Bacon Lettuce Photo

by Joe

Technically the shot is very simple; it’s taken with a Canon EOS 40d and a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro.
No flash was used: light enters from the door you can see reflected in the left side of the sphere.
These are specs:
shutter: 1/40s
aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 800
I used an high ISO setting in order to shot with a decent shutter speed to avoid motion blur.

There’s nothing that inspired me the shot, even if there is a famous Escher’s work with the same subject (a sphere in the hand). I think that every photographer, with a reflecting sphere in the hand, think about taking
a self portrait.
The particularity of my shot is the murder.
Well… I’m not new of this kind of “crazy” photos
It’s simple: sometimes I need to break with tradition
Ah: yes, I survived!

P.S. the sphere is a boading ball

Thank you Andrea for sharing your work with us. What caught my eye was the simple fact that your shot was not traditional. Check our some other shots Andrea took.

Some thing that was hard for me when taking photos was adjusting my ISO so that my shots weren’t blurred. I just didn’t want any grain in my images. I wanted them to be perfect, however, they would often times come out blurry because I didn’t have a fast enough shutter speed. So I traded blurry photos instead of clear photos with some grain. So learn from my mistake, capture the shot, even if it means that it is going to be a little grainy. Grainy photos are not the end of the world.

Phew, went on a little rant their didn’t I?

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by Joe

Technically the shot is very simple; it’s taken with a Canon EOS 40d and a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro.
No flash was used: light enters from the door you can see reflected in the left side of the sphere.
These are specs:
shutter: 1/40s
aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 800
I used an high ISO setting in order to shot with a decent shutter speed to avoid motion blur.

There’s nothing that inspired me the shot, even if there is a famous Escher’s work with the same subject (a sphere in the hand). I think that every photographer, with a reflecting sphere in the hand, think about taking
a self portrait.
The particularity of my shot is the murder.
Well… I’m not new of this kind of “crazy” photos
It’s simple: sometimes I need to break with tradition
Ah: yes, I survived!

P.S. the sphere is a boading ball

Thank you Andrea for sharing your work with us. What caught my eye was the simple fact that your shot was not traditional. Check our some other shots Andrea took.

Some thing that was hard for me when taking photos was adjusting my ISO so that my shots weren’t blurred. I just didn’t want any grain in my images. I wanted them to be perfect, however, they would often times come out blurry because I didn’t have a fast enough shutter speed. So I traded blurry photos instead of clear photos with some grain. So learn from my mistake, capture the shot, even if it means that it is going to be a little grainy. Grainy photos are not the end of the world.

Phew, went on a little rant their didn’t I?

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by Joe

I think what made me take this photo, was the influence of having seen so many inside shots of old passenger trains, and old busses. Stepping inside this vintage car, my camera automatically lifted for the shot. I did have a vision of using HDR, but I was too lazy to set for multiple images. Since I was shooting in RAW format, I knew I could produce a descent HDR anyway; at least in the style that I enjoy creating.
The image was processed with Photomatix single RAW HDR conversion, with somewhat exaggerated settings. Then processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3, where Neatimage was used to reduce noise, and a texture layer was added to enhance the feel of depth and color.

Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF 24-70mm 1:2.8 USM lens
1/64s
f2.8
ISO 400

Allen has definitely shown how someone can use HDR’s to make photos look like paintings or masterpiece works of art. Here’s another image of his that caught my eye.

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by Brian

During the recent Chinatown New Year’s celebration in downtown Honolulu I came across a temple with burning incense and a statue.

The vibrant colors of the incense in contrast with the ashes made a great metaphor and the textures present throughout drew my attention. Taken with a Canon 40D, Canon EX-580 speedight, and a Canon 17-40 f/4L at 40mm, f4.0, and 1/250th of a sec.

Here is a promotional video from this year’s City and Council of Honolulu’s Month in Chinatown:

by Brian

We would like to welcome Brian Dote from Dote Photography as our guest blogger.  Brian will share one of his amazing photos every Thursday and he would love to hear your feedback.

Photo of a water lily taken at Lyon Arboretum in Manoa valley. There was a beautiful fish pond with lots of lilys.

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The photo of the water lily was shot at 1/200 sec at f/4.0, 145mm at ISO 100 using my Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens mounted on a Canon 40D.