Visited the local amusement park to catch high speed face expressions. It takes maaaaaany photos to get the expressions you want. Amusement parks are great to do people photography. No one can really stop you from taking these shots and most people don't even know... :-).
I have never seen so many mothers almost killing their kids. Just watch the photos, you wonder if the kids are screaming because they are afraid or because their mother is strangling them.
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Until next time, make sure you pick up the camera often, and play with the features in the camera - you will always come up with something cool.
Happy shooting!!
Thought I would try out producing a handheld HDR. This is the result after post processing in Photomatix and Photoshop. Bracketed seven images, with a 0.7 EV difference and threw away image 2, 4 and 6. Images 1, 3, 5 and 7 went into Photomatix and the final result was adjusted in Photoshop which came out as a 615 MB TIFF file. Can't do too many of those before the hard drive is full.
Right before sunset when light was fading away I was trying out a teqnique I have been thinking about to create surealistic dream photos. I popped up the on camera flash. Grabbed the zoom ring on my Tamron 17-50 mm f/2.8 lens. Started turning the camera slowly and pressed the shutter release. Not only did I twist the photo by turning the camera I also zoomed at the same time. The flash frooze the object partly. I used shutter speed priority to ensure a shutter speed of 0.2 - 0.5 sec. The photo exposure, contrast and saturation were enhanced a bit in Lightroom to increase the zoom and twist feeling. Try it - it is so much fun. Please share your results in the comments to this post to encourage others to try.
