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Living Movie Poster – Photographed on Red One

June 14th, 2009 No comments

red cameraBy Alexx Henry from alexxhenry.com - As promised, here is our experience with using the Red One Camera, chronicling our voyage beyond the still image. Looking forward to our next project featuring living art portraits. Stay tuned… After the video, take a peek at the links to see the final results.

20 Awesome Traffic Light Trail Pictures (with a few tips)

June 9th, 2009 4 comments

light-trailBy Patrick Arseneau – One my favorite special effects in photography is light trails. More specifically traffic trails. The main key is to set your shutter speed to a long exposure (min 15 seconds). There are 2 good ways to get moving light stream in your picture; 1- capture moving cars while staying still, or 2- stay still in a moving car while capturing outside light. Either way, your camera has to stay really still during the exposure.

Time Lapse Video of the Houston Ship Channel

June 8th, 2009 No comments

houstonshipBy Louis Vest – Assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the “interval timer” mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green’s Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan’s Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of channel across the bay to the pilot station outside the Galveston jetties.

Why does HDR bring out the best/worst in you as a Photographer?

June 5th, 2009 No comments

alabama_hillsThe HDR Conundrum
By RC Conception on www.layersmagazine.comFor the past couple of weeks, there’s been this brew of comments popping up on the Interwebs concerning the topic of HDR. For quite some time now, we’ve been seeing HDR crop up in popularity, and with any rise in a technique, there is almost always an equally rising backlash for it. This year’s HDR was last years “Dave Hill” technique/ Lucis Art phase. Last year’s “Dave Hill” tech / Lucis Art phase was the year before THAT’s “Infrared Photography” craze. The fever has long since died on THAT! (And, for the record.. I happen to -like- Dave Hill’s work.. I make it a mention as how persnickety we can be as a group, and not a critique of his technique).

25 Electrifying Pictures of Lightning Photography

June 4th, 2009 No comments

lightningArticle from www.digitalpicturezone.com - Lightning photography is both one of the most tricky and one of the most frustrating types of photography. You get only one chance for the particular situation – it is not like portrait photography where you can go back in the studio if the photos didn’t come out well. Photographing lightning at night is relatively easy provided you have access to remote areas away from town/city lights. The results can be exciting but they are also partly based upon luck.