order Two Flashpoint Evolve 200 model strobes that are a little larger than a regular flash but have 3 times the power! (They will be here on Friday March31st!) I already have two brackets and will configure some of my soft-boxes to a Bowens S type so I can diffuse the new Evolve strobes. </div>
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I also just got a foldable 24" beauty dish soft-box with this S type mount! (Shown here with a similar size regular speed-light in the bracket) The second shot has the white diffuser over the front, you can see it attached on the sides. A snug fit, no velcro. I'm curious if there is a grid I can buy for this also, probably. It's an Impact brand diffuser.</div>
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They also can shoot HSS so I can soon shoot indoors and out with the wide open apertures! And I can shoot up to 1/8000th of a second with these flashes so watch out for some water splashing, flying flour, popping balloons etc....!</div>
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Also on order that should ship out tomorrow from B and H Photo: Sony 85mm 1.8 lens. Eager to try that puppy out!</div>
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Tomorrow Sienna Schmolesky will be here all day helping me move a ton of stuff out of what will become the costume room! I'll try and remember to get some shots of the progress.</div>
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My new YouTube learning photography channel is in the works! It will be called "ARTOGRAPHY by Allen Freeman" ....coming soon!</div>
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I've been thinking of doing this for a year or so...but I can set up everything the way I want at last. I'll have more room to work everything out. I'll stick to reviewing electronics that I've actually used so I can give everyone a first hand look at the equipment. Since I just switched to Sony (Mid 2016), I'll be able to go over some of Sony's cameras and lenses. I am still shooting with the Nikon P900 superzoom for fun, but getting some amazing results!<br />
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I'll go over how to set up a photo shoot and what to expect and how to set up lights, camera settings, and the lighting gear I use.<br />
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Here is my current camera set up:<br />
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This is the Sony A7R2 with the 24-240 3.5-6.3 Sony OSS Lens.</div>
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I now go to model shoots with 2 A7R2's one with a Sony Zeiss 35mm 2.8, and the other with a Sony Zeiss 55mm 1.8. That way I can shoot wide and get some background in the shots or go more normal tele with the 55. The 55 has some awesome bokeh at the wide open settings. I think it's as good as the much more expensive 85mm lenses. Plus you can use the lens for a bit more if you can back up.</div>
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Also recently this year 2017, shot up in the mountains about one hour north of Ontario, CA. Near Lake Arrowhead and Bluejay......a snow queen and viking shoot! Using my 2 camera set up outside for the first time.....</div>
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Large beauty dish. Fox added in Photoshop.</div>
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I had two lights. One was a large stand Paul C Buff Alien Bee Strobe with a beauty dish with a sock over the front to diffuse it. The other was a small stand with a speedlight and a foldable mini beauty dish. Sometimes I just used one or the other, sometimes if I had room, I used both. The small speedlight I used as a backlight or side light. </div>
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More about my move, and the new location in Rancho Cucamonga, CA soon!</div>
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I recently got a Manual Focus 85mm F/2 Nikkor for cheap on eBay. I've seen where some sellers will have a ---Make An Offer--- option.....but in the past every time I tried making a lower offer they always declined it. This time it was Adorama company using eBay to sell this lens. I offered them $40 less and they took it! They were asking $160 originally. I'd been watching the 85mm F/2 lens on eBay for a while and they usually go for $200 at least. I did see one sell for $175 but was hoping to get one for less. Patience usually pays off on eBay. The lens is in great shape and works like a charm on the Fotodiox adapter. With the Fotasy adapter the lenses will go on but with some the aperture ring either won't turn or it will with lots of force....so far with the Fotodiox the aperture rings work normally. The Fotasy was $16, the Fotodiox (from their web site) was $80.<br />
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Here is a shot I took with the Fotasy adapter and the 85mm Nikkor F/2 (This was a few days before I got the Fotodiox):<br />
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I got to use my Sony A7Rii with the Sony 24-240 lens again in action at the San Diego County Fair for the second time this season. It was the last day of the Fair, July 4th. We thought the traffic would be horrible on the nearly 2 hour drive so we left really early and arrived about 30min before the place even opened. Fortunately we had some free vender passes so could go right in. (Pays to know people, such as my pal Dean LeCrone who was entertaining the place every day of the Fair I think...as his steampunk character: Dr. Peepers!</div>
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I really can't be happier with the quality of the shots with this camera/lens combo! Sony A7Rii/Sony 24-240. I really do need to get a small flash to put on when needed. I do have lots of flashes I can try out in manual mode but it's always best to have at least one that is TTL for it to sync with the camera and give you the correct exposure with the flash. I only use on camera flash at events like this or weddings where you have times such as the reception where you are moving around a lot and need light. For 95% of the time I don't need the flash at events. At this one the camera was doing a great job. Even when the subject was partially shaded from the harsh sun the shot was great later when I brought it up on my monitor. Amazing. Here is a shot that was like that. Half of his face was shaded and I thought it would never turn out right. But it did. And no, I didn't save it in photoshop.<br />
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I keep waiting for all the problems with the A7Rii that I have been reading about but knock on wood I haven't. In fact 2 things they complained about were: No uncompressed RAW ability. And the overheating when shooting video at 4K after more than 10min etc....well.....Sony fixed both of those issues in their firmware update of 3.0. My camera came with 3.0 already on it since I've only had it a few weeks. I've not switched from lossy compressed RAW to uncompress RAW as it will make the already huge files way larger. I'm very happy with the files as they are! I've not texted out the 4K overheating issue as I've only used it for short clips so far. </div>
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One last thing....Yesterday was the last day for my Inland Empire Models & Photographers MEETUP group. The Meetup company are closing their model shoot groups. They made up a more strict policy about shooting models that seems to now include every type of model shoot you can think of. So they gave me a week to get my notices out. And I did message all 1200 members that it was closing. And I messaged them again about how I'm moving the group to <a href="http://www.sideshowphotowerks.com/">www.sideshowphotowerks.com</a> and on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sideshowphotowerks">www.facebook.com/sideshowphotowerks</a></div>
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We already have two shoots lined up! One July 30th and one August 6th! If you are in the SoCal area join up (It's free to join!) The two shoots above are Oceanside Beach and Rialto, CA. We cover pretty much all areas from Rancho Cucamonga to San Diego! And some of Orange County!</div>
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I have the AF/MF button set to go to Eye Detection. Some photographers like to have that button to override the shutter button from setting focus. I tried it. I took off that ability from the shutter button. It would just fire the shot, no half press to focus. Then I set the AF/MF button to focus the shot. It works in the studio, but when I'm in the car trying to grab fast shots...it's too much trouble to focus with that separate button. You see I'm trying to shoot with one hand most of the time while driving (I know, not recommended!) So I switched it back to the usual half press of the shutter button to set the focus, then full press for taking the shot. Too many years to re-train myself I guess. But I did give it a try. You see in theory it makes sense. If you use two hands. One holds the camera and then you push the AF/MF to grab focus. Then shutter button to shoot. You see if the object or model is not moving much, then you just keep hitting the trigger and not worrying about the focus. That is the reason they set it up that way. With the Nikon system and the lenses I used I could turn off AF on the lens, and shoot action etc...after I'd focused. Now since some lenses don't give you that button, you have to lock focus with the AF/MF button if you don't set it up the way they like to do it. </div>
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<b>Set your Live Display ---Setting Effect OFF</b> (Before I did this the camera was trying to show me the scene in the viewfinder or LCD as very dark...since I had my setting for the strobes! Turning this to OFF fixed the problem and I can see the scene as I would see it with an optical viewfinder, not as it would be with all my camera settings. Now I have to set it back to ON when shooting without strobes if I want to see the image reacting to the exposure settings I'm changing. Which is a good thing to have that my Nikon systems never had. </div>
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Click on these images to see a larger view. (In this case a much larger view as I uploaded them full size JPG files.) The one strobe was an Alien Bee 800 set about 5 feet off the ground and aiming down hitting the items from camera left. It has a barn door flap head and can take color gels. For these shots in studio I just had a white diffuser gel on it.</div>
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Anyway here are some lenses I tested the bokeh out by placing a head figure with some area behind it to see how the lenses handle the background. They all seem to have a different look. The really long telephoto, such as 105, 135, 200, and 300 really blur out the background the most. You have to also step back about 5-10feet from the subject to get them in focus. So these are best used outdoors or in larger area studios.<br />
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Check out these test shots all on the Sony A7RM2 with a Fotasy N/G-A7II, Nikon F mount to Sony E mount, manual focus only. (On eBay for $16).<br />
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By the way, from what I've seen on YouTube tests show the best 85mm lenses for the Sony full frame cameras are the Zeiss Batis 85mm 1.8 and the Sony G Master 85mm 1.4. (Consensus shows the Sony G Master inching out the Zeiss just barely in the nicer rounded, creamy bokeh areas).-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-48847724452215601682016-06-01T17:02:00.000-07:002016-06-04T14:57:38.286-07:0017- Old Nikon Glass on Sony A7RM2So far I only have a $16 Fotasy NG-A7II adapter for Nikon F mount to Sony E mount. But the good news is that is really works! Sure its working in manual focus but since the Sony A7RM2 has focus peaking, a feature that shows you what in the shot is in focus with color outline areas.......it's easy!<br />
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In camera 5 axis stabilization. 42 megapixels (my cameras are 16mp). Small camera. Lighter. Face detection focus and even more important....eye detection focus! And it has the possibility of taking my Nikon lenses.<br />
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There are lots of other features as well as Focus Peaking, and a zooming in feature with autofocus lenses when manual focusing.<br />
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Ok, but why the 24-240 3.5-6.3 lens? Well, I have Nikon lenses already that can handle just about anything but one lens I used to have that I'd sold years back was the 28-300. This was the perfect lens for travel as it turned out. So by getting that Sony lens I have one lens right away to do most everything I need. Ok, not the best for low light shots but.....I also got a cheap ($16) Fotasey NG-A7II lens adapter. I can attach any of my Nikon lenses to the Sony camera now. I can only use them in manual focus but a lot of my lenses are manual focus. And once I get this all up and running which I may of already done in just one day (first day I got the camera I figured out how to use it with my studio lights etc...it was a little tricky) I'm going to get the Commlite adapter. This is a $399 adapter for all my Nikon lenses even the autofocus feature will work on the AF lenses! Can't wait to check that out. </div>
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Going through all my camera stuff and trying out lenses now on the Sony last night I used a 50mm 1.8 AF lens on it. My adapter worked but of course it's manual focus but the camera was ready for me. It has Focus Peaking! This is where an area that is in focus has a color (you pick white/red/yellow etc..) area online showing you where your focus is! This really made it fun! Here are shots from last night (first day of using the camera) of my wife Bonnie making some cookies....</div>
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Nikon 50 1.8 AF lens with adaptor. Shot at 1.8, ISO: 400, 1/60th.<br />
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And today as I was getting my older lenses out to try them on the Sony I decided to make a shot of all my current and old Nikon equipment. (This shot is missing a 50 1.4 ancient Nikkor lens and a Nikkormat film camera with another 50mm 1.4 lens). But you get the idea.<br />
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Stay tuned as I'll be posting shots taken with some of these lenses on the Sony camera, and the 24-240 Sony lens (which took this group shot) in upcoming posts. Will I keep my Nikon cameras (probably), will I get more native Sony lenses? Time will tell.</div>
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Lenses and adapters and more. These are some of the items I've been getting on eBay for dirt cheap lately. From left to right: TC-200 2X Teleconverter, Nikkor 50 1.4 AI, Nikkor 35-105 3.5-4.5 AIS, Nikkor 200mm F/4 AIS, Zykkor 35-135 3.5, AF 50 2.8, 3 part micro focus rings.</div>
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-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-12525619303421995822014-09-30T21:14:00.002-07:002014-12-05T11:53:05.767-08:00#14 The Model Archives #1 and #2........<div data-bindattr-72="72" style="text-align: left; width: 450px;">
I'm in the process of putting all of my finished images from all of my model shoots into book form. Model Archives #1 covered 6 photo shoots, and Model Archives #2 will take it up to the 14th model shoot.<br />
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Eventually I'll have a number of these 100 page books to cover all of the finished images I've made from hundreds of model shoots. Wish me luck in being able to complete this massive project! Starts with December 18th, 2010.......<br />
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A recap of some lenses, bellows, extension tubes and more I've been buying cheap on eBay lately and experimenting with.</div>
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The shot above from left to right: Nikon Slide Duplicating adapter, Nikkor 50mm Auto-S 1.4, Nikon Micro Bellows. The Slide Duplicating device cost $60 so I thought I'd give it a try. Turns out after I got it I read the paperwork and discover you have to have either a 55mm Micro lens or the 60mm AF Micro lens......I used to own the 60mm and sold it to a friend so I borrowed it back and was able to duplicate some old slides with this set up. Oh, turned out you also needed the Nikon bellows attachment also! Well, a while back to get the 50mm Auto-S 1.4 lens on eBay part of the auction included a Nikkormat film camera, the lens, plus the bellows! It was all around $80. Funny thing was I was bidding on the lens alone in another auction and lost it when it got up to $100 and I wasn't going to pay that much. Then I end up getting the lens and the camera with the bellows for even less. Slides: </div>
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The slides actually appeared a little bit sharper than what I was ending up with in the camera. I'm going to experiment with the 35-105 micro and see if I can rig up something better. </div>
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A similar setup shown below is the Df with the bellows attached to the Nikkor 35-105 with it set to micro mode: </div>
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Here is a shot I made of my cheap lens collection (minus the 50mm Auto-S 1.4 which I showed in the shot above). Left to right: TC-200 2X Teleconverter, Nikkor 50mm 1.4, Nikkor 35-105 3.5-4.5 micro, Nikkor 200mm F4, Zykkor 35-135 3.5, Nikkor AF 50mm 1.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">8, and 3 Micro Extension Rings. </span></div>
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Shot above was with a Nikkor AF 60mm Micro 2.8 lens (that I used to own but have been borrowing.) One Alien Bee 800 strobe with beauty dish--covered with a diffuser camera left.</div>
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I've not experimented much with the 2X converter yet ($80 eBay). I was aiming to go shoot the horses and jockeys at Santa Anita recently but since I've had a bad cold for a week now I've missed 3 photoshoots I was planned to do. The next one from the left, 50mm 1.4 I bought years ago for about $50 on eBay and only in the last month have been experimenting with it. I love the bokeh this lens produces. Since it's a manual focus lens it's been a real challenge to get eyes in focus. The Df isn't helping in this regard with the focus screen not a split screen etc...I will experiment with the Live View since I've read you can zoom way in with it and check focus. I love the retro look I get especially shooting ambient light subjects. Here are a few: </div>
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The next lens 3rd from the left is the Nikkor 35-105 3.5-4.5 ($100 eBay). It also has a micro setting. I took this out on a informal shoot to see some Christmas lights in Riverside where lots of people were around ice skating and checking out the lights. Here are a few shots with this lens: </div>
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I was pleasantly surprised at how well this lens worked. It's a push pull zoom. Maybe not the best low light lens at only 3.5 but the Df camera made up for it with it's great low light capabilities. Again, shooting with manual focus is a challenge especially with moving skaters, and in low light situations. I tend to focus, shoot, refocus, etc...to at least get one that is in focus before I move on to another scene. </div>
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Next in the middle of the shot of lenses is the Nikkor 200mm F4 (I think it was $80 on eBay) which I have not tried out very much yet. I've heard good things about this lens so I'm pretty sure it'll be great once I get a chance to try it out. Wanted to try it with the TC-200 2X converter to make it a 400mm focal length!</div>
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Next is the Zykkor 35-135mm F3.5 Micro ($20 eBay). I've only taken a few shots with this one and they seem very uncontrasty, and not ver sharp. I'll keep experimenting with different f-stops and see it it's better stopped down. </div>
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Next is the brilliant, small, lightweight AF 50mm 1.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">8. ($60 eBay). This little lens is a marvel! I've only used it a few days but I'm super impressed! Easy and fast to focus of course as it's AF! Here are a few shots: </span></div>
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Last of the lenses and stuff on the far right is the extension tubes ($6 eBay). With all three of these screwed on at the same time with my 50 1.4 lens it can shoot super micro! Here's one: </div>
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To get more of a depth of field I shoot with at f8 or f11....the shot of the penny was probably more of a wide open 2.8ish setting. That only gives a small sliver of focus.<br />
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More experimenting and buying cheap lenses on eBay and elsewhere.....ahead......-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-76890728944609068042013-12-28T14:59:00.001-08:002013-12-28T16:31:01.509-08:00#11 More Lens Tests + Learning From YouTube.Here are a few shots I took as a test of an old Nikon 35mm-105mm 3.5-4.5 lens that I got from eBay.<br />
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I really like this lens as it is so small and light. Seems to be very sharp at all settings. The last shot of the apartments with palm trees you'll notice the foreground is sharpest. I would of had to have a smaller aperture setting (f8, f11 or f16) to of gotten the whole view in focus better. The mountain shot I was zoomed to 105mm and had the focus to infinity. The top shot is where I set the lens to it's Micro setting and I added a TC-200 2X Nikon teleconverter. This lens works great but you have to back up as close focusing up close is about 2 feet away. With the 2X converter you are still about that far back but now you can fill in the frame of the object you want. Without the converter that lens was just a part of the scene and not filling up the frame. I'm going to do more experiments outdoors with the Micro setting, with the 2X converter and see what I can get.</div>
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While working on photos I have my iPad nearby and I've been watching (mostly listening to) a series on photography called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2hkHEU0d7s">FILM</a>. There are three photographers (one girl is mostly a stylist/MUA) and they really seem to know their stuff. The girl with the dark hair is very good at working with couples and the guy is very good at one-on-one shooting with a model. They all have their strengths and work well together. I've seen 8 episodes and can't wait to see all of the rest. Sure, they shoot film and I stopped shooting film back around 1998 or so, but I love learning how they work!</div>
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<br />-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-67846702173764297912013-12-27T20:49:00.003-08:002013-12-28T16:27:41.348-08:00#10 New toys that are old…...Since I got the Nikon Df, I've been playing a lot more with old lenses, teleconverters, bellows and slide duplicating attachments.<br />
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I have an old Nikon 50mm 1.4 that is all manual settings. It's not the AIS, etc..it's just the standard 1.4. The Df has a small lever you can pull back out of the way when shooting manual lenses. I'm still researching all this but I've been doing my usual shoots with the D4 and state of the art 70-200 and 24-70 2.8 lenses, then before the shoot is over I use the modeling lights from the strobes and shoot ambient with the Df and my 50mm 1.4. The focus took some experimenting. It's manual and that takes a while to get use to since I'd not used one for over 20 years! I went all digital back in 1998 or 1999 and then when I got my first DSLR it was around 2005 or so. All the lenses were Auto Focus….<br />
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I love the short Depth-Of-Field with this 50mm, and the soft golden light. I shoot a bit more shots to make sure I have the focus just right as it's very critical! I'll focus, shoot, focus, shoot….to make sure I got it. But since I'm not setting off any strobes it really doesn't matter as I'm not wearing them out, and don't have to wait for them to refresh, etc…<br />
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Usually the background gets totally blown way…especially at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 settings. I've found that the 1.4 setting isn't very sharp so I just go to 2.0 or 2.8 for better results.<br />
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Shot above: Michelle Parris. Df, 50mm 1.4, ambient light from modeling light Alien Bee strobe with 63" Octobox diffuser. Blueish light coming from the left if from two large glass doors (which are tinted) with shades open to daylight.</div>
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My newest old toy showed up today. I got a Nikon 35-105mm 1:35-4.5. It has a micro setting as well. Seems everyone is so set on getting the latest and greatest such as the newest 105 AF lens that no one wants this lens anymore. Well, they don't want to pay much for it. I got this one for $59. It looks and works like new so that's a big plus since I got it on eBay and you take your chances. I just now put it on my Df and I love the size of it…..very small compared to my other monster zooms. It looks about the size of one of those 2/3rd's lenses…really! You pull out the barrel to zoom….works very well. One drawback I'll have to get used to is that it's closest focus range is about 2 feet! Even the micro setting you have to be about 1.5 feet away before it focuses……In most cases this should't be a problem. I have a cheap 2x teleconverter: Nikon TC-200 2x that I also got on eBay. Again, everyone is after the full AF assessors and no one is looking for the manual focus items. I put this on the Df with the 35-105 and it doubled it's range. I have to still be about 2 feet back but I can now fill the frame with whatever I'm focusing one! Can't wait to try this out outside on some plants and insects!<br />
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Here is a shot taken with the Df using the 35-105 3.5-4.5 lens with the Teleconverter TC-200. </div>
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Don't just go for the latest thing! Experiment! And you can get very sharp lenses for very little $$. Don't be fooled by the need for 1.4 or 2.8 only lenses as most of the time the sharpest settings are not at the lowest apertures anyway. </div>
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I was so scarred that someone would see us walking around outside….we got to the other building and it was like the first building but had nothing interesting painted on the walls…..so we walked back across. We found some cool large pipes laying in the grass outside and Felina posed inside of these tubes. And we found some other interesting things to shoot near. We could have shot there for days but as we were getting more and more nervous about getting cought we moved back to where we started out. At one point Felina stopped and said she heard someone. We froze…and waited…..I didn't hear anything but we were freaked out. We were there for about one hour or so but it seemed like a day! We were just walking to the fence and Felina said, "We made it!". I said, "Don't say that till we get back to the car!" But turned out nothing happened to us and we did make it back to the car.<br />
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That night Dean LeCrone picked me up and we went to Ocean Beach and ate at Hodad's. Everyone around us was dressed in costume for Halloween!<br />
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The next day Felina met me at the hotel and we did some underwater shooting in the hotel pool. It was advertised to be heated but it wasn't. We still used it and it was tolerable…..looking today to see if we got any good shots from all that.<br />
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I'll post up a few behind the scenes here soon.-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-28608018689452902562013-10-18T13:02:00.001-07:002018-09-05T23:11:26.049-07:00#8 My Camera Progression or AddictionIf I can remember correctly, this is the progression of my addictive camera use:<br />
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<b>1965-1970</b>: When I was 9 years old in 1965 my dad handed me his <b>Bell & Howell 252</b> 8mm camera and let me shoot some footage for a few seconds. I was hooked! I still have the camera in a leather case and my Dad always scratched his name or initials on everything he owned!<br />
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I used this for many short movies that I shot mostly with my friends around the neighborhood in some bike riding adventures, and mini mystery stories that today, don't make much sense. But I sure had fun making them. I rarely edited them but had a small metal splicer and glue for that. Usually the film wouldn't hold the splice so made a huge mess. I eventually just stopped editing the film and tried to shoot everything in sequence. The crazy outtakes are right there in the film (we laughed at those mistakes more than anything else.) which only my friends and family ever watched. </div>
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Around <b>1970</b> my Uncle Joe gave me his Super8 camera: <b>Kodak XL55</b>, and I started shooting movies with that. It was much easier than the Bell & Howell in that the Kodak Super8 had film cartridges that you just popped in to reload and unload, where the Bell & Howell you had to go in the dark and try and feed the film around inside like a film camera, and pray it was in correctly. This was a wild time as you'd shoot your 3 minutes of film and take it to a drug store and after you'd saved up about $8 or so you could get the film back and run it through the projector and see what you shot weeks before! The XL55 also used batteries so no more hand winding the camera! The Bell & Howell you wound it up and then shot as the spring inside would keep the film advancing correctly. You at least were not winding it continuously, while shooting, like the old black and white movies shot in the 1920's were!</div>
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My Dad also used a <b>Kodak Retina</b> still camera and usually shot with color slide film. I don't have the camera right in front of me right now (I do have it!) I think it's a Retina 1a. It looks very similar to the shot posted here. Mine has the partial leather body cover with strap. My Uncle brought this camera back from Germany at the end of WWII where he purchased it. I think my Dad was way more into photography and either just kept using it or my Uncle gave it to him. (I later researched this camera online and it seems the camera wasn't sold in the US till end of 1949. I'm thinking now the story I was told was wrong and my Uncle bought this about 4 years later than everyone thought, unless it was out years earlier in Germany.)</div>
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<b>1974-1975</b>: I used the <b>Kodak Retina</b> when I first went to college in 1974 and started taking some photography classes. It was totally manual. You guessed the distance from your subject (that was the focus!) and guessed the exposure settings (that was your meter reading!). So you just guessed everything and hoped for the best. Fortunately most of the shots I took with the camera turned out fine as eventually you get a feel for what settings are working in sun, or shade, etc....and the focus wasn't that picky so most things were in focus. I had a class assignment where I was to do a self portrait and I bought a small timer that screwed into the shutter button....and it worked. A few years later this timer jammed up the camera but at some point my Dad had it fixed and it still works today. </div>
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<b>1975-1985</b>: My mother felt sorry for me and took me to a camera store near my college and I got the <b>Pentax MX</b> camera. I wanted a Nikon but they cost way too much.... I also got a darkroom enlarger and tons of other gear to print my own black and white photos. So, I can definitely say that she was supporting my art career, and the fact she paid for most of my college expenses! (I had a job during the summers and saved all that to pay for books and food and such...(now photo film/paper and chemicals!) This camera was a 30 year jump in technology from the Retina! It had a built in exposure meeter (a line would go up or down and you tried to keep it in the center for best exposure!) And you could actually look though the viewfinder and see if the shot was in focus or not! What a concept! I'd buy bulk rolls of Tri-X 400 black and white film with a friend of mine and we'd roll-our-own canisters of 36 shots or so each. We would skip classes run around town shooting things then rush back to the house I was renting near the collage, and develop the film, then develop some black and white 8 x 10 prints. In just a few hours you could see the shots you just took! Amazing! Just seeing the shots in the same day was mind blowing and nearly impossible as everyone else took the film to the drug store and waited a week or two. </div>
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The guy here (Elno Swartz) at the art board hired me at the advertising agency summer of 1978, my first job out of college. With his guidance I learned the correct way to paint and illustrate using an airbrush and a brush. I had to unlearn some of the things I'd picked up in college and do things his way. But he was right, and I was so glad I listened to him! He'd been in the business for 40 years with his work on full pages in Life magazine among others...</div>
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Here is a shot of a co-student in one of my classes around 1978. His whole family was part of their own little circus troupe. And yes, he did come to class once in his clown costume and make up. He later went off to Barnum and Bailey Clown College. Shooting his family on stage was my first ever assignment!</div>
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<b>1985-1999</b>: My MX was getting so much use and I was actually getting paid for some photo shoots now and then (though I look back now and realize I still didn't know much about composition or what I knew I didn't really apply it.). I was hired to shoot photos for a college brochure and was working with the designer. He would point out what I needed to cover and I shot it. The school hired me also to shoot their graduation commencement event. During this time around 1985 my MX camera winder started acting up and stopped working. I mailed it off to a place in NY and they fixed it and mailed it back. I decided during all this I'd better have a back up camera so in a pawn shop I got a <b>Pentax MEplus</b>...it had an auto exposure setting! Wow, another advancement! So I mostly used the ME after that point. The MX was eventually lost when I loaned it out and didn't see it again leaving me with just the ME. I eventually bought a cheap zoom lens for it that was probably 24-80mm or so. This was my first zoom lens and I've always been hooked on them over the prime lenses. I never wanted to lose a shot fiddling around changing out the lenses. Especially once the quality of the zooms equaled the prime lenses. My work in commercial art (I ran my own graphic art studio from 1983-1996) didn't allow me much time to shoot many photos, just the occasional shot to use as reference for an illustration, or the occasional cover photo for a magazine now and then. Many years would go by and I was getting into video again...my kids were all born in the 80's so I was shooting tons of video of them growing up in the 90's, and some stills with the ME. Here is a photo I took during the shoot at Lee Collage for their brochures. Some of the shots I hand colored to look vintage. This was a few years before I'd be using computers.</div>
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<b>1990-1999</b>: Shooting my kids at every event, dance classes, baseball, basketball, you name it, I always had this bad boy (<b>Magnavox EasyCam CVR 325</b>) with me. And usually also the Pentax ME around my neck at the same time! I even took this camcorder on roller coasters! Crazy! It shot full VHS tapes so you just popped them in the VHS payer and watched what you just did earlier in the day! We had so much fun with this camera. I used it constantly for 9 years and it never acted up, never failed to perform! VHS tapes were cheap so I shot entire events! Sure, no one wanted to sit and watch all this video but I still had it! I didn't edit any of it, just shot it and watched it and saved the tapes. Years later I had all the tapes converted to mini HD tapes and I sometimes load them into a computer and play around with editing them. I made 3 DVD's of 1990-1993 or something. I go now to play those DVD's and they don't want to work. You can sure say something for the old VHS tapes as they may not look as sharp but you could still watch them years later! Now, no one has a VHS player. After I went on to other cameras the kids still used this as a VHS player for years after! I bought a small computer monitor and hooked this to it and they could play movies they rented or had recorded off the TV with this! It was pretty much all plastic but still a bit heavy but never gave up! Came in a high impact carry case.</div>
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<b>1999:</b> the start of the Digital age (for me): I must of been reading about digital cameras in the photo magazines as I'm not sure what possessed me to run out and buy one. I knew I had to have the "see it immediately on the back" feature! I didn't know much else. I did know that I already knew how to use Photoshop and knew about computers since my first one was in 1990! I had Photoshop as soon as it was available for the PC. In 1996 I got a job working for Sierra On-Line working on video games and creating art with Photoshop and working with 3D programs like 3DMax. So I was also excited to have more control over the photos myself. I'd been retouching photos since 1978 when I got my first job out of college for an advertising agency in Akron, OH. But as soon as computers came on the scene I jumped on the bandwagon! Anyway, I go in the camera store and the guys there didn't seem to know digital cameras from shinola....I got a few bits and pieces of info on the 20 or so cameras they had, they said-- were crappy....these guys were probably diehard film camera guys now that I think about it.</div>
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I finally decided on the 1 megapixel <b>Kodak DC210plus</b>.( One megapixel, 29-58mm 2x zoom. 1152 x864 images.) It was $300 I think, which was an outrageous amount to throw down back in 1999. At least for me it was. And you have to realize my last film camera was still working and I'd had it for many years! I bought the 210plus and shot with it for a while and loved the fact the shots were immediately viewable and I liked controlling the post-processing. I quickly realized that 1 megapixel was great for online use but printing out something was mostly unusable. I needed more resolution! So I was already in despair...I used the camera for about a year like this....and I probably started taking more shots than I did before, for sure.....and this probably kept my interest in photography going but I was still not happy.....Here is a shot with the DC210plus: </div>
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<b>2001-2003</b>: Finally, a camera that could keep up with me and give me quality shots! The <b>Canon G1</b> was 3.3 megapixels, 2045 x 1536 images, 28-100 3.6x zoom, 1/1.8" CCD. From the specs 3.3 megapixels don't sound like much today but for back in the early 2000's this was fantastic! The quality was finally what I was looking for! I could print a 8 x 10 and it looked great! I was very happy with this camera for a while.....I eventually shot a birthday party and got carried away shooting with the flash over and over and later on the flash was never powering up quite the same...I almost burned it up I guess.....looking back I could have added a better flash to the hotshoe and kept using this camera even longer....though I have an addiction to getting a new camera about every two years even if I'm happy with what I've got! Hey, it's me again!</div>
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<b>2004-2005</b>: <b>Canon Powershot S70</b>. I need to mention that most of the cameras I'll sell the ones I'm not happy with before I jump into buying another one. This one I was very happy with but sold it as I was moving on to another one....could of kept this one longer. It was small, could almost fit in a pocket, 3.6x zoom, 28-100mm, 7.1 megapixels. 2207 x 3009 image size. I mostly bought this to take on a trip with Bonnie and my parents. We stayed in San Francisco for a few days then took a huge cruise ship for many days at sea to Hawaii! I ended up taking over 2000 shots with this camera on that trip. I was very happy with this camera till I went out one night with a photographer friend to shoot some night scenes of Seattle. We get there and the weather is perfect. The city is beautiful....and this camera had very few manual settings so I missed the shots. He got some fantastic shots with a Canon DSLR. I knew it was time to take the next step.... though I will later keep a camera on my belt that is smaller and something I can take with me where my larger cameras can't go. I'll also include those cameras here.</div>
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<b>2005-2007: Nikon D50. </b>We decide we need to move from Seattle, WA area and live near my parents in Kentucky. Not something I ever thought I'd be doing. I'd escaped from KY two times before, would I ever make it out a third time? To ease the pain I decided I'd get me a nice DSLR. I did my research and read all about the different choices. A day before we are to move a house full of stuff to KY I go in a Ritz Camera store and told them I wanted a nice Canon DSLR that I'd read about. Next thing I know I'm leaving the store with the Nikon D50. To this day i don't know how they did this? I always do my research thoroughly and know more than the salesmen at these places. All I can figure is that all those years of not being able to afford a Nikon caught up with me....in the back of my mind I'd always thought Nikon was the best of the best. I'm sure they probably were back in the 70's but a lot had happened through the years.....I'm sure Canon was the cutting edge of digital at this time, or so I thought....anyway, I bought it and took it with me shooting all the way to Kentucky. Again, I quickly realize this is the starter camera for Nikon DSLR's. It has the quick scene modes, and all that jazz....and other dumbed down features.....but the quality was fantastic. 300 dpi shots, 6 megapixels, 2" LCD. I used the kit lens of 24-50 or something like that and then started experimenting with Tamron zooms but settled on the Nikkor 18-200 eventually. </div>
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<b>2007-2010: Nikon D300</b>. 12 megapixels, 3" LCD, 4288 x 2848 image sizes. This is the camera I still have as I can't bear to part with it. It really could do everything I needed it to do. If you have the right lens you can shoot any time day or night. Mostly I was using the Nikkor 18-200 with this camera and it was 3.5-5.5 so didn't open up like the lenses I use now that are 2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range. I used this camera most of the time I was in KY and got some amazing shots with it. The only real reason I don't still use it is the fact it wasn't a full frame sensor camera and of course I have to have the latest thing! We moved to San Diego, September of 2010. In December I started shooting with a meet up group that shot models, and I learned more about the equipment. I did the first shoot with the D300 and the shots looked great. Especially with a Nikkor 60mm lens I had at the time. But you know me now.....I had to keep moving forward anyway! Really, I could have easily stayed with this camera for many years, just trying out different lenses. I mostly shot with the 18-200 at this point. Again, if I'd just though more about lenses and getting better ones, I could have stayed with the D300. The shots I was getting with this camera were fantastic and detail was amazing. It also helped that I was learning how to light the subjects using off-camera flashes. I got tons of experience in a short amount of time by doing lots of shoots. </div>
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<b>2011-2012: Nikon D700</b>. 12 megapixels, full frame, 3" LCD, Nikkor 28-300 3.5- 5.6 VRII. My timing was good as I'd be doing more and more shoots and this camera could really keep up the pace with me. It became a part of me and I didn't have to fiddle around looking for settings as they are mostly right on the camera within easy reach. The full frame really did make a difference as it was giving me so much more of a tonal range...with details in the very dark areas and very light areas. Still shooting in very little light was a bit of a problem but since most of the time I had my own lights with me, this was mostly a non-issue. I eventually wised up and got a better lens. <b>Nikkor 24-70 2.8.</b> This lens with this camera was a win-win situation. Suddenly I could get the exposures right on very quickly and the focus was even faster than the D300. I even bought the battery grip mostly to look cool (more like a D3!), and it did add an extra battery to the mix. One good plus was the D700 used the same batteries as the D300....unheard of...so now I had 3 to use as I always had one extra with me with the D300. I'll do about 100 photo shoots with this camera and be very happy. Upgrade? Not me, no way....this is the demon dog I've always wanted and it was $3,000 so hell, I can't afford to upgrade anyway! Or will I?</div>
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<b>2013: Nikon D4</b>. Nikkor 70-200 2.8, Nikkor 16mm 2.8. 16 megapixels, 10 Frames Per Second, 1080p HD video. This camera can see and shoot in next to no light at all! Seriously......I can see almost nothing and it will still focus and shoot! The sensor is so sensitive....I can always shoot a few stops lower than with any other camera in the same light. It also helps that I have two of the best zoom lenses Nikon makes both 2.8 throughout the zoom. Really took me a while to catch on to how much better that is. And these lenses are sharp no matter what setting I have them on! I get basically the same shots as the D700 but I don't have to fiddle with them in Photoshop nearly as much. This camera has a fantastic dynamic range to the tones and colors, it's amazing. I really wanted to up grade from the D700 with the D800 but the super high Megapixels actually turned me off.....I don't want to deal with tons of super large files! Maybe if I'm shooting images that need to be blown up to billboard size but then I'll just shoot more shots of whatever it is and stitch them together for one massive image. This hasn't been something I've had to deal with so I'm very happy being able to print shots at 18 x 24 for my studio walls. The more I use this camera the more features I find it seems. </div>
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New addition December 2013: Nikon Df. I also got the retro leather cover for it. Here it is with my oldest Nikkor lens, 50mm 1.4, I picked up the lens for cheap back in 2006 or so. The Df was $2700 so now I know I'm crazy! I'm having a blast playing around with this and the images are amazing! Same sensor as my D4. This will be my backup camera or to take to car shows etc…where I want to lighten the load. I will end up using this camera more and more since it is way lighter and seems to do just a touch better with skin tones than the D4. </div>
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I could go on and on but to sum up these cameras the SX230 I've kept the longest by far. It has the 14x zoom, and shoots fantastic video as well. The G10 was too large to carry around everywhere, the Lumix was nice but the shots were mostly soft and fuzzyish.....the S90 was great quality but after a short while mine started to take a while to come on, and then when you were looking through the LED to compose a shot it would just go off. You'd have to work fast. Just small problems that the SX230 has not had. I've taken it everywhere and used it quite a bit. Here are a few shots taken with it: </div>
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This is much harder than it looks and most shots are not in focus (even though i took my time and tried to give it time to focus) or the details are soft, or the pose is wrong, etc....Still looking for a camera with sharper images. The shots above were worked on with Topaz Labs filters, Photoshop, magic, anything I could do to make them better.....</div>
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And soon I'll be trying out the Olympus TG-2 (Underwater):</div>
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I got to try it out a month ago or so and here is one of the shots:</div>
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Sharks, turtle, coral added in later. This camera is much sharper than the Fujifilm XP100 but I'll probably not be satisfied till I try out the Nikon AW1 underwater camera!</div>
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Another pocket camera I just bought: Sony HX50V. </div>
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I did some online research and a lot of the site reviewing smaller compact cameras were still choosing the Sony HX50V even though it first came out over a year ago! So I went to Best Buy (not the best place for the price but I wanted to just look it over. Of course I went ahead and bought it. It has a 24-710mm equvilent zoom! It has all the manual settings and still fits on my belt though it's bulkier than what I was using. It shoots great HD video! 60fps or 30fps. This is the main reason I'll be using it...to shoot video on the fly and of course that crazy zoom! I've had this camera for a month now and and very happy with it. Here is a shot of a concert where I was about 50 feet away with about 10 rows of people in front of me. I raised up the camera over my head and zoomed way in and got this shot: </div>
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Later I realized that if you over-ride the auto settings the camera performs even better than I ever expected! I set up a little still life with a flower and a softbox and with all manual settings got this shot: </div>
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What really amazed me is that by choosing all the correct settings myself like ISO 80, etc...I could get a shot with this much detail with this non-full frame sensor! When I viewed this shot at 100% on my monitor.....I was still blown away! Didn't think this was possible with a $300-$350 pocket camera. </div>
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This one is a Kodak Junior six-20 Series II that my mom gave me around 2006 that she picked up in a swap meet or second hand store. I think it's from around 1919 but I'll recheck that. I took this shot of it and used it in my first photo book.</div>
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Here are a few old cameras and flashes, I recently got off eBay. </div>
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This is the Argus C3 made famous recently for being used in the Harry Potter Movie.</div>
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Argus C3 with flash. I actually added some black and white tri-x film to it and I'm trying it out for kicks. First time I've shot 35mm film since around 1997. I'll let you know how the shots come out. The exposure meeter came with it up on the cold-shoe attachment. It doesn't seem to work though. I got the flash attachment and some bulbs from a separate eBay auction.</div>
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I was bidding on a Nikkor 50mm 1.4 Auto-S lens and someone out bid me but I didn't care because I'd seen another auction in the meantime for the very same lens, plus this Nikkormat camera, and a focusing bellows, for just $4 more! So I jumped on this. Didn't realize it also had the body case and strap that seems never used. The lens was very similar to the older 50mm 1.4 I already had and both are soft at the widest aperture. My next experiment will be with a macro 50mm….</div>
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This is my Retina 1a from above in this blog but I added this Argus flash…and it works! I have some Tri-X in this camera also and I'll be developing it and seeing how the shots come out.</div>
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Here is the old Retina 1a again but this time sporting the classic folding metal flash attachment. I have not tried this flash as i don't want to waste the bulbs.</div>
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I also bought a cheap light meter to use with this setup…but I seem to have misplaced it. It wasn't giving off the correct reading anyway….that's my next mission----- to find an old, cool looking, working light meeter…..I've never used one before! Well, unless you count the ones built into the cameras.</div>
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I loved the Sony HX50V so much I ran out and got the upgrade: Sony HX90V since it had a pop up electronic viewfinder! </div>
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2 more new cameras? One is the Sony RX100 M4. And the other one is the Nikon P900. </div>
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I went on a trip to Europe: Paris and Budapest and wanted the best pocket camera I could find. It was the Sony RX100 M4. </div>
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It has a 1" sensor, a 24-70 Ziess lens and can shoot RAW files! Pop up viewfinder and tilt screen! </div>
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It really did the trick during the trip!</div>
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I'm amazed how sharp the files are. And the videos are also great! It will shoot 4K video (5 min clips) but I've not checked out that feature yet as I just got a SD card that could handle that speed. It's very specific in what quality card you have to have to use that feature. It also shoot High Speed Video for ultra slow motion! Here is a shot from this camera where I used it almost all the time at Ren Faire this year (2016): </div>
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And I've even used the RX100IV underwater with a DiCApak underwater housing!</div>
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And I've had the Nikon P900 for a few months now and use it for the 83x zoom feature! It has a small sensor but I'm blown away with the image quality. Both of these cameras are 20mp resolution cameras. Here is a look at this camera and a sample shot:<br />
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It looks large and bulky but actually it's about middle size to me, and the weight of it is almost nothing compared to my D4 and Df with lenses attached. This weighs less than the lens from one of those heavier cameras! This camera also shoots great video! The reach on the zoom is 24mm-2000mm! Wow! And the quality does go down the farther you zoom out but for 90% of the shots I'm happier than I should be! It's really amazing. It's only drawback is that light areas in a shot tend to go pure white. Fortunately this isn't something that happens all the time....but hey, how else can you get a 2000mm zoom?<br />
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P900 around where I live: (Surfer was shot recently in Oceanside)</div>
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So on my trip to Europe I sometimes had my Nikon Df with 24-70 lens, and the P900, and the RX100 M4. All at the same time! That way I was ready for anything! And it worked!</div>
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And I just remembered another camera I have had for about 2 years, the Hero3+ GoPro! I've mostly used it for underwater shoots along with the Olympus G4. </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>UPDATE Jan 16th, 2017</b></span></div>
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Been a while since I added to this posting. Back in June of 2016 after 9 months of research via YouTube and internet forums, etc....I bought a Sony A7R2. </div>
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And a Sony 24-240 zoom lens. I took it on a trip to DisneyWorld. I was blown away at the quality of the shots I got! Here are a few:<br />
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I was so impressed shooting in all types of light situations (The fireworks shots were handheld, night, pouring rain, holding an umbrella, 1/60th a second 6400 ISO...amazing since this lens is not a low light lens by any means. 3.5-6.3. But it pulled it off! I then shot one of my meetup events all with the same set up! Other than changing settings more often since the zoom darkens the exposure when zooming in.....it worked like a charm!</div>
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Next I shot Alley Art Fest in Vista: (some shots with the Sony 55mm 1.8)</div>
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I was so impressed that around November of 2016 I sold all my Nikon gear from 10 years and bought another A7R2 and more lenses. For model shoots I have both cameras around my neck, one with a 35mm 2.8 Zeiss lens for wide shots, and the other with a Zeiss 55 1.8 for more portrait head shots. This works out great as I don't have to keep swapping lenses, and can get all the shots! Both of these lenses are super sharp! I now have these lenses: Zeiss 35 2.8, Zeiss 55 1.8, Sony 28 2.0, 90 2.8 G macro, and 24-240 3.5-6.5. Also a 16mm Fisheye that attaches to the 28 2.0 making it a 3.5. I'm now covered from 16 fisheye to 240mm......not too shabby. From a shoot early 2017 near Lake Arrowhead up in the mountains. Most of the time I was using the 35 2.8 since I wanted to get the backgrounds in the shot: </div>
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My most recent shoot (01/11/2017) in my studio (shot mostly with the 35mm but some closeups with the amazing 55 1.8):</div>
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Redhead: Lana Vic Sin, with Jessica Pierce.</div>
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Also in 2016 I started working for Colour In Your Life where I'm shooting video with a 3 camera setup for interviews with artists. The shows will be on YouTube and on a TV show in Australia and New Zealand and soon in the US. I tried shooting with my A7R2's but to get the look they were used to I bought 3 Sony FDR-AX53 camcorders. </div>
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Then the <b>A7Riii</b> came out </div>
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and I had to have that! Faster focusing, joystick to move the focus point, and 10FPS, etc....of course it's now my favorite camera of all time!<br />
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-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-69046796478543426392013-10-16T23:59:00.000-07:002013-10-16T23:59:50.254-07:00#6 Catching UpWell it's October 16th, and Thursday the 10th was another IEMPG group shoot with Jay Boivin where we shot models; Candie, Felina and Ty. The theme was sports/health and so we had them holding and eating fruit and vegetables and using some workout equipment. Felina had some fun with blueberries, lemons, strawberries getting really messy! I've yet to work on most of those shots but did post a few of her with some peppers:<br />
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She brought some great outfits to match up with the items she was posing with! It really helps when the models think out what they would like to do at the shoot, preparing ahead. She does her own make up as well!<br />
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Some models show up late and are not ready at all and this really cuts down the time we have to shoot with them. I need to make up a handout to give models tips on what do do before a shoot. And post it up on the group files area.<br />
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Candie was also ready and liked working out with the bands and the small weights that we had on hand.<br />
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We had a new shooter join us for the group shoot: Susan. Welcome to Susan and I was glad to see her also show up for the IEMPG shoot we did on Saturday the 12th! That shoot was Good Faeries, Bad Faeries in Fairmont Park, Riverside, CA. We had a great turn out with 4 photographers and 6 models if I remember right. Here are a few shots I posted from that shoot: <span id="goog_640645327"></span></div>
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<span id="goog_640645326"></span>-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-26332943152499412522013-10-16T23:54:00.000-07:002013-10-17T00:03:32.137-07:00#5 Weddings!Well I shot Tim and Meagan Dameron's wedding on October the 2nd, and it was a lot of fun! They were so easy to work with (as I knew they would be) since I'd shot Meagan many times before with my meet up groups and shot their engagement photos a month or so before.<br />
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Jay Boivin even came by for an hour or so and helped me out, mostly shooting the visiting family and friends. I also shot some video along the way and edited it and posted it on YouTube: <a href="http://youtu.be/0VvZyb_l8Sc">http://youtu.be/0VvZyb_l8Sc</a><br />
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I also attended a wedding October 5th, on a boat cruise and did take a few photos which I've not had time to process yet. Newport Beach area. They had a photographer as part of a group package deal. I watched as he did a good job of covering everything but shot the whole time with a flash on the camera though he was bouncing the light off a low white ceiling. I always like to take my large beauty dish and strobe and get some better than average shots with it, at least when all the excitement dies down and you can actually concentrate.<br />
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Then on October 6th I shot another wedding Jason and Krista in Dana Point, CA. It was a beautiful location and everything went off without a any problems. I was in three locations as I started out shooting in their hotel rooms and then at the wedding itself and then on the beach at sunset.<br />
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What is in my camera bag, what do I take to a wedding shoot? I take my D4 and my D700, extra batteries (charged) for both. Lots of memory cards which I check beforehand, formatted and ready to go. Two or three small flashes and extra AA batteries. Glass cleaning cloth, and my trusty Hoodman Loupe for seeing the shots on the back of the camera in all sorts of lighting conditions. I also take a large light stand and a small one with adapter to screw on my receiver on the small stand. I take a few 5LB ankle weights that velcro around the legs to keep them from blowing way. I usually bring at least one Alien Bee strobe with the battery pack. I also have an extra battery for it. I bring at least 3 receivers and 3 or so triggers. If one of them is acting up I just replace it and worry about it later. I also have a beauty dish with sock to diffuse it even more and a carrying case for it. If I have to take all this at once and shoot outside I also bring my red cart that has some nice big wheels on it and pull everything with it. I have the cameras, with one lens (I use the Nikkor 24-70 2.8 and the Nikkor 70-200 2.8) in one camera bag, and the other camera bag has batteries, and the battery packs etc...cords and such. I always put everything in the same place in the bags so I know where to look for things. I have an extra lens case cover that I carry when needed for the 70-200 and swap them out from time to time.</div>
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<br />-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-41872092814795520902013-10-01T15:39:00.000-07:002013-10-17T12:15:52.135-07:00#4 Preparing for a Wedding ShootToday I'm to prepare for my 5 days, 5 things planned (4 are photo shoots) in a row......<br />
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Tomorrow I shoot Meagan and Ted's wedding at 4:00. I was very fortunate that Jay Boivin my partner in 2 meet up groups has offered to assist me and will meet me there. I was just telling him about it and he offered his services for a few hours of the wedding. I'd just been informed that odds were that no one there could assist me (usually there are quite a few people that would love to have something to do!) so Jay was kind enough to offer and I took him up on it! The wedding was at first to be just a simple ceremony in the back yard, but has now turned into a fully catered affair and many people attending. It is now near a country club, etc....<br />
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I have most of today and sometime tomorrow to prepare. I have most of what I need already in my car since I did a location shoot not long ago and needed similar items. Usually I take two cameras, two lenses, extra batteries for everything, two or three stands. I take at least one Alien Bee strobe with a beauty dish. For this wedding I'll take two of everything just in case. I also take three small flashes and use these for back up and for side lighting the scene and on their own in locations where I can't fit the beauty dish. I have a large battery to run the strobes and an extra battery pack for that also! I bring lots of triggers and receivers for triggering the lights. When something doesn't work I quickly switch to another one and deal with the problems later....<br />
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Here is a shot from one of the first weddings I was photographer for, and some more recent ones on a boat and a pier....<br />
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If the couple are relaxed then everyone else seems to take their lead and relax and everyone has a great time. Plus I get some awesome shots! This really should be a fun day for everyone, not something to just get out of the way or suffer through....Why do it up big if you don't plan on enjoying every minute of it!<br />
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Can't wait to post up some shots after tomorrow's wedding as it should be very interesting as the bride is a model and comfortable being shot and will be more laid back about it. We will probably get some more artistic shots out of it if there is time. I think there will be time since she knows the quality of work I strive for and she will want to take advantage of having me shooting that day.<br />
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<span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">I just wanted to mention that I was working on a shot the other day of model Sabrina Carter next to a tombstone. The graveyard doesn't want us to show the actual names on them so I always swap them out. This time, out of the blue, I decided to put on this one JAMES DEAN. And his dates of birth and death to make it look legit. After I posted the shot I realized that the date of his death: September 30th was the very same day that I'd just worked on the shot and posted it up to the group site and to Facebook! Is that creepy or what? 58 years to the day. Here is that shot: </span></div>
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I just realized I already posted this shot of Sabrina in my last entry so I'll add a new one I just worked on (Model: Megan J. Martine) today:<br />
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This shot of the boots will be a part of a coffee table book I'm working on showing shoes, boots and some legs.....I'm trying to think of a title for it...."From the Ground Up" ?<br />
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Weird fact: Did you know that the young guy that pulled out in front of Dean causing the car crash (other then the fact Dean was driving way too fast.) had the last name Turnipseed?)<br />
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Photography Tip: Where to focus: When shooting models I set my focus on Spot Focus setting. I can move this target spot. the camera is focusing on, with the dial next to my thumb. I put it on their eye or some feature on their face. This way I know the shot will be in correct focus. Depending on your aperture settings, you can control how much of the background beyond that point will be in focus. If you can shoot at 2.8 (Though some lenses have a sweet spot of closer to F6) or wide open you'll get a much more narrow focus area which is usually what you want to keep the viewer of the photo's attention to the model more than the background elements. If you have a longer lens and can shoot 70mm up to 300 etc...you can then blur out the background even more! I've used ND (Neutral Density) filters before and that will darken the scene and allow you to open up the f-stop and create that shallow depth of field. I have used this mostly with the 28-70 lens.) The more expensive ND filters are best as they hold the crisp detail better. I use the ones where you can turn the filter and get different degrees of darkness added to your scene. I can make a daytime shot look like it was taken at night if I want. Also on very bright days having the filter on helps even out the balance for the exposure of the shot. You eliminate that really bright hot spot from the sun for instance.</div>
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-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-17956515045317901062013-09-30T13:04:00.002-07:002013-09-30T14:26:28.134-07:00#3 Post Production DayRecovering today from the Graveyard shoot. I was on my feet for about 6 hours straight and that takes me a while to recover from. I have to be ready by Wednesday as I'm shooting Meagan Williams wedding in the late afternoon. This should be fun as she is a great model and use to being in front of a camera and will know just what she wants! I've shot her and her fiance Tim together before as I took some engagement photos for them in a park a few weeks ago. Tim is a great guy and so this will be one of the easier weddings to shoot, I'm guessing. I've not shot very many weddings but the ones I have shot got some great images and everyone was excited about them. I don't advertise that I'm a wedding photographer but I get enough of them to do just from referrals from models I've shot. In fact I have another one on a beach this coming Sunday. Shooting weddings is very stressful, mainly because they want you in so many directions at once. The smaller weddings are much easier since you can just stay in one place and catch everything. The more relaxed everyone is the better. And if they trust me to do my job I can just breeze through it in most cases. I know what shots need to be grabbed, and I know the shots I'd like to do for the couple. Finding the time to just get some great shots of the wedding couple is the problem. It's come to my attention that some wedding photographers take the bride out in full dress days before the wedding and get some of the most fantastic shots that are later used in the photo book of the entire wedding. I'm going to suggest that to brides I shoot in the future.<br />
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Here are a few more of the shots I took yesterday at the graveyard:<br />
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When shooting the tombstones the cemetery wants to make sure we change the names on them. I usually put a celebrity name or my own name or someone from the shoot. This was my 3rd time shooting at this location. We were able to shoot in the mausoleum the first time I was there, the second time it was locked. This time they said we could shoot in there but once I went in they said I could only shoot in the doorway area. Once I went to do that and they made me stop. Then they locked the front gate making it hard for us to get our stuff out as we then had to carry everything way out the back gate. Not sure why they were being such a pain this time. They also had a guy just sitting and watching us the whole shoot and they'd never done this before either. They didn't stop us from doing anything else though.<br />
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We had 7 photographers and 5 models at this event. Not counting me, and co-host Jay and his wife Heather. Also Tim, a professional animal trainer brought his wolf : Willow Wolf to the shoot. I posted one with the wolf in the post before this one. The wolf was very nice and calm, and a couple of times it moved over to the models face and scared me but it only wanted to lick them!<br />
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I'll be posting even more shots today as I'm mostly just working on photos as I'm too sore to walk around much. I'm planning to be very busy this coming week and weekend.....Wednesday is the Meagan wedding I mentioned above, then Thursday is a shoot at the ARTWALK that they have the first Thursday of each month in Riverside, CA. It'll be a free shoot for my UUUP meet up group. We use this one as a sort of meet and greet, where members can meet me and Jay the organizers of the group, and we hand out biz cards....some models do join in usually and we shoot them all around this 100 year old building that was once a YMCA. Now it's called the Life Arts Building and houses lots of artist studios. On this ARTWALK day they open their doors and we can see what they are working on! This event covers other streets with art for sale. Then on Friday I collapse.....then Saturday I'm attending a wedding (not shooting this one) with my wife Bonnie as it's a co-worker that is getting married on a cruise ship. It was a package deal so everything was included. I have to dress up in a suit coat otherwise this should be fun. Sunday I'm shooting another wedding this time near a beach so that will be interesting. I've only met the bride to be once, and she seemed very nice, and her mother also easy to work with so far. It should go smoothly.<br />
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Photo Tip: When shooting models back up.....if you get too much of the background into the shot just crop it in closer later. If you are in too close you can't back up later in post production. You can add some background elements later but it's way harder than simply backing up at the shoot. Plus if you have the camera tilted too much during the shot and want to straighten it back up in post you have a much easier time of doing this if there is extra background to use. Also when shooting with 50mm to 2.8mm etc....watch out for wide angle distortion. If you are shooting wide angle and too close to a models face for instance the rest of her body will be out of proportion to her head. When I have to shoot less than 50mm I always lower my camera to about their waist as to keep the proportions more even from head to foot of the model. If I do take liberties it's that I'll go way lower and shoot up as this will have them a bit out of proportion but I like the fact it makes them look way taller. So it's a trade off.<br />
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Go out and shoot! Every time you do you get a bit better at it! Don't forget to search for anything on the internet you need/want to know..it's all there! And YouTube is a great source of help as well!<br />
My site is: <a href="http://www.afreemanphotography.com/">www.afreemanphotography.com</a>-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-87726262272343019712013-09-30T02:21:00.001-07:002013-09-30T13:07:51.702-07:00#2 Another Successful IEMPG Shoot!Well, I got back from my Ghostly Apparitions shoot in a cemetery with 5 models and a live wolf, in time to watch the last episode of Breaking Bad. Loved that series.<br />
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Here is a shot from today:<br />
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This is model and master cosplayer Jessie Cook! We had 7 photographers there, not including me, Jay Boivin and his wife Heather who co-hosted the event with me. It's the Inland Empire Models & Photographers Group (IEMPG). We had a blast shooting girls in gothic attire....gas masks, black wings and I paint model Olivia's face green for a witch look she was going for!<br />
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I'll be posting these up on the IEMPG site and also on my Facebook area. Tomorrow I plan to work on many more. I'm pretty sure my favorite theme that we shoot is this dark, horror look....I like the challange of taking these shots before dark but making them look like dead of night!</div>
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I shot today with my Silver Beauty dish with cover over it to diffuse it even more, and a small flash on the side for some high light or rim light effect. I should of done more lighting of the background elements but didn't think of this at the time....sometimes if the model is in dark clothes just lighting the wall behind them will bring them out more than trying to light them more from the side or back. Anyway, I'll be adding a few more here as I go along. </div>
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Here is one of model Kat Sheridan and Willow the Wolf!</div>
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Ted the owner and trainer of Willow said that Willow has been in many movies and TV shows so he's a bit of a star. I also got a few shots of Kat/Willow/Ted all together that I'll post tomorrow. </div>
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These were shot with a Nikon D4, and mostly today I was using my 70-200 lens to try and blur out the backgrounds more. I had plenty of room to back up so this worked pretty well. The first half of the shoot I was using my 24-70 2.8. It does a great job as well especially when I'm up close and trying to get the full body in head to toe. I got out the 70-200 to do some portrait like shots and just keep shooting with it the rest of the shoot.</div>
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Well, it's late and I'll have more to say tomorrow....</div>
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Have fun and keep shooting!</div>
-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817415292073796771.post-6316252781067362572013-09-29T09:50:00.001-07:002013-09-30T13:08:35.753-07:00#1 First Posting of the Master Photography BlogFirst Posting for this New Blog!<br />
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Let's see how long I can keep this up! Anyone placing bets?<br />
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I'm Allen Freeman and I'm not a master photographer. The tile of this blog is basically, or should be: How to Master Photography.....but, well, maybe someday this blog will be so darn awesome that it will be the MASTER PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG...or whatever....as long as you learn one thing from all this then it was worth it for me to keep posting here.<br />
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Frist about me. I'm Allen and I've been interested in photography since my dad handed me his 8mm camcorder (Kodak) when I was about 8 years old and said, "Here, film me and your mom and then pan it across this waterway...." I'm thinking.....who....me? What....hold this and what.....<br />
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I also saw my dad taking photos and having cameras as a hobby that he enjoyed since he was in high school. Here is one of his photos he took in the 50's of his sister. I love this shot and I scanned it in and cleaned it up from a small original print.<br />
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I also like the fact that from this shot we know it was taken around September 6th, 1954!</div>
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My dad was mostly shooting slide film and all his slides look as good now as they did when he took them. Which is cool. He never lost a shot to a hard drive crashing....just saying....</div>
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I mostly started out in my teens shooting movies with that 8mm camera that my dad had (He bought it around my birthday in 1956 with the projector and the blinding lights that were needed to shoot with indoors.) Mostly shooting my friends fake fighting, or a mini crime drama, etc...a bike chase....this eventually turned into more serious movie making with a friend in HS but after shooting a lot of expensive footage he realized that editing all this was too hard. He had film hanging down from his basement ceiling, I saw on the day he gave up. </div>
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OK, too much detail. I'll flash forward to when I went to college and I was using my dad's camera that his brother gave him when my Uncle Joe came back from WWII where he mostly typed in an office and took photos with this Kodak Retina he bought over there. (I have this camera now in my photo studio). My first photo class was pretty awesome as it was not a teacher for the class but an experienced LIFE photographer who ran the class. I can't remember his name but he did a huge spread for LIFE in a prison. He told us how he was deep into the heart of this place when he looked up and realized the guards had wondered off and he was surrounded by the inmates. He slowly lowered his camera and walked out. He was fine, but scared. </div>
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I'll be posting a lot more (too much?) about me and my early days of photography with some examples of my early work and tell you why it was so bad. I'll try and critique my work and yours if you send me anything and are brave enough for me to look it over and post here about it. You can email me a photo (web size is fine, 100 dpi) at: afreemanphotography@yahoo.com</div>
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In the mean time visit my web site at <a href="http://www.afreemanphotography.com/">www.afreemanphotography.com</a></div>
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More here tonight as I'm about to go to a photo shoot with my <a href="http://tinyurl.com/IEMPG">IEMPG</a> group, more about all that later. Here is an ad I posted about this shoot I'm doing in a Graveyard today.....</div>
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Email me questions you have about me or photography or about your photos...I'm here to help out. Oh, and before I go for today......I have 30+ years of graphic art experience (will post some of that along the way) and extensive photography experience mostly with shooting models in the last 3 years. I have a full time photo studio in Ontario, CA.<br />
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----Allen (9-29-13)-AFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348491562886342506noreply@blogger.com1