This is the first image in what would be a ongoing theme for my holiday cards. It is evident by the obvious layout and title that I am a huge fan of Norman Rockewell’s paintings. I tried to capture the same feeling of his paintings in this image. Little did I know at the time this would set the standard for many years of creative Christmas Card photographs.
With the holidays upon us and homes and streets extra illuminated for the season, now is a great time to demonstrate a feature on your camera called Slow Sync Flash. This is a incredibly easy feature to enable and will render significantly better results in your photographs. Take a quick look at the video below and then scroll down for a side-by-side recap.
Light Painting is a technique that I enjoy applying to still life images. I use a small, single LED pen light. One mistake folks make is using a flashlight with a beam that projects too broad of a light pattern. For example, the small LED light on your cel phone, though it looks like nothing…
I use several Nikon SB-900 and SB-700 strobes for my photography work. Both these units use four AA batteries and the batteries drain like crazy. I was using your typically brand-named batteries for a while… and, well… they sucked. They wouldn’t hold a charge over time and they would drain rapidly when in use. I…
Roger Williams Park is comprised of a zoo and open park grounds. I’m not much into shooting zoo animals, but the park grounds are quite large. I think the best thing about this location is there are so many different visual subjects to photograph in a reasonably sized area. Some subjects to check out: a historic…
This place is a hidden gem in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The falls are small but vigorous in their movements and they travel over many layers of stone. Hence the name: Stepping Stone Falls. I spent close to two hours shooting just the falls. Due to the natural terrain along the sides of the falls,…
Here’s a small series of images I took in western Massachusetts around the Berkshires. I had just purchased a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens and was using it almost exclusively on this trip. All these images are HDR processed using HDR EFEX PRO from DxO (formally from Google/Nik).
