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Straight from the Camera RAW

jason — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:13:18 +0000

Love this shot. Shot at 90 degrees from the shining sun the polarizer had its greatest affect on the blue sky. The sun was obviously from the left and the not so obvious sb-900 (doubly diffused) from the right, just out of the frame to fill in the shadows. I experimented with different f-stops but [...]

August 2010 Alaska Photo Workshop: Maclaren River Edition Day Two

jason — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0000

Wow morning came early! The alarm went off at 3:56am and I didn’t want to move. But, alas, photographs wouldn’t wait. A few minutes and a Starbucks Vanilla Frappachino later the rest of the gang met us in the van to head out to the bluff at the other end of the valley. Was it [...]

August 2010 Alaska Photo Workshop: Maclaren River Edition

jason — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:00:44 +0000

Wow!!!! What a blast we had this weekend!! Can you tell we had a good time? We had some great participants who asked TONS of great questions and shot some marvelous photographs. We started out at this great field in Delta Junction taking photographs of hay bails and whatever else caught our eye. We eventually [...]

denali from a distance

jason — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:44:36 +0000

denali is in the background (as is mt. foraker). i decided to put something in the forground to “spice” things up a bit. i used the wireless commander mode on the d90 to trigger the gelled sb-900. i had tried lighting the tundra weed from the left side but it didn’t do the scene justice. [...]

more from lake minchumina

jason — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:44 +0000

here’s a shot of mt. foraker and dad (and juliet) at lake minchumina and now all of us including cujo! this shot had the sb-900 and sb-600 on camera left to give some fill light. the sun was setting to the right and was extremely hard. I wanted a more soft affect but didn’t have [...]

clover

jason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:41:07 +0000

i just love this top down view of this clover… shot at 1/50 at f4 with the circular polarizer.

more on backgrounds

jason — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:38:06 +0000

to help isolate your subject from your background (regardless of color) you can use a maximum aperature, like say, 1.8, 2.8, 3.5, etc, etc. here are two such examples. as you can see, in the first images of each example the background isn’t quite as blurred. in the second images though the background is more [...]

background colors

jason — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:00:12 +0000

in photography there are certain colors that project a more natural and soothing looking background. green is just such a color. if you have the ability to choose green as your background for say a flower, bird, bug, or whatever it is your shooting in nature, it will certainly help.

shot my first model

jason — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:51:49 +0000

model a that is. was over at my dad’s place a couple of months ago and a friend and his family stopped by in their model a. he graciously allowed me to photograph the old gal. what a great looking car!

the new pup

jason — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:47:05 +0000

dad bought a new puppy a month or so ago. she’s really cute and has quite the personality. had the sb-900 on for this shot. i was experimenting with the warming gel.