My favorite shoot of the year, and I think I'm getting better each time. Like always I DID bring the tripod but the boat was rocking so much it was useless. Went handheld the whole time.
Experimented a bit with some 2-4 second long exposures at St. Mary's Fair in Middletown last night. Lots of fun and interesting streaks =) Painting with Light is a lot easier than drawing for me, I can't draw a straight line...
Finally got my order untangled from Amazon and got my new Terminator EndoSkull BluRay package sent out. Did a full unboxing, experimenting a bit with the AlienBee B800 MonoStrobe, check out the ones where you can see me warped via a funhouse mirror effect about 10 into the set!
On my way in to Ryan's game tonight I casually looked over one shoulder and found myself less than 6 feet away from this red tailed hawk! Silently cursing I remembered I didn't have a memory card in the D300. So I stopped and quietly pulled out my pack of Sandisks and put one in, slowly. Once in I saw what I feared most, 14 remaining shots. I took a half dozen then started to pull out my pack again when I saw a woman quickly approaching yapping on her cell phone at the top of her lungs. Of course she scared it off, and the tail-feathers you see in the last two frames are the results.
If you look closely you can see feathers in his beak, either he had a songbird for dinner or was preening himself.
I thought the Sign on the can ruined the shot, I might try photoshopping that out, but it also adds a bit of irony, don't you think?
