Cool Pet Photography by Andrew Pinkham

Found this photographer who is doing cool pet photography. Love to try something like this...
Check out his site.
http://www.andrewpinkham.com/

Using Adobe LightRoom

Well I spent a few days on the Eastern Shore photographing during the 2011 Delmarva Bike Week.  I had an assignment for Hot Bike magazine and also photographed two additional bikes.  I did some general coverage of the event including some of the music; found a great group Lower Case Blues, (more on that later).  I also went to see Tyler and Thrill Kill Jill perform their Lucky DareDevil Thrillshow.

Anyway I came home with a bunch of images. I took this opportunity to process my photos in LightRoom which I am still exploring.  There are presets for effects that ship with the application and there are more available online.  This is a great resource to get started:  ProPhoto Top 10 List   I downloaded some from the Adobe ADOBE Exchange.  Some are free and some you have to purchase.  I've only tried the free stuff so far.

Here are some examples; 

Touch of Blue preset

Original

Touch of Blue preset

Killer Vintage Look preset

You may need to do a little tweaking to your photos after the preset is applied but it's  a great place to start and they have been lots of fun to play around with.  You could get the same effects without the presets but using them as a starting point is much quicker and may give you some ideas to try that you might not otherwise think of.

Portraits with new lens

Had a great time at recent portrait session with Jr. drag racer Brittany.  Shooting with my new 70-200mm f2.8 Nikon lens.  Love it!  So clear, great color and quick focus.  Only objection... it is HEAVY!  Short shoots like this no problem but it's a lot to lug around all day.  Worth it for the quality though.  Everything was shot with one bare flash on an overcast day. 

I have tweaked these in Lightroom but haven't done any work in Photoshop yet.  The finals will need some clean up but I really like working in Lightroom; much better work flow especially for large projects. 

David Perry Hot Rod Photographer

I will be shooting a motorcycle for Hot Bike magazine during Delmarva Bike week.

Looking for posing ideas and inspiration I came across this photographer David Perry.
Drool.  Love his stuff.  Check him out here: David Perry

Rumblers Car Show

Went to Brooklyn for the first time on Aug 20th for the Rumblers 11th Annual Custom Kills & Hotrod Thrills show.  It was under the Queens Expressway and it was huge.  Very cool; lots of great cars, vendors and strange people.  Loved it!  The lighting was a challenge with dark under the bridge and full sun outside creating a backlighting situation.  Here is how I handled that:  I shot tight framed shots and tried to shoot along the expressway to minimize the amount of background in the shot.  I also tried using the back lighting, sometimes with a flash fill to get an effect.  Here are a couple of shots:

The back lighting problem.

Using back lighting

Tight Crop

Tight crop

Shooting along the length of the expressway.

Shooting along the length of the expressway.

Using back lighting

Tight crop

See more at: Studio 413

I also shot a model meet-up at this with pin-up girls!  Fun! 
I'll post something about that a little later.

Portrait shoot

Photographing a Junior Dragster Driver today at the track.  Will be taking senior pictures with her dragster and without.  Have some ideas about what I want to do.  Will be using my new 70-20mm f2.8 lens!  Should be fun. 

Brittany