Architectural photo shoot at the new Austin Public Library
As a photography exercise and as part of the curriculum for my mentee from the Westlake High School Independent study course, I decided on an Architectural photo shoot at the new Austin Public Library. Nolan and I spent the day there and I taught him my methods of shooting real estate architectural interiors. You can find no better photo ops than the new Public Library. It is a spectacular feat of contemporary architecture. Nolan shot 5 brackets of a top image and the same for a bottom image and then we photo-merged the two together to get a portrait aspect ratio and then we painted in the exposures we wanted from each bracketed image. Here are the 2 images that make up the final master image.
Austin Public Library Architectural photo bottom half
Austin Library architectural bottom half
Austin Library architectural final image
Additional architectural images Nolan shot on location at the library:
Architectural photo shoot at the new Austin Public Library
Architectural photo shoot at the new Austin Public Library bookshelves
Architectural photo shoot at the new Austin Public Library breezway
The new Austin Public Library breezeway 2
She is shooting me shooting two guys shooting the moon rise
Shooting others while shooting the moon rise
While at Hilton Head last week, while we were on the beach the moon began to rise over the ocean. We braved the sand fleas and hung out to watch. While I was shooting my brother and friend shoot the moon rise, though you cannot see her, there was someone behind me and she is shooting me shooting two guys shooting the moon rise. Sort of surreal.
Shooting 2 guys shooting the moon rise
Light Painting an Orchid
Light Painting an Orchid.
For his lesson today, Nolan who I mentor in the independent studies program at Westlake High School, we light painted this orchid. We lit the plant with a small led flashlight and looked at each image on my ipad by using the Cam Ranger system plugged into the Canon 5d Mark 3 camera. We ended up with 10 different images of varying lighting on the orchid that we layered and masked together to create this final image. We back lit the flowers and front lit the flower buds. The back lighting helped pop out the dramatic edges of the flower petals.
Light Painting an Orchid by Nolan and Johnny
These are some of the light painted images that we blended together to make the final Orchid image.
Light Painting an Orchid
