Canon 5D Mark II/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries Post #7

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Today we took a trip to Guanjuato - about an hour from San Miguel. A huge festival took over the city, giving us wonderful travel portrait opportunities.

The middle and right pictures: street performers. 

The girl on the left: someone snacking on some ice cream after having some pizza in a local pizza joint. I took that picture in the dimly lit entrance to the pizza place with my 5D Mark II set at ISO 6400. Now that's impressive low-light photography.

We made all these pictures, asking the subjects to move into more flattering and pleasing lighting. All the pictures were taken with my favorite people photography lens, my Canon 24-105mm IS zoom.

When photographing people, respecting the subject is the most important thing to remember.

For more on travel portraiture, check out this article.

Explore the Light,
Rick


Canon 5D/7D San MIguel de Allende Diaries Post #6

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Today's early morning walk - up and out before the city woke up - yielded more cool shots - including this HDR shot: merged with Photomatix and enhanced with Topaz Adjust.

About 90 percent of our shots are HDR shots - which, naturally, have a much wider dynamic range than my shots from my trip here five years ago.

I think HDR stands for High Dynamic Rockin' images!

Click here for more info in HDR.

Explore the light,
Rick

101 Photo Tips for 101 Days

Happy Halloween All!

Here's my treat for this Halloween: 101 Photo Trips for 101 days.

I've been blogging for about six months and I figure I have more than 100 tips in the archives here. If I mis-counted, you'll find more tips here.

Check out one tip day!

Happy Halloween.

Explore the Light,
Rick

This blog post sponsored by ScanCafe. What ya waiting for? Scan your old slides and prints and have working and playing with them in Photoshop.

Canon 5D/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries Post #5

Day #3 here in San Miguel de Allende is coming to close - for me, anyway. We shot all day and we are burnt.

Continuing our theme of shadows, we photographed this woman tonight in the light of a streetlight. Remember: there is always enough light for a picture, as long as you have a tripod.

Personally, I am not big on photographing poverty. But I took this picture because the woman's face is hidden in the shadows.

I think the shadows on the yellow part of the wall add to drama of this photograph.

Remember: Light Illuminates, shadows define.

ISO 2000, Canon 5D Mark II, 24-105mm IS lens.


Explore the Light,
Rick

Canon 5D/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries #4



Day #3 here in San Meguel de Allende. The Day of the Dead is only a few days away!

Today we focused on capturing cool shadows. We got up early and made it a point to photograph scenes with dramatic shadows. The first step: find locations that offers nice shadows.

Here are two of my favorite images. It's interesting what you see when you are looking for something - don't ya think?

This weekend,  go out (or stay in) and shoot for great shadow shots. If you get some nice images, share them on my flickr page.

Wanna see a fun video on shadows? Click here. :-)

Explore the Light,
Rick

This blog post sponsored by ExpoImaging.