Alien Bee

Just got an alien Bee Strobe.  How cool. I can make it fire with another flash, it has a sensor, tethered with a wire or using my Radio Poppers.  Here's a picture just using the raw light and a fill card.

OK a little harsh but a start. Hmmm, modifiers next.

Flash Bus Tour with David Hobby and Joe McNally

I just attended the Philadelphia workshop with these guys and well... WOW is the first thing that comes to mind. The show, and I do mean show, went from 10 am until 5:30 pm and and it seemed like ten minutes.  They were both really fun and interesting to listen to and boy do they know light. All of their explanations were step-by-step and really clear. If you have a chance to see them I highly recommend it.  Watch this space for some new flash photos.

Fun Film

I'm interested in type and follow some typ blogs. Came across this interesting use of type..

Bicycle Film Festival

Sunrise January 11, 2011

What a spectacular sunrise this morning. Photographed  1/125 at f/3.2 with a 50 mm lens. White balanced for Fluorescent light. And it doesn't come close to capturing the beauty of the actual scene. I also shot it with a Tungsten, Auto, Sunlight and Shade White balance but the Fluorescent captured the best detail in the red clouds.

Sunrise in Mohnton January 11, 2011 6:12 am

White Balance Test

Nice sunrise this morning so I went out on my deck and did a little test. I created four versions of the the view (looking East) from my deck. For each view I changed the white balance. Here are the results.

Auto

Fluorescent

Incandescent

Sunlight

Farmscape Project

Our arable agricultural land may be one of this countries last most valuable natural resources. I began photographing farms with the idea of contributing a percent of my photo sales to 

farmland preservation.

Here are a few of the images I have taken. There are several different syles that I am developing. This group uses a painterly effect that I create using multiple filters. I will post some other photographic styles in the near future.

Cocalico, PA area

Fleetwood, PA area

Five Points, PA

Five Points, PA

Picture of Pain

This is an MRI image. 

That red circle is where my disk is bulging and pressing on the nerve.

It hurts. I don't like it.