The lighting was a balance of long exposures to capture the ambient light (as long as five seconds), and usually a single strobe (although for a few shots I used a second strobe for fill). The main light was shot through a 32” diffusion panel hovering just above the food for a nice, soft light.
Taroko Pan-Pacific Bistro Restaurant Shoot
Of course not every photo was published in the article, so here’s a larger collection of images to enjoy [open photo gallery].
And if you haven’t read the article itself yet, you can check that out here!
Read the Hong Kong story in The Daily
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.
