At the ball game…

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I did some more RAW experimentation today:

I spent the better part of today at the C2E2 convention. It was fun, but I was a little disappointed because there weren’t very many people in costumes. I was expecting to take a ton of pictures, but I didn’t really get many.

Today I tried shooting in RAW mode exclusively for the first time. This was not very successful. I was using my newer E-PL1 camera with a 20mm f1.7 lens. I had it in full auto, thinking that I was going to be taking snapshots, so I didn’t need to muck about with settings. Here is the problem: It was set to auto ISO. This setting is biased for a lower ISO, which meant that I was shooting with the lens wide open all the time… An f1.7 lens has REALLY shallow depth of field, and also isn’t at it’s sharpest at f1.7… If I had set the camera to use a higher ISO, but left all other settings auto, the camera would have stopped down the lens, and the pictures would have come out sharper.

Oh well! Not all experiments are successful.

I also need to learn how to adjust my workflow when dealing with RAW images. I’ll have to get some more practice!

Posting a video from my phone!

Originally uploaded by lopatinj

It was a busy weekend for photography. Most of the shots in these 2 galleries were taken while working on DRIFT.

Here are the next set of DRIFT production stills:

Here are the weekend’s random images:

Enjoy!

Shooting DRIFT

Originally uploaded by lopatinj

Spring is finally here.  I took these pictures in my front yard:

Here are the production stills from the first day of shooting DRIFT:

The photo assignment experiment is back! We have a number of new participants this year. We will be discussing in the forums. If you sign up for the forums and I don’t recognize your email address, I won’t approve you.

We decided to do some slightly less vague topics this year, in order to make it easier to compare/contrast the photos.

Enjoy:

Here are some new galleries:

The first are some Macro images. Can you tell what they are?

This next gallery is the first set of images from the first day of principle photography on DRIFT. These are not the production stills. Those will be posted soon.

Keep an eye out next week for this year’s first Photo assignment. We have more people involved than in previous years, so it should be exciting!