I cant say enough about how incredible this city is. Click here for the full set of images.
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To celebrate the holiday, I decided to shoot today entirely using a technique that I’d never tried: freelensing. It’s basically shooting without the lens physically attached to the camera. Instead, the lens is held close to the lens mount, tilted, manually focused, and, in my case, prayed over…all in hopes of getting something interesting. The effect is somewhat similar to what can be done with a tilt shift lens: the focal plane can be manipulated all over the frame (and even back and forth in the Z-dimension) depending on how the lens is held and focused. So far I would describe the technique as “impossible.” But I did like a few images from today, including a couple of rare shots of my sister. All images were taken with a 50mm lens wide open at f/1.4.
I love this image, because its CRAZY to shoot at f/1.4, from this close, and have both her chin AND her eyelashes in focus. Awesome.
This image was actually taken the “normal” way, with the lens attached. But I always love images of my niece, so it somehow found it way into this post
nice work. last two are particularly awesome.
Some of what I captured during my very first trip to New Orleans.
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Andrea Hlavackova, one round before Serena bageled her 6-0, 6-0.
Maria Kirilenko
Ms. Softee
Thinking (hoping?) that this was Blake’s swan song, although I loved seeing him one last time. Despite the throttling by Raonic.
Andy Roddick’s final victory
It’s been two long years since I’ve seen Leila (here are the pictures from our last visit). Since then, she’s come into a new little brother, Cole! He is just about the most laid back little boy I’ve ever met. I had another great morning goofing around in the backyard with the family, and here are some of my favorites from the day.
Amazing…. Wonderful photos. I would like to visit Istanbul.