"Free Crap"

I was coming back from the store the other day, and saw this box that said (says) "Free Crap" and just had to get a photo. :) My dad and I were walking our new dog that same day and thought we should put some of his exes wast in the box, just for laughs :)

ISO 100, 1/100th at f/4 - lens: 70-200mm f/4 L USM at 84mm
Flash fired.

And this is just a bonus photo, so you can all see how handsome my new buddy is lol :P

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Oh crap! I forgot it was my day to post. Please bare with me while I try to find something on my hard drive to post. :)

I totally forgot, we got a new dog last week and that's been eating up our time.

Asphalt

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: 105mm
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/80 sec
ISO: 200
time: 6/5/09, 3:11:17 PM

NY, NY

50mm | f1.8 | ISO 500 | 1/250

summer sunset

18mm
f/8
1/50 sec
ISO 400
Darkened and contrasted with curves and used the unsharp mask
then i used the blur tool to even out the clouds and make them look smoother because they seemed kind of grainy to me...

Creek Rocks

18mm

1/50 sec

ISO 800

f/6.3

Photoshop: Vignette, contrast

Moriah (the fashion model)

Off camera light: canon 580 ex II, shot through umbrella. Fired with cactus V2s

Lens: canon 70-200mm f/4 L USM


P.S My family got a new dog today! We've been looking for one for over a year. This ones great! He doesn't have a name yet. Any suggestions?

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

Good Monsters

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: 28mm
aperture: f3.5
shutter: 1/30 sec
ISO: 100
time: 5/19/09, 5:49:01 PM

hear me roar

I got this little guy when my school went to DC last April. We stopped at the National Cathedral, which was amazing, and I bought my own gargoyle :] I think its supposed to be a chimera, then i realized it doesnt have the goat head or the snake tail so I'll have to find the tag and check xD

darkened/contrasted in gimp with curves, and used the unsharp mask

I did Brian's tag and posted it on my blog if you didn't see it,

Self Portrait

See my amazing one handed self portrait skillz? :)

OK, so I waited 40 minutes to take my portrait.  I wanted to get a cool(er) background.  In this case, a bus.

My favorite photographer in the field I intend to enter: Nate Kaiser of the Image is Found.

Wedding and portraits.

Favorite film photographer:

Julius Metoyer III

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

Me unedited

Alright-y then I was tagged by PG a while ago to do an unedited self-portrait. The rules were:

As soon as you learn you have been tagged to play, you take a photo right away, no cleaning up, no primping, no preening. Just grab the camera and shoot. No cleaning up the photo in post either.

Now in my defense I didn't do it right away because I had just had surgery that day, and was totally knocked up on oxycodone.

Then I just forgot. :)

So here it is at long last, an unedited photo! This is me Monday about half way through my 3 hour hike. Scary I know!

So now I'm suppose to tag some people, and I decided to tag all you guys. :)

I also thought, to make this a little bit more interesting, that you should also include a few of favorite photographer under the following:

At least 1 favorite photographer in the field of photography in which you plan to pursue.

For me that's product/studio and real estate photography. And my favorite photographer in the product/studio is Jim Talkington you can see him here and here. And for real estate it's got to be Scott Hargis his website and his flickr.

At least 1 favorite photographer who mainly used film.

My favorite film photographers are, Walker Evans, Larry Towell, Julius Shulman and of course Ansel Adams.

sweet sunshine

18mm
f/7.1
1/200 sec
ISO-200
boosted contrast and used unsharp mask in gimp

Hello? Anybody there?

I miss you guys...

Nikon D80

Sigma 50mm 1.4

f/1.4

1/125

ISO 250

Photoshop:

Curves

New photo editing software!

This is the 3rd or 4th image I edited with my new copy of Adobe Lightroom 2.0. At the moment, I'm in the middle of editing an event I shot last night with this new software. It is wonderful and a real time savor for editing groups of RAW files at once. At the event I took over 400 photos, and "flagged" the ones I liked. You can do one just adjustment a single photo but then copy the settings and paste them into the other 20 or so all of the same camera settings. It's a great little program. Check out the 30 day trial if you haven't already at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

silent spring

So this is an incredibly boring book I have to read for english xD

46mm
f/5.3
1/4 sec.
ISO 1600

Darkened in gimp. I sharpened it a lot to add to the graininess

Sawyer

Nikon D80 

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 lens

50mm

f/1.4

1/400

ISO 100

Photoshop: Contrast + black and white conversion using channel mixers

Random shots taken with my (new) Canon 70-200mm

Last week, I bought my first canon L series lens. I did my home work on the 70-200mm I bought. I ended up getting the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM! It works so well, and it is substantially lighter in weight then the daddy in the 70-200mm family (70-200mm f/2.8 L IS) It is a little shaky at 200mm with out IS, but for $1150 more for the Image Stabilizer feature, I think I'll save my money and just be really steady. This lens handles lens flair really well, and having a constant aperture is really really nice. I have one other lens that is constant aperture and love it! I can't wait to do a real portrait shoot with it, I got it mainly for that reason and to use outdoors.