Stucking Customs - HDR Stuff

I thought I would also post a link to one of my favorite blogs regarding HDR's. I would have to state that Trey is most likely world renowned or at least I would consider that. But his work is simply put as AWESOME!!! I have been following him for quite some time now and have learned new and inventive ways for creating HDR's.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

Eyes on the Camera

This shot was durning my practice shooting in the previous race, This was the race leader. I think his name was Jason Catching, Well in this shot, he has his eyes on me. Anyways it was a great shot.

Tommy Bednash - Las Vegas (WERA)

Had a great time taking these high speed panning shots. Tommy placed 9th out of about 30 riders. It was a partly cloady day, but this was the first time I made it inside the track to take photo, and what an experiance it was. Only about 15ft away from the track, so filling up the frame was not hard. Played around with the f/stop which ranged from a 5.4 to 13. Wanted some more blure in the tires when adjusting to the higher f/stop.
1/1000s
f/9.0
ISO: 400

1/2000s
f/5.3
ISO: 400

Valley of Fire

Perspective shot: Leaned up close to this rock to capture a DOF shot. Played around alittle more in Adobe Lightroom with filters.



ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 11.0
Focal Length: 32mm
Flash Used: No

ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 11.0
Focal Length: No
I like this BW shot. Intresting contrast.
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 300mm
Flash Used: No

Arch Rock

Valley of Fire
Arch Rock.

Went down to the Valley of Fire hoping to get the desert in bloom. Well we were about a week early. Bummer. Oh well still captured some nice photos. Wish there was some cloads in the sky.

ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: No


ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 4.5
Focal Length: 70mm
Flash Used: No

Tidle Rush

Almost got wet on this one too. Luckily it just barley missed.

ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/400 sec Aperture: 4.0 Focal Length: 18mm Flash Used: No

More Waves

Waves

I really wanted to get some nice wave shots as they were hitting the cliffs and creating some really nice spays. In this one, if you look at the lower left you will see that there is a wave heading towards my left side. WELL I was not quite expecting this to actually hit me so I was more focused on getting the bird in the shot. WELL needless to say that wave snuck right up on me. Oh well, whatever it takes to get the shot.

ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/640 sec Aperture: 4.2 Focal Length: 30mm Flash Used: No
Love stop motion shot.
ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/640 sec Aperture: 5.6 Focal Length: 52mm Flash Used: No
ISO: 200Exposure: 1/640 sec Aperture: 4.0Focal Length: 19mm Flash Used: No
Play around with some filters in Adobe Lightroom. Got some nice effects with these.

Sea Cliffs

These little tide pools were intresting to shoot. I was hoping to get more reflections off the pool of water, but not as I was hoping for. Oh well, still some nice shots.

ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/200 sec Aperture: 7.1 Focal Length: 70mm Flash Used: Yes

Spring Dress Con't

Tracing the heart. There was a slight breeze that day which made for some nice suddle movements.
ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/200 sec Aperture: 5.0 Focal Length: 18mm Flash Used: Yes
The kiss. We had to do a couple attempts on this one. She kept wanting to look at me and was being silly, which is not nessary a bad thing, just not what I was looking for.

ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/800 sec Aperture: 5.6 Focal Length: 34mm Flash Used: No
Updside Down.
ISO: 200Exposure: 1/200 secAperture: 6.3Focal Length: 20mmFlash Used: Yes
The Spray. Both were trying to get the camera man wet. Got the spray!
ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/200 sec Aperture: 7.1 Focal Length: 34mm Flash Used: Yes

Spring Dress

What a beautiful day for this shoot. Mommy wanted to get some new photos of Trinity in her Easter Dress. Could have not pick a better spot than Sunset Cliffs. The colors around really enhanced the photo shoot. Even the green algae brought out the yellow in her dress. Shot all of these in manual mode, with an external flash so to get her face. This helps tremendously when there is a large light source behind (Sun). Have to be careful not to over expose the shot. When you are using flash, the max shutter speed is set at 200, which can cause problems with high speed shots and exposure. What I have learned to do is to adjust the f/stop to compensate.




Trinity was so worried that the crab would pinch her that it took Mommy to convince her that it would just tickle. Once that was okay with her then she agreed.

I love the way the green and yellow compliment in this photo.

Daddy's little girl

I love taking photos of my daughter. She can give some of the greatest poses when she is playing

f/5.6
1/200
ISO; 400
300mm

1/160s

f/5.0

ISO 400

105mm

Looking forward to doing some spring photos. My daughter will be showing off her new Easter dress in the next week or so. Plan on taking her down to either Sunset Cliffs or down by Hotel Del and taking some candid shoots....

On another note, feel free to make any comments that you would like.....

Engagements

Some engagement photos of close friends. She was so happy with these that she asked myself and my buddy Joe to take her wedding photo. Those also came out really nice. All of these were taken at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego.

Family Portriats - Friends

Had some friends that wanted to have Holiday photos done for their Holiday Cards. It was a great shoot. These are just a couple of shoots.

ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.3
Focal Length: 45mm
Flash Used: Yes
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 52mm
Flash Used: Yes

Gators

Another shot of my buddy Tommy taken at Fontana Raceway in California. I took one NEF and saved it four different times with different exposures. Then combined them using DynamicPhoto program. Played around with the setting in tone mapping and got this result.

I like this shot, for a telephoto lens, it came out pretty good.
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 240mm

Taken at the San Diego Zoo heading towards Polar Bear Plunge.

Fonatana

Got the privillage of taking more high speed shoots. Most of these were taken at ISO 200, F/S 9-11 and about 320 to 500 Shutter Speed.


I think this one is my favorite. Way to go Tommy Bednash!