Evan's photography phun

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Cheers guys. You are welcome to come out and do some shooting with me Lee. Chino is a great show, but the action comes fast and heavy, which doesn't always leave a lot of time for discussion. But for variety of aircraft, it is a tough one to beat.
 
Some of you guys will remember me announcing the birth of my daughter here. Well, the little one is obviously very shy around the camera.
 

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Thanks guys. She will pose and is real good around the camera. The only problem is that she wants to see the photo right after you take it, which makes it difficult to get several shots on the same pose. But I have been blessed with 2 photogenic children. It came from their mom's side.
 
Here is a shot that shows 2 of my techniques. The first shot is a Kamikaze Camera shot that I took on Saturday. We had friends and family over for a bbq and get together. I stood near our kitchen door, raised my camera above my head and guessed the downward angle, not caring about the horizon. As I have said in other postings, a majority of KC shots will be crap, but you can also get some cool and/or interesting shots.

The second shot is a a little contrast adjustment, crop and sharpen to show that editing can make a difference. The third shot involved rotating the photo 25 degrees, a slight exposure correction and crop to give the more "traditional" portrait style, although I would remove the background and do more with it for a more professional look if I were going to sell this as a portrait.
 

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I like the last image of the three most Eric I like impact tighter cropped portraits the guys facial expression and angle is really nice and good highlights in the eyes of both subjects. At least with digital loosing the background clutter is a lot easier than dodging in the darkroom used to be dont you think ?. For high angle shots I used to love my old Mamiya RB67's waist level view finder, upside down at arms length you could still frame your shots perfectly, it was really usefull in crowd situations and saved having to carry steps around which in many places they dont let you use anyway.
Nice bit of technique illiustration work there Eric thanks.

I see Koda/Ectachrome has reached its end of life
that super film has captured more classic colour images than any other by a mile.
 

These are great Eric! The best I can offer so far relies on the action rather than the quality.
This is a female Sparrowhawk flying off with one of our central London courtyards Pigeons in it's talons, it's remarkable the wildlife we get here, Foxes turn up on the communal veranda in the night!
The photo was taken from before I had a computer, I was lying on my bed hen I heard a pigeon scream, I thought a cat of if lucky, a Kestrel Falcon (quite common here) had got it and grabbed my camera.
I was just in time to get this picture of something far more rare, the Sparrow hawk was threatened in Britain not so long ago.
The picture showed only a blob in the corner and years later I got the hang of using Jasc paintshop and extracted the image here from the corner of the photo and developed it to this.



My Yogi isn't even wild enough to swim in the Thames....some Labrador!
 
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Got some flowers yesterday and have been playing in Photoshop. It is really is amazing what you can do with Photoshop. I turned my son into an evil smurf.
 

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