Days of Dance

Hey Guys,

Sorry I haven't posted in quite some time. I had some personal things I was dealing with, and wasn't feeling very inspired for a while. But so it goes with these creative outlets I suppose. Anyways, these are some images that I got from a dress rehearsal for one of the Dept of Dance's fall shows.

f10 | ISO 1600 | 70mm | 1 second

f2.8 | ISO 1600 | 105mm | 1/160

f8 | ISO 1600 | 70mm | 0.6 seconds

Halloween school dance.

This dance was on Friday, over the weekend I printed 90 4x6s of my favorite photos and will sell them for $1 each to the kids at my school. It work last year with the Winter Formal, so I figure I'd try to make a little extra cash ;)

Canon 5d mark II
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Canon 580 ex II
1/15th at f/2.8 ISO 400 flash fired.

Octo-man!

This picture makes me laugh. He looks like an octopus.

Canon 1D Mark II

ISO 1600 | 300mm | f2.8 | 1/800

Mt. Tabor soap box derby race! 8/22/09

Canon rebel xti - 70-200 f/4 L USM and Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8

1/1000th f/4 ISO 400, 200mm

1/250th f/2.8 at 17mm ISO 400

70-200mm goodness!

First photo: 200mm 1/200th at f/4 ISO 800

Second photo: 200mm 1/320th at f/4 ISO 400

Third: 159mm 1/200th at f/4 ISO 400

Eastbound and traveling.

Hey

Sorry for not posting lately. I starting redesigning my website and found myself knee deep in actionscript coding and not doing too much else. So suffice to say I had no pictures to post. And I forgot. But do visit. I also decided to start posting to a blog of my own (I suppose I am growing up)

Moving on to greener pastures:

There was an event at a homeless shelter in Tallahassee, and the FSU football team stopped by for a spell.

f3.5 | 1/160 | ISO 1250 | 18mm (wide angle lens distortion, yo!)

They were big.

Nick...

I too got a job doing photos. The deal is I am contracted to Portland Parks & Recreation to photograph the Washington Park Summer Concerts Festival. I've been doing sound (stage hands work, set up tare down, load in, load out) there for the last four years with my dad, even though I'm contracted to the sound company. So this year I'm doing both! I do the sound job, set up and what not, then during the concert I'm covering the event with my lens(es)! It's a sweet deal, and this was a photo during the Portland Festival Symphony (hints the black and white uniform)

In this photo: NP


1/250th f/2.8 41mm ISO 400

Gee

Hello there lads (and lasses)

So my computer has been giving me trouble lately (keyboard and trackpad have been freezing) so I had to take it to the Apple store to get it serviced, but the Apple store is 2 1/2 hours away from me, so I drove 5 hours one day to drop it off and 5 hours two days later to pick it up.  This span fell over my day, hence the reason for the lack of a post, but here I am to save the day!

Moving right along, I shot a wedding with a photographer I know on Saturday, and here are some of what came out.

Nikon d50 18-70mm

18mm | ISO 1600 | f3.5 | 1/40

Nikon d50 18-70mm

38mm | ISO 1600 | f4.2 | 1/100

Nikon d300 70-210 f2.8

210mm | ISO 1250 | f2.8 | 1/100

Added Gaussian Blur to background (which is giving them that glow...still haven't decided if I like that or not) and boosted contrast

Portland Rose Festival 09!

NP and I ventured down to the Rose Festival on Friday night. We had an A-mazing time, taking lots of photos, eating junkie food, meeting new people, getting lost, and having adventures!
Here is a small handful of the photos I took, you can view the rest on my blog. http://timnewmanphotography.blogspot.com/

First shot: tripod mounted, 1/60th at f/5.6 with my 17-50 ISO 100

Second: tripod mounted 1/80th at f/4 ISO 100 w/ the 17-50mm

Third: 2 seconds at f/32 ISO 100 (on a tripod obviously) w/ the 70-200mm

Fourth: 1/800th at f/2.8 ISO 400 at 32mm with the 17-50mm

Fifth: 1/250th at f/4 ISO 200 with the 70-200mm

6th: 1/2500 at f/4 ISO 400 - 70-200mm

G'day

Hello friends

My apologies for being MIA of late.  Summer classes have ramped back up and I started a new job this past week so my mind has been distracted.

Tallahassee recently had a Highland Games and Celtic Festival, chocked full of weird games.

Battle Axe Throwing Competition

f3.8 | ISO 100 | 1/1250 | 25mm

Weight Over Bar (throw a big weight over head over a bar 20 feet up)

f2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/800 | 105mm

Protest

I love the contrast between these two.










Technically this is pt3.
Parts 1,2

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: varying mm's
aperture: f11
shutter: 1/320 sec
ISO: 400


This was part of the Tax Day Tea Parties being held all over the country on April 15.

I'm going to optimistic and say there were about 600 people there, and about 50 of them were photographers. No joke.

Singing in the rain

It rained all day here today.  And I forgot to bring my umbrella to school.  So I got re-wet as I walked to each class.  4 times.

Aside from that, I shot a dress rehearsal for a dance concert tonight, and

 was quite pleased with the resulting chemistry between my camera and the wonderful people on stage.  They just clicked.  I didn't even see that pun coming, so I doubt any of you did.

Nikon d300 Sigma 70-200 f2.8

f2.8

170mm

1/200

ISO 1250

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70 f3.5-4.5 

f18

5" exposure

ISO 2500

Focal Length...started at 70, and then zoomed out to 18 throughout the exposure

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70 f3.5-4.5

f4.5

56mm

1/160

ISO 1600

Bus stops and lollipops

Hello all

I apologize for the late nature of this, things have been rather

 hectic and I forgot.  So it goes.  Anywhom, these are from a recent baseball game I shot.

Picture numero uno

Nikon d300 with Sigma 70-210 f2.8

210mm f 2.8 ISO 320

shutter: 1/5000

I ran down behind the catcher when they were practicing in between innings to get this shot.

Picture dos

Nikon d300 with Sigma 70-210 f2.8

95mm f2.8 ISO 640

shutter: 1/5000

I must've sat staring at the base for 10 minutes before anything exciting happened at it.  Very much worth it, though.

Juicy Juicy Juicy

This is from a basketball game that I shot last night.  FSU vs. UNC.  We lost.  Am I surprised?  The answer to that riddle my friends is no.  Last second buzzer beater, 80-77, in case you were curious.

Nikon d300 with Nikkor 50mm f1.8

50mm  

f1.8

1/640 sec

ISO 500

Reid

Lovers of Loving Love

So...I bought a d300 from B&H last week, and it came in the mail yesterday!  I haven't had time to fully play with it yet, as the LOST season premiere was on last night, so obviously my night was full.  Hopefully by next week I should have some pictures from it.

On another note, I was thinking that it might be useful if we included basic information about the photos; like what lens we used, and basic exposure information.  That way we might be able to better advise on how to fix photos/be able to see how people did what they did.  Feel free to shoot me down on this one if you want.

Both of these photos are from a wedding I shot with a photographer in Tallahassee last November.  

Photo #1

Nikon d50  Quantaray 28-90mm f3.5-5.6 

focal: 28mm  

aperture: f3.5

shutter: 1/320

ISO: 200

Special things done: desaturated all color channels but red 

Photo #2

Nikon d50 Quantaray 70-300mm f4-5.6

focal: 70mm

aperture: f4

shutter: 1/320

ISO: 200

Special things done: Gamma Vignette (amount: 0.66; raduis: 2.00)

Cherry Blossoms

Hello all,

I hope you will all bear with me as blogs are not my forte, and hence I'm mostly winging it here and hoping it looks correct when I hit publish.

I'm in my second year and Florida State, and incidentally am Brian's cousin, which would explain how I came to know him.  Or rather how he came to know me.  Nonetheless, I am studying photography and graphic design.  I shoot freelance for the University's newspaper, and do other stuff when I feel like it.  Sometimes I go dancing, and sometimes I eat tacos.  But that's neither here nor there.

I also got a Rubik's cube for christmas.  I've been playing with it a lot lately.  I beat it twice with the aid of the instructions.  I'm not sure if that counts.

The picture I included is from a football game this past fall, FSU's homecoming game against Boston College.  The Coast Guard did a flyover while the Marching Chiefs and the alumni band danced and tooted their merry horns on the field.

I also have a website if anyone is interested in perusing that, I would love to hear what you think of it.  http://www.reidcompton.com

So, it is a pleasure to informally e-meet all of you, and I look forward to seeing lots of pictures.

Cordially,

Reid