A few portraits and lifestyles from this past summer that have not been posted yet. Some are film, and some are digital. Not going to say anything about them, you decide for yourself.
Posts Tagged: Portrait
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Aug 09
Jerod Stoner: Portraits of People I Know
Jerod is the local pro I guess I could say. He has 4 tracks at his house, a 80 foot + jump, and a few other smaller ones. This is one of the smaller ones in the woods and by smaller I mean a 50ft step up jump.
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Aug 09
Doug Usko: Portraits of People I Know
Doug is one of the first people I ever snowboarded with at Ski Roundtop when I was in my early teens. Now 7 years later we still skate in Harrisburg when we can and Philadelphia for my first time last month.
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Aug 09
Holga Stories
I became interested in Ektachrome 64T Tungsten film so I bought myself a roll, and shoved it in my Holga 120N. Typicaly my Holga has no light leaks but because I took the frame holder piece out a lot of light was able to leak in. Unfortunately because of the light leaks it kinda ruined some of the effects I was trying to achieve with the film, so I’m going to buy another roll and try it again.
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Aug 09
Bladhill Billies
I spent the afternoon throwing Horseshoes and taking some action/portrait photos with a bunch of kids from the Baldhill area. Not a lot to write just look at the photos.
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Aug 09
My First Roll Of Kodak E100VS
Bought a roll of this film off the advice of Sam Muller and have to say it’s now my favorite super saturated slide film. I like it more then Fuji Velvia because it’s easier to scan and has much better skin tones. I shot a few frames at Big Blue with Alex, two portraits of Olivia Arden, and tried out a double exposure with her also.
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Aug 09
Olivia Arden Loves Nonsense
O my fish in the sky, shoes on the ceiling and trees walking by, bending down high, reaching up low. Everything seems to be wrong, right?
While most people might think fish in the sky and trees walking by are wrong, Olivia Arden does not. She loves ridiculousness and seeing the most peculiar things. She was really upset while the photographs were being taken that she could not see a girl with balloons on a roof herself.
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Jul 09
Contax IIIa
When my grandfather passed away this winter I received all of his camera gear, and one of the items was a well preserved Contax IIIa Camera with the original leather case. The camera itself looks beautiful, the metal still has a bright shine, and the leather case is in perfect condition. After doings some google searches I found a user manual for the camera and loaded in my first and probably last roll of film threw it.
The manual did not explain the controls of the camera very well and after using some WD-40 to loosen up some of the dials and some playing around with it I was able to figure the controls out. The few features I did like were the built-in photoelectric exposer meter, F/2-F/22 Lens, timer mode, bulb mode, and the 1/1250 shutter speed. The features I did not like was the max film speed that could be used with the in camera meter was 400 ASA, weight of the camera, and the lens. The lens is a 50 mm I believe and it was just never what I wanted for the situation I was shooting.
Overall the camera is not going to be one I take out very often, and will probably sit on my shelf as a collector item. Below is a photo of the camera along with a few of the photos I shot with it.
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Jul 09
Polaroid of the Day
I ran out of film. See the older days on my flickr.
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Jun 09
Balancing Backlighting With Flash
Have you been in a situation where the subject you wanted to shoot was in the shade or had a shadow cast on it, and the background was blown out in your attempt to properly expose your subject?
EXAMPLE
In this post we are going to cover how to make much better photos out of situations like this.
Equipment needed
Camera that allows for manual exposure
Flash (on camera or off camera)
Light Meter (optional)
Step 1. Camera Settings
First thing to do is make sure your camera is set on manual. We need total control over the cameras shutter speed and f-stop to make a proper exposure. Also make sure your shutter speed is at or under 1/250th of a second because most cameras flash sync speed won’t allow for faster shutter speed when shooting with flash. If you are getting a black band across the bottom of the photo this is because your shutter is closing before all the light can be captured and you need to lower your shutter speed.
Step 2. Background
The next thing we are going to do is set our cameras exposure for the background. If you are shooting digital take some test photos until your background is exposed correctly and you have it looking how you want.
If shooting film I would meter the light and underexpose between 1/3 to a full stop under the settings on the light meter.
For my photo I knew I wanted the background full of color from the green plants and trees in the background. To achieve that look I came up with a shutter speed of 1/90th and an f-stop of 9.5.
Step 3. Flash
Our next step is to set the flash so the subject can be properly exposed. If you do not have a light meter and are shooting digital start taking test photos and lower or power up your flash until the subjects exposure is correct.
If you have a light meter simply meter your light to your exposure settings.
Step 4. Take the photo
Make sure your composition is correct and press the shutter button. If you have done everything right you will have a photo where the subject and background are both exposed correctly and will give you a much better photo then one we started off with.
If you enjoyed the post and would like to see more like this please let me know and I would love to see any work of anyone who was inspired to try a shot like this after reading this post.