The technique used in these photos is a little bit of interesting trickery that I’ll hold onto for now. I’ll be doing a video2brain training as well as a webinar for Nik Software in the upcoming months, and I think I’ll show this then. It was one of those experiments gone right.
]]>He called me completely out of the blue yesterday. Said he’d found my card, and just wanted to call and say “hi”. What a kind gentleman!
Click the montage below for a better view…
Richard Don Simms at the USO in DFW airport
Problem: You have a web page designed at 1,000 pixels wide, and just looked at it on a new iPad, and were nearly in tears over how badly your graphics and photos looked on there.
Solution: Photographer Duncan Davidson posted some very interesting findings, and I combined that with my own research and present the results at photojoseph.com/retina
(I also have a post specifically about loading images at an optimal resolution on the new iPad on ApertureExpert: Displaying Your Photography On The New iPad)
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Just another day in the office…
I have been working on a photo book as a test, and will continue to release updated versions as I go.
This is a free download — please check it out and let me know what you think, and keep coming back to check for new updates!
You can download the in-progress iBook from the iBooks page.
Click to access the download page for my free, in-progress, iBook
Frozen Creek @ January 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 100mm ƒ/2.8 Macro @ ISO 1000, ƒ/7.1, 1/100
I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I may start doing a B&W series. Let’s see if I can maintain it, but for now, see the first one above. It’s a close-up of a frozen ripple of water; completely abstract and organic. I created the B&W using Silver Efex Pro II and one of my default presets, which I’ve posted here before but here it is again. Next one, I’ll do something different.
The second shot is just cool… it appears to be a tiny flower trapped in ice, or “frozen in time”. I love the way the water has frozen around it; it’s almost as if the temperature plummeted instantly and froze this splash! I simply adore it.
Frozen in Time @ January 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 100mm ƒ/2.8 Macro @ ISO 1000, ƒ/5.6, 1/80
The spread looks great and the photos printed very well. Neat!
Click on the snapshot below to open the gallery with the original bear photos, if you haven’t seen them yet.
Deer in the first snow of 2012 in Ashland, OR @ Jan 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 70-200mm ƒ/4L IS @ ISO 640, ƒ/4, 1/320
Then a few days before Christmas, we caught a glimpse of a momma and two cubs tearing through the front yard in the late morning. Which is really unusual, as they typically are only around at night.
Then this morning, I spotted them again, down at the creek at the bottom of our property. And they weren’t running away. I had time to grab the long lens and get a few shots through the window!
Black Bear in Ashland, OR — Momma on Watch @ January 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 400mm ƒ/4 @ ISO 640, ƒ/4, 1/80
They were up and down the canyon (it’s a small canyon, my house at the top on one side and a creek at the bottom), but I was shooting through windows and trees. They started to come up our path right to the back patio (!!) but thought better of it and turned around. I caught this shot of them bounding across the creek. The 400mm lens was too long to catch all of them in the frame at once!
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