Photo of the Week 8/24/09

Having arrived and somewhat settled into my new home on Long Island, I thought it would be fitting to showcase an image from my new area this week. I came across this abandoned pier on Oyster Bay in the early afternoon yesterday and captured the image above with my 14-24mm f2.8 wide angle lens at a 14mm focal length. Actually 7 images one stop apart which have been merged into the HDR image above using Photomatix. For anyone who would like more technical detail: ISO 100, f8, and a shutter speed of 1/180 for the middle of the 7 images.

Photo of the Week 8/17/09

I had a very busy week moving and did not shoot much at all so I decided to do a little work on an older image I captured on a trip to Las Vegas this past summer. In particular, I cropped this one so that the lines come from the corners with the center of the perfectly round stained glass ceiling off center. Gives a different perspective to what was originally a very straight on shot.

Photo of the Week 8/10/09

I have decided to start adding a Photo of the Week on here each week. These images will come from assignments or personal work and I will try to select images that are new or have not been widely seen before and that are important to me.

The above image is a candid shot taken with my Nikon D700 and Nikor 70-200 f2.8 lens at a recent wedding in San Diego I attended as a groomsman. To avoid being noticed and to preserve to unusual natural light from the fountain I used an ISO of 2000. This let me shoot at 1/125th of a second to avoid camera shake given the 86mm focal length I was at. Technical details aside I like the unusual lighting and the interaction of the two wedding guests who had only met the night before.