Back From San Antonio

The Alamo....good, no...GREAT! Mexican food, and hot sticky weather is what San Antonio is all about!

The altitude chamber for flight school was all sorts of craziness! They brought us up to like 30 something thousand feet, then rapid decompressed the chamber! We had to don our masks and gangload our regulators or choke! Fun!

I'll be coaching a teammate for a Brazilian Jiu jitsu tournament tomorrow. I hope I get some kickass pics! If I do...I'll post them here!

Later!
-Mark

San Antonio - High Dynamic Range and Multi-Temporal Images...Whew!

I'm pooped...walking around Seattle for a week and now I'm running around the river walk in San Antonio. It's hot and muggy -- I like it! Below are images I've captured today.

The first is a multi temporal image. Put your camera on a tripod, take three shots of something moving with something not moving (for reference). Cut and paste two of the pics and paste them in as red and green layers of the third image (it is already the blue channel). So basically you've combined red, green, blue of three pics. Anything moving turns into acid, anything standing still is exposed correctly :)
The 5 shots below are of the river walk and buildings leading there. All images below are High Dynamic Range (HDR). Slap your junk onto a tripod, take a good metered image and take eight shots: 4 stops up and 4 stops down (shutter speed not aperature!). Merge'm together with Photomatix, throw some S curve lovin' from Photoshop and you get what you see below... :)






The HDR shots below are inside my swanky brothel-looking hotel :)






Ok tomorrow I'm off the altitude chamber for my flight school stuff (for work). Wish me luck!

PLAY!
-Mark

One Last Post For the Night

I'm off to San Antonio for a week. I'll be enlisting my old friend Terry and her husband Chuck for some photography practice. I told Terry, to get some old clothes ready to get wet, muddy and dirty :)
-Mark

My Version of Light Painting

Here's an experiment I did a long time ago. Just thought I would show some old experiments..of which I have thousands of images! Maybe I'll post a few. Some involve lasers, blur, cow skulls, eggs, and fire!

This is long exposure and some fun with a laser pointer :)


This one below is titled Flowers, and was done in my backyard with a flashlight.

PLAY!
-Mark

Painting With Light

So at the Antiworkshop John demonstrates some kick ass painting with light stuff. Of course this involves a willing participant. My buddy Zulu, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, African Lion hunting dog became my subject for my experiment. He sat there quietly as I blasted him with light! Not even a fidget or complaint, as he normally does when I have him sit there for a photo. I think it came out ok, nothing dramatic or award winning but proved to me I can do it. Now it's time to do some serious stuff :)
-Mark

Blur Can Be Good

Who says an image has to be sharp to tell a story?
Occasionally, breaking the rules is good :)
This little Walking Stick was on my back porch screen enjoying the sun when I came by with my Nikon and started to intrude on his sunbathing. I hope he didn't mind.-Mark

DOF makes me happy :)

I looooove DOF :)
This is a 50mm 1.4 with a macro extension tube pointing at my porch screen.


Play is good!
-Mark

First Post

Ok......So I attend the Antiworkshop in Seattle and everyone wants me to have a blog! So here it is. I'll post more as I get my images together from my fun week!