Fri - January 26, 2007

Sat - January 6, 2007

Run Like Hell

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time and I totally spaced who the photographer is... I looked through my links the other day and I can't find it anywhere. So I'm going to post it and hopefully someone else can tell me who took it?

What I know: It was taken during the Seattle WTO riots, I saved it from the photographers website and I think he is a seattle based freelance photographer. (I'd love to give him credit or remove this if he doesn't want it here)

What I like: It tells an incredible story all in one image. As a photographer it makes my heart race to think about being the guy to stand there and 'tell the story' while everyone else is falling down or running away.

So.... if you know or figure out who took it, please leave a comment or email me!

Thanks ~ Bill

Posted at 09:53 PM    

Tue - December 19, 2006

IR at Mission Ridge

Saturday before last I went skiing at Mission Ridge with Ken and took my IR camera . I had the meter set all wrong (I just don't use it very often...), but they were all workable in post production... I think these two images are pretty cool.

Me - it's so strange what gets picked up through the IR filter, my boots and pants are both black and my glasses are not clear, but it just shows that color and light are truly in the eye of the beholder.



Ken showing perfect form. I was skiing along beside him and firing off pictures, I like how this one frames him against the snow with trees and rock around. He looked through the set of images I had on the camera's LCD screen when we got to the bottom of the hill and was impressed that I can ski and shoot over my shoulder (or ski backwards and shoot) and hardly ever cut him out of the frame... its a gift. ;-)

Posted at 06:58 AM    

Sun - February 12, 2006

IR in the park

A couple shots of the moon just after dark, exposures were in the 20 second range:

Posted at 05:21 PM    

Fri - February 10, 2006

IR (first pics)

I completed my D70 infrared (IR) conversion last night. Here are the first images:

If you want to learn more about this conversion or IR photography in general, check out the vendor website where I got the parts for the job: http://www.lifepixel.com

Basically it involves taking the camera apart and replacing the glass filter that protects the sensor (and blocks IR light) with one that blocks visible light but lets IR light pass. So in a very real sense, the images are created with invisible light. This has always been a hard process in the past because a 'black' IR filter had to be screwed on the front of the lens for use with IR film or digital capture, meaning the photographer could not see through the viewfinder to compose the shot after the filter was in place. With this conversion, I can see through the viewfinder and shoot handheld. In my opinion this is as revolutionary for IR photography as digital is for photography in general.

Now the samples, these are all taken with ISO 1600.

When they first come out of the camera using a 'normal' white balance setting, they have a very strong magenta color cast, like this:



The easy option is to just convert to black and white, like these (note that Tara's sweatshirt is black):



But with some work, color can be restored:



That last image, by the way, is a picture of a D70 sensor board with the glass filter removed. More on that in my next post.

Posted at 08:09 AM    

Wed - February 8, 2006

Wine, Good Cheer and Good Friends

A few pictures of the wonderful time we had with our friends Paul and Kelly last night.

I took these at ISO 3200 using the Nikon D200, then processed them through Noise Ninja to tone down the noise a little. If you don't know what ISO is as it relates your digital camera, try this small article at Dpreview . DSLRs are capable of much higher ISOs than small point and shoot cameras, these pictures were taken with out flash in a dimly lit restaurant.

Paul and Kelly asked me some questions about blogs last night, including how they could search for other blogs on the internet. Here is a good start: Google Blog Search

Here are the pictures:

All 4 of us: (I'm in the mirror)

Posted at 07:47 AM    

Tue - February 7, 2006

PipeBomb

I saw this bike on the street a while ago while shooting a wedding in downtown Olympia, I couldn't resist taking a picture of it.
Picture below:

Posted at 09:57 AM    

Mon - February 6, 2006

Fri - February 3, 2006