Random walks always seem to generate some of my favorite images. Today I decided to take a little jaunt around Downtown Sioux Falls and look for some spots for future portraits. In the process of dodging raindrops, and construction cones this caught my eye. Three young children were putting the finishing touches on this, and I could not resist sneaking a couple shots.
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My random life, infront of the lens.
dad went too far.
Playing with some toys, with my son. That is how this started. About 10 mins into playing I go this idea. With a very sour look on my son's face, the shot was set up.
so this was created using my 70-200 F2.8 and two speedlites. One on the ground behind and to the right of the ring, with a plastic bounce diffuser. The second on a tripod, with a 43" shoot through umbrella in front and to the right, pointing down at about a 45 degree angle. . Both speedlites were set to 1/64th power and 35mm zoom. Shutter speed was 1/100th at 70mm F8.0. Hand held as close to the floor as i could get.
My son has since lost all interest in letting me play with his toys...
Jon
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this week my son was testing for his brown belt in taekwondo. he managed to break a board with his hand!! this shot was during the warm up. crappy lighting and sitting way too far away, but ill take it. i need some new lenses i think...
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this is my first attempt at the Brenizer method. this method consists of stitching multiple photos together to achieve a focal length and aperture that can not be matched by most lenses.
this photo of my son is comprised of 70 photos all shot with my 50mm f1.8 on a canon 50D. i used photoshop to stitch them together and crop the image down. this is about 55 photos worth cropped and re-sized.
due to the cropped sensor i am using an effective focal length of 80mm at f1.8 each image was re sized to 1500x1000 before stitching. after i finishes the image is 6674x4333 with and effective focal length of 18.125mm at f.41. that is super impressive depth of field, and due to all the images being hi res the final image has TONS of detail.
you can google the Brenizer method to see plenty of tutorials, and the calculator i used to figure the effective focal length and aperture. i have a feeling i will be using this method more in the future for some of my still life photography. it takes some extra time, but the finished product is well worth it.
jon
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this week i did some shots of my son doing some "light painting". i have a few friends that do Poi, and my son has always loved watching them spin fire, and LED lights. a few months ago i found this toy at a local store, and purchased it for my son. after it being neglected for a while we took it out the other night and snapped a few pictures. i will be posting some of the other pics from that night in a few days. the big boys were plating with fire.
the best part of the whole night was the adults giving my son high 5s and genuinely being stoked on my son spinning. the smile on my sons face was priceless. I'm sure there will be some new LED toys coming soon.
Jon
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nothing special this week, just a shot of my son and one of his friends at the park. shot with a vintage 70-210 f3.5 at 210mm
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So, my son won for best idea for this week. This is what he wanted a picture of.... My roomate might kill me, sorry Jeff.