Day One At Dave's: One Light Wonders

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© Rick Sammon
Day one of my workshop at the Dave Cross Studio in Oldsmar, Florida was a blast! I had eight students learning the benefits of shooting with one light source: speedlite in a Westcott Apollo softbox.

The image was taken with my Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 25-105mm IS lens. I had my Canon 580EX II placed in the Westoctt soft box. Click here to see all my gear.


Above:  Kathy Porupski was our voice activated light stand for the shoot. Kathy also helped with the model. Thanks Kathy!


Above: Your full-service instructor at work. Thanks Jason Ludwig for the nice behind-the-scenes image.

To the students: You all did a great job!

Stay tuned for more images from the workshop.

Explore the light,
Rick

P.S. For more lighting tips, see my apps.

Digital Delray Days - model shoots

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In addition to HDR, fill-flash, and street photography, my Digital Delray Days (based in Delray Beach, Florida) offers model photography. Here are two pix, both enhanced with Nik Color Efex Pro,  from two of our shoots.

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Explore the light,
Rick

Digital Delray Days - Day II

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Today was day #2 of my Digital Delray Days. Again, all the students did a great job.

One more Digital Delray Day on Thursday . . . then off to Orlando, Tampa and then Vero.

More pix to come, but for now, a favorite from our base camp: Colony Hotel.

Above: Potomatix HDR, Nik Software's Color Efex Pro/Detail Extractor, Magical Mirror Effect in Photoshop CS5.

Read about HDR and plug-ins here.

Yes. The work of MC Escher inspired my image.

© Jason Eldridge
Above: A cool shot of me shooting my Jason Eldridge:



Explore the light,
Rick

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First Annual Digital Delray Days Begins with HDR - and awakening the artist within

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Today was day #1 of my Digital Delray Days - an annual event designed to inspire creative photographers in South Florida . . . and from around the country.

We started the day with HDR - capturing the entire dynamic range of a very high contrast scene. Everyone got it! (We also covered flash and people photography.)

Back in my room, I processed my HDR sequence and added a touch of Topaz Adjust/ Dark Ghostly to create the image I saw in my mind's eye. After applying Topaz Adjust, I used Shadows/Highlights in Photoshop to fine-tune my image.

Read more about Topaz Adjust and the other plug-ins I use. Great creative fun.


Above: Middle exposure of my seven exposure HDR sequence.

The idea here is to envision the end-result... and to go beyond HDR images.

If you want to master HDR - and get some ideas for creative HDR images - check out my iHDR app.

Explore the light,
Rick

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A Florida Photo Caravan Favorite

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© Scott Steinke

We had our Florida Photo Caravan group slide show last night. Tons of great images.

One of our participants, Scott Steinke, needed to leave early and missed the show.

Scott, everyone loved this shot of yours! Great work my friend.

Digital Delray begins tomorrow. Pictures to come.

Explore the light,
Rick