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Haunted House #1

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Kitchen of Haunted House

One of the days of the Freeman-Gallant workshop, we visited a nearby abandoned home. Apparently, the owners of this house just did not care that the house is decaying and close to falling down. This is the kitchen of the home. I did not feel inspired by the house so decided to try infrared. I like the glow from the ‘window’. There was no glass left in the windows.

Panning Poppies

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Panning Poppies

One of the techniques that I learned from the Patterson-Gallant workshop was panning. You want to start with an exposure timeof 1/4 to 1/2 seconds usually with a fairly large depth of field like f/22. Going with a longer exposure time results in mush. Make sure that you are correctly focused before you start. Trip the shutter and pan the camera. In general you want to pan with your subject. For example, pan up and down for tree trunks. In this case, I was shooting a bed of unopened oriental poppy blossoms. I thought that I panned along an arch shape but it really looks like I panned from upper-right to lower-left.

Morning Light on Pond

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Morning Light on Pond

This image was taken during the Sunrise shoot on the first day of the Freeman-Gallant workshop. The sunrise shoot was optional and we needed to be ready to leave by 5:30 am promptly. For me, that was really 1:30 am California time. To my surprise, I was awake and ready to go. In fact, I felt very alert. Well…

I hurried to water edge after we arrived at the pond. I loved the waterlily pads. I took maybe a dozen shots before I realized that I had forgotten to insert a compact flash card. I would like to say that I had better shots before this one but probably not.

Ferns on Parade

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Ferns on Parade

This was an image taken during an exercise in Freeman Patterson’s gardens. We were each given a spot in the garden and not allowed to move until we had taken ‘good’ 10 images. This was later in my 10 and the best of the bunch.

Here are my notes from the image review by Freeman Patterson. The reviews always worked from composition to depth of field to exposure (ie CDE).

Review: The composition is two rectangles of basically equal size. There is a green rectangle on the bottom and dark rectangle on top. The composition is not static because of it is broken up by the line of in focus fern heads. The magenta floating through the top rectangle adds a touch of magic. The depth of field uses selective focus to simplify the compsootion. The exposure is good.

Weird Windshield

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Weird Windshield

I am back from a fabulous week spent in Canada attending Freeman Patterson’s and Andre Gallant’s photo workshop. I had a marvelous time and a lot of new things to share. This image was my ‘weirdest’ one. After some polling, I decided to submit it for the daily review. Both, Freeman and Andre, immediately thought it was too busy and then realized that it worked. Neither could analyze the image (which I will share with future posts). At the end of the workshop, they make a poster and book containing one image from each attendee. I gave Andre the choice of 10 images and this is the one that was selected.

Filoli #15

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Tulip Explosion

I am very excited to be finally attending my photo workshop with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant. I will be gone all week and posting due to the magic of Typepad’s future posting feature.

I am still digging into the archives. During my first visit to Filoli, there were literally thousands of blooming tulips.