Kite Runner

Have you seen the movie poster for Kite Runner? Well I saw a dude at Castle Park flying the most complicated and deluxe kite I have ever seen. This kite was so powerful it almost lifted him of the ground. So I knew this would be a perfect moment to create a similar shot to the movie poster.


The original Movie Poster

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Anyways.... Here is how I took the shots. I first put my camera on shutter priority @ 1/200 and then metered my camera for the bright blue sky. It gave me an aperture around f11.0 (I think). Because the sky is much brighter then the ground, any object in front of me would be under exposed. To correct for under exposure, I attached my speedlite. I then adjusted my speedlite to properly expose object with in 6 feet of me. As you can see by the pictures both the sky and the guys' arm are in good exposure levels.

Home Renovation

I have been extra excited about flash photography recently since I saw that the company Pocket Wizard created a TTL version of Pocket Wizard that would work with my Canon speedlite. So this whole week I have been trying to find excuses to shoot with a flash so that I might justify purchasing the pocket wizard.

These pictures are of my friend Johnny, he is in the Home Renovation business. About a week ago I asked Johnny to come over and fix my fence and drink some beers. However instead of helping I started to go trigger happy and started to take pictures.

This first picture was taken at f11, 1/250sec, ISO 100. What I did first was set my exposure 1 stop down for the blue sky. Because the sky was much brighter then the area Johnny was working in, I needed to use my strobes to fill-in the light artificially. I used two strobes connected wirelessly. I placed one about 6 feet up on johnny's 10 o'clock and placed the other strobe on the ground at Johnny's 2 o'clock. I dont think the bottom strobe helped at all. The top strob was set to half power.

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This second shot was with natural lighting with my camera at Aperture priority -0.7ev, f2.8, 1/3200, ISO 100. I find whenever the sky is really nice blue it is best to under expose the image or the blue will get washed out and look white.

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Port Hardy

I went to Port Hard over the weekend Feb 16-18. My cousins and I decided to go so that we could go digging for GeoDuck Clams. As usual I brought my camera and was annoying everyone one with shots.

Here are a couple of pictures that I took

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