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One of the photos from last Saturday's Wrestling Tournament, There were four big mats that filled the entire basketball court, four matches at the same time.
It was my second time to shoot wrestling, the first one was a month ago when I shot a two hour match. Last Saturday was a grueling 6 hours 10-Way Tournament that started at exactly 9am and ended at 3pm. Athletes from Ridgeview, Middleburg, Fleming Island, Atlantic Coast, Nease, St. Augustine, Florida School for Deaf and Blind, Eastside High (Gainesville), Bucholz (Gainesville) and Orange Park competed in the tournament with Fleming Island ending on Top position. Being able to shoot the tournament was a great learning experience for me, and I'm looking forward to shooting more wrestling matches if time allows.
Todays #Macro Monday Sub Theme is Dreamy, like the usual, I dug through my archives and I found the photo. It was ok and perfect for today's theme, but I wanted to add a little more lens effect. Topaz Labs has the right tool for [...]
Todays #Macro Monday Sub Theme is Dreamy, like the usual, I dug through my archives and I found the photo. It was ok and perfect for today's theme, but I wanted to add a little more lens effect. Topaz Labs has the right tool for the job, the Topaz Lens Effects. Lens Effects is one the many easy to use photoshop plugins that Topaz Labs offers.
Infrared Photo of The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC
For this IR photo I use an old Sony DSC-V3 point and shoot camera, night shot enabled and then I use a IR Filter and a ND Filter. Here’s the setup http://goo.gl/Q8JVS, this is the older sony camera that I also used http://goo.gl/ZpuxQ, more info:http://goo.gl/ud0df
There are many ways to do a long exposure during daytime and one of that is to use a smaller aperture (Large F number).
Kandula the 11 yr old Asian Elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo
This photo of Kandula was taken at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. This was shot handheld using the Non IS Canon EF 400mm F/5.6L USM at 1/400, F/5.6 with an ISO of 400 and a Canon EOS 60D. In this photo I waited for Kandula to get closer so I can get a tight shot because I wanted remove the clutter and some distractions on the background, and to get a sharp image, I bump up the ISO to 400, and use shutter priority. My goal is to use a fast enough shutter speed like a minimum 1/400 to avoid blurring photograph. With a higher ISO I can use a fast shutter speed and not worry about anything else.
Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush is a really powerful tool. With it, you can make local adjustments to your photos with having to touch the entire photograph. This is one of my most used feature in Lightroom, let's take the photo above as an example. I used the adjustment brush to boost the exposure, brightness, shadow and details of the frog without touching the other parts of the photo. See the before and after image below:
Sometimes it is nice to remove colors in a photograph. Like the photo above, I converted it to a black and white photo with a vintage feel using lightroom. Taking colors out can sometimes add drama and creativity to your photo. I created a Lightroom 4 preset based on the photo above and you can download it here for free. Just tweak it a little bit to match your tastes and the mood of your photo .
Yesterday I got my Olympus PEN E-PL1 and boy, I can't wait to try it. I only got the body and plan to use it with my current EF Lenses and FD Lenses. Here it is sporting a Canon EF 50mm F/1.4 USM. Using it was a big difference compare to DSLR, first off the menu and navigation of the E-PL1 is somewhat confusing, second, I'm missing the viewfinder, (maybe I need to get one) and third, since I'm using a EF to Micro 4/3 lens adapter to use the 50mm, autofocus isn't possible and my aperture cannot be adjusted. But despite it's limitation, I can say that I like the quality of images and it is really fun to use.
This is such a great tool. Thanks to Adobe, now I can do some small adjustments inside Lightroom without having to open the image in Photoshop. Watch how Matt Kloskowski enhance the sample photo.
Rain Drops by Ness Flores is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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