Lone Bird on Rock at Ft. Bragg, by Suprada on Flickr
Lone Bird on Rock at Ft. Bragg, CA.
A seagull alighted on this rock for a short while before moving on in search of food. Photograph taken at dawn, Ft. Bragg, Mendocino County, CA.
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon Rebel XT
Exposure: 1/180sec at f/8.0
Focal Length: 22mm
ISO: 100
WB: Daylight
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Date: Mar 8, 2009
GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: 39.555847, Longitude:-123.765825
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Elephant Rock at Ft. Bragg - 2, by Suprada on Flickr
Elephant Rock, Ft. Bragg, CA.
Another version of the Elephant Rock at Ft.Bragg, Mendocino County, California. A companion photo to this photo.
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon Rebel XT
Exposure: 1/180sec at f/8.0
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO: 100
WB: Daylight
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Date: Mar 8, 2009
GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: 39.555847, Longitude:-123.765825
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Over the weekend, I attended the iHDR seminar taught by Jay and Varina Patel here in the Bay Area. I went in expecting to be shown this new technique - but what I learnt was so much more.
The first day, they covered some so called “basics” - composition, filters, chasing the light, histograms. Things which everyone knows all about, right? Wrong - Its amazing how much I learnt. For instance, the concept of “Chasing the Light” opened my eyes on how to maximize the probability of good photographs - especially for me, a weekend warrior. Then there was the session about hyper focal distance, very patiently and clearly explained by Jay and Varina. They also talked about researching, and composition, and how to get it right in the camera. Then we moved gradually to Photoshop - layers and masks.
At the end of the first day, I had already learnt my money’s worth. On day 1, when we started using photoshop, iHDR seemed like a long way away. At the end of Day 2, it seemed very easy, do-able and familiar - thanks to the excellent teaching which led us gradually step by step through the whole process.
On the whole, I really enjoyed the seminar and would highly recommend it.
Jay’s website - www.jaypatelphotography.com
Varina’s website - www.photographybyvarina.com
Workshops and classes - http://www.photographybyvarina.com/workshops.html
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I am very happy to release my first ever e-book: Gogol. This is an ebook of photographs of my buddy. You can download it by right-clicking the below thumbnail and selecting “Save File as” or “Save link as”. You can also do so in the freebies section of my website.
Be warned, it is a large file (about 8MB). It is in pdf format and you will need to install the free Adobe reader to view it. You can download the Adobe Reader from here - http://get.adobe.com/reader/.
I was supposed to make this ebook as a part of SOFOBOMO 2009. However I could not keep up the rules: 30 day deadline (this book took 40 days) and 35 photos (It has 27 photos). Alas, I’m a sofobomo failure. However, I intend to participate next year, meet the deadline and come up with better work.
I will talk more about this book, the experience, what I learnt and some tutorials in the next few blog posts next week.
Meanwhile, please share this book with friends and family as you see fit. It would be absolutely awesome if you would leave some comments, critiques, suggestions for improvement on this book.
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Elephant Rock at Ft. Bragg - 1, by Suprada on Flickr
Elephant Rock, Ft. Bragg, CA.
We visited Ft.Bragg, up in the Mendocino County, California back in March. We had rented a vacation home (very nice!) with its own private beach access (very very nice!). At dawn, I was out on the beach photographing this rock formation called “Elephant Rock”.
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon Rebel XT
Exposure: 1/60sec at f/8.0
Focal Length: 19mm
ISO: 100
WB: Daylight
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Date: Mar 1, 2009
GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: 39.555847, Longitude:-123.765825
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June 8 is almost here…and what do I have? I’m hoping I can somehow manage to finish my 35 photos. Before I started, I had this vision of how at least every other day, I would go around photographing my subject…Reality: I work in small creative spurts - meaning I have photos from all of 4 sessions! I think I am close to my target of 25 photos- have about 22 so far…
Now, it is time to start looking at other participants and figure out this whole book design thing.
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