Issues with Photos

While editing I noticed something out of the ordinary in one of my photos. In this screen shot, you can see the unusual thing I discovered. The photo looks great big, but when zoomed in not so much. If you view the smaller version of photo on left of my screen which is the full size photo (the big one in the center is a cropped view), you will see it’s a wonderfully composed and nice looking shot. Now, I don’t know if this was a flaw with the actual photo or rather an unusual umm thing coming out of this girl’s nose. Anyway, I have never seen my camera pull a stunt like that so perhaps she has some strange thing coming out of her nose, but who really knows? Anyway, I has to manually remove it from the photo. This was a shoot I did a month ago or so but this photo still puzzles me.

More strobist stuff

Now I have four strobes (flashes) and I’m totally ready to do any kind of storbist photography (almost). Here is my setup for photographing one of my cameras. You can see, it’s very makeshift. That said, it still works very well. I am just experimenting at this point in time.

100 Strangers… part 1 (of 100)

I really love this capture. Shot with my 70-200, I was able to get just the right amount of DoF to make the main focus of the photo the subject rather than some sign behind him. When I look at the full res copies of my photos (MUCH larger than what your seeing) and I see the crispness of my shots, it makes me fell better that the camera and lens alone (own many cameras and lenses) used to shoot this is over $2500. The lighting was perfect (about 5:45 during fall), but more importantly, the subject was perfect. I caught him as he was walking back to his car from a days work. I don’t know where he works but I’d assume it’s something professional judging by his his suit. The best part of this photo is that he has a slightly melancholy look on his face. In my mind, I assume it’s from the depressing and taxing work he does. Perhaps he does not appreciate his job. Or maybe, he just got laid off. In the second photo he is holding a lunch box. I like to put this story together in my head: he is a child in a man’s suit (get the pun). Or perhaps the juxtaposition of the professionalism derived from his suit and his facial expressional combined with his little red lunch box is profound enough to just make my mind attempt to justify his demeanor. Anyway, he was a very interesting stranger to meet and photograph.