Dec 4, 2010

Oct 16, 2010

Sep 29, 2010

Scenes from the Swans show

Sep 6, 2010

Sep 4, 2010

Jul 15, 2010

May 25, 2010

Apr 24, 2010

Here's pretty much how last night's shoot went:


Driving around DC for two hours in the rain, shooting out your car window at traffic stops, ain't as glamorous as it sounds.

Apr 17, 2010

Apr 10, 2010

So, I had the bright idea that I wanted to shoot out in the woods, where there was absolutely no light pollution around. I would get some tripod-mounted long exposure shots, some camera-mounted flash shots, and some tripod-mounted shots with the handheld flash and the colored gels. So Leanne and I drove out to Reston, to the woods I used to tromp around in all the time as a boy and knew like the back of my hand, which was good because the absolute lack of artificial light made for a very Blair Witchy experience.


Two things I didn't take into account:
- There was NO light, artificial or otherwise, which meant even 30-second non-flash-assisted exposures resulted in a black rectangle.
- My camera's auto-focus doesn't work when it can't see anything to focus on (duh!)


Basically, I was stuck shooting blind with the camera-mounted flash, manually focusing on things I couldn't see (next time we'll bring a much more powerful maglite).

Feb 27, 2010

Feb 6, 2010

A couple brief shots outside the snowbound cocoon...

Jan 16, 2010

Experimenting with motion blur...










...and soft focus.