If anyone needs of the following, my brother-in-law, Troy, is looking for new customers.
Troy has worked for a couple of the big HVAC companies in Utah and disliked their dishonesty and unfairness in pricing so much that he started his own business. You really won’t find better prices anywhere.
Taken with the Nikon D40 in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 10, 2009. Manual Exposure Mode, 50mm, 1/100 sec at f/4, ISO 200, Nikon Raw Format converted to Adobe DNG format. Edited in Lightroom 2.2.
After we rented a few nice lenses for the recent wedding we shot, I did a little personal photowalk around the hills above SLC to spend some more time with the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens (freaking awesome lens by the way). I stumbled upon this scene just off of main street (I almost missed it). I was so excited!! How I love expressions of urban culture.
The texture in the wood, smooth lines of the moto, and the fascinating look of the pavement (love the ice-melt) really jump out in my mind. I tweeked the colors slightly (adding vibrance while dropping the overall saturation) to give the photo a little more retro look and kicked up the contrast using the contrast slider and the tone curve. I fixed the vertical lines in photoshop too. I copied some screen clippings of the panels below if anyone cares. Is that useful to anyone?
Please send any questions in the comments. I hope you enjoy this photo and hope you enjoy yourself behind the lens!
Are your photos too dark? Do you have trouble with the blur associated with camera shake or subject movement? Do you want to learn exposure to further control the creative process and break yourself free from the automatic camera modes? If you have an SLR type camera and want to learn more then sign up for the RJSnowPhotography Exposure Workshop. You’ll learn a ton, have amazing fun, and best of all it is free (with the exception of buying your own lunch).
Shannon from Lasting Moments Photography and the Mommy Going Crazy blog will team teach the class with Rob. Shannon is a wedding and family photographer and also a Canon shooter (let’s not hold this against her). She will also be present during the photowalk portion of the workshop to help the other Canon shooters figure out their cameras and Rob will be there to help the Nikon shooters.
This workshop is for people with SLR type cameras that really want to learn the nuts and bolts of photography or just hone their skills.
The workshop will cover the following subjects:
The workshop will be held in Salt Lake City on Saturday February 28th at 11AM. We’ll eat lunch at a restaurant (TBA) and discuss exposure control. Expect this portion of the workshop to take less than an hour. Following lunch we’ll wander the streets of SLC practicing what we learned about exposure. We estimate that the photowalk portion of the workshop will take around an hour and maybe longer if everyone is having fun (but don’t worry, you can leave at any time).
Shannon and Rob will be available to help others figure out their cameras. We believe that this photowalk segment of the workshop will be very valuable to everyone. For those that have exposure figured out, the emphasis will be control and creative use of depth of field.
Similar to our last photowalk, we can share our work in a flickr group that will be created specifically for our workshop. We are probably going to limit participation to about 25 people so sign up quickly by commenting to this post or sending me an email using this form with Exposure Workshop in the Subject field. Hope to hear from you soon!
Since I took this photo with a manual SLR, there are no edits. It was taken on black and white film and then printed on black and white paper. Many people may not know that if you shoot or edit your pictures to be black and white, unless you specify to have them printed on black and white photo paper, they're printed on color paper. When we had ours developed, Inkley's, who we used at the time, accidentally printed ours first on color paper and then correctly printed them on black and white paper. The difference is amazing. When printed on color paper, there is a very noticeable warm tone to them. Not bad, just not black and white. Remember to have your black and white photos developed by a company that prints on the correct paper.
Back to the subject of the photo...Notre Dame. I specifically remember taking this shot. It was my second time in Paris so I was familiar with the city and knew where I wanted to visit and take Rob. Here we were crossing the Seine on our way to visit the famous cathedral. This shot I took is very "postcardy". In fact, I think I may even have a real postcard just like this in color. But I wanted to take the picture anyway because it looked like a postcard. Paris is just one perfect shot after another. We all grow up seeing these images on tv and in books, etc. but to be there in person is incredible. There is such a vibe that is so difficult to express. It's very "old world," cosmopolitan, cliche, vivid, legendary, inspiring, memorable, quaint, and quintessential. I really cannot describe it perfectly. Every good thing people say about it is true. And that's why we'll go back again and again.
We have been a little slow with the blogging lately. Sadly, somehow, annoyingly, some important windows files were corrupted and forced us to reinstall windows. Ugh. I don’t mind doing this once a year or so (I actually recommend it that often) but 3 to 4 times in a year is just freaking annoying!!!!! I’m going to install the new windows 7 beta on a spare laptop and check it out. I’m pretty excited to move on from Vista. I’ve heard good things about windows 7 so I’ll keep my fingers crossed. Well, that’s all for today. I just wanted to give you all an update.
Here is a quick video that we put together for Ryan and Kelli (more on their wedding here). We hope that you all like it! Please let me know if this doesn’t work right as I have never done video before. (Make sure you have the sound on!!!)
Taken with the Nikon D40 Washington City, Utah on October 21, 2008. Manual Exposure Mode, 35mm, 1/60 sec f/6.3, ISO 400, Nikon Raw Format converted to Adobe DNG format. Edited in Lightroom 2.2.
This image was taken just down the street from my previous foto friday post. I don’t have a lot of time to talk about this image so I’ll be very brief. The symmetry and texture of the wheel are just fascinating to me. I hope you really enjoy this photo even though I’m not really going to explain how I did it. I’ve been spending all my time editing photos for a wedding we did recently and our upcoming webpage. More on that to come very shortly. Anyway, sorry for the short post; however, the image has a lot of little details that are worth checking out. Enjoy yourself behind the lens and stay tuned for details of our upcoming workshop on shutter speed, aperture, and depth of field.