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Jeremy > June 1, 2009; Day 30. Suppertime. Tonight I was in Portsmouth for what may be the only time this month. It was nice to spend some quality time with the boys before the schedule gets hectic. This was shot with my new fisheye lens using TTL bounce flash. I had been a big fan of bounce flash until I recently read this plug at the Strobist website: “Are you worthless and weak? Do you cry for your mama every time you need to balance a couple of flashes with the ambient? Are you still using TTL bounce flash? We are here to save you from yourself.” Oh boy. Boot Camp II is coming and I haven’t even glanced at Boot Camp I. So much to learn! So little time! For most of the day I had daydreams of capturing Portsmouth’s Memorial Bridge under a dusk blue sky but my friend Raymond held up the potluck for 30 minutes cooking his potatoes. When I was finally free to sneak out, the sky was gone. Luckily the late dusk will last into August so that photo will come. Raw: Color Temperature: 5450K; Tint: 0 Raw: Recovery: 30 Raw: Fill Light: 10 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > May 18, 2009; Day 16. Starbucked Society. My friend Dennis tells me not to be afraid to channel Edward Hopper in my photography. This was the first time that I was deliberately thinking about it as I shot this scene. My lens choice is too wide to bring the eye to what’s happening inside the window, but I could not help myself in my desire to also capture the light and color of downtown Portsmouth at dusk, and of course, that lovely sky. Raw: Color Temperature: 2900K; Tint: -8 Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Recovery: 100 Raw: Fill Light: 30 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > May 4, 2009; Day 2. Dusk Launderette. It’s Monday and I’m in Portsmouth enjoying the late evening dusk. I was compelled to return to this location with the ultra-wide lens and find a better angle than the one I captured before. I think I got the amount of evening ambient light just right. Now all I need is a little action. Someone in that chair with a book, and/or someone standing over one of these machines. And a little steam on the windows would help too. Remarkably, I never noticed that pair of underwear sitting there. Raw: Color Temperature: 3900K; Tint: +2 Raw: Recovery: 100 Raw: Fill Light: 8 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > March 9, 2009; Day 311. Spring Interrupted. Today New Hampshire was blanketed with a few inches of wet snow. The temperature hovered right near freezing all day, with no wind, so finding trees like this one was easy. This tree lives just outside South Church in Portsmouth where I spend most Mondays. The two spotlights are turned on with motion sensors but they only stay on for a few seconds, so I had to stay in front of the sensor and dance behind the camera to keep them on. Raw: Crop: 8.5MP Raw: Color Temperature: 2850K; Tint: +1 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Fill Light: +25 Raw: Saturation: +30 PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > February 16, 2009; Day 290. Night Church. As I walked up to South Church in Portsmouth tonight for my usual Monday evening social group, I liked how this lamp was lit by the mercury vapor coming down from the ceiling. So I shot multiple angles, focal lengths, and heights and liked this shot best. Again I have the ISO cranked in order to hand hold this night-time shot, but granite is inherently noisy so I didn’t think I’d mind. I don’t. Sodium vapor light is crashing the party from the left side, casting a faint bit of orange on the granite wall and floor. Since I’m only working with ambient light, the only way to fix this is to go black and white. But I liked the orange building and I didn’t want to mess with layers. I need sleep. I can hardly wait to work with dusk-filled sky again in the evenings. Each day the sun sets a little bit later. I’m not in any hurry for the bugs, but I do plan to enjoy the extra light. Raw: Color Temperature: 4050K; Tint: +22 Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Recovery: +30 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Curves adjustment for more contrast PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > February 9, 2009; Day 283. Spotlight Jasper. Tonight my Portsmouth friends played a home-made version of the game “Catch Phrase.” It was very campy good time as we guessed deliberately wrong words. Here my friend Jasper is in the “lightning round” trying to get people to guess a most difficult word. I don’t even remember it now; I think it was one of the phobias, but not the one where people fear peanut butter getting stuck on the roof of their mouths. Luckily I don’t have that one. In this shot you can see the conflicting colors of light on the floor. The right side is lit by fluorescent bulbs while the left side is lit by incandescent floodlamps. Sometimes you have to just roll with life’s punches. I am packing up to head to Waverly tomorrow. I may not have any internet for the next few days. But I will have my camera and will catch up when I return. Raw: Color Temperature: 2950K; Tint: +21 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves adjustment to give the effect of developing E4 slide film in C41 chemicals PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > September 22, 2008; Day 143. Rehabilitation. My friend Phil has worked with his hands most of his life, and therefore can take the knots out of your muscles without even concentrating. Tonight he helped remove some lingering soreness in my shoulders from being hunched over for so long during the ride. One thing I notice: Someone could lose a couple of pounds. The 2 months of training took me out of the gym and was less aerobically intense than what I’ve been used to. It’s showing here, even though the scale says I remained flat throughout. Probably some muscles atrophied while I was away. A little dieting might be a good idea too. So far, I haven’t yet seen any pictures of me on the bike but I expect them to start arriving this week. Raw: Color Temperature: 5250K Raw: Fill Light: +30 Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Saturation: +20 PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
Jeremy > July 27, 2008; Day 86. Tonight’s fundraiser, from a purely social aspect, was another success. This is mostly due to the diligence of people who know what they're doing and make the whole thing run like a well-oiled machine. Financially, it’s too early to tell, but I feel good about it. Joe McNally says that rear curtain sync is great when you want to freeze some action in a sea of motion. I caught this scene of our dance floor tonight. The flash is angled up at the ceiling which is why it doesn’t freeze everyone. I was unable to increase the exposure in this image without blowing out the red shirt, and I didn’t want to crop out the action above him. I’ll mark this one down as a decent start. I’m so glad I’m off this week and can sleep in tomorrow! PS: Crop: ~10%
Jeremy > July 21, 2008; Day 80. Boys Night Out. Tonight was movie night, but I didn’t get to relax and enjoy it because next Sunday, we are hosting our biggest fundraising event of the year. I enjoy spending time on this because we keep very little of the money for ourselves. Mostly, we donate our proceeds to other non-profits throughout this area. So naturally I ran around tonight tying up the last-minute details making sure that everything goes smoothly. This is my first usage of Photoshop’s Photomerge feature. I continue to be impressed by what PS can do. I thought it would have trouble correcting the ceiling, which slants one way in one image and the other way in the other. Perhaps PS can even remove that ugly blob of green flare, but if so, I don’t know how to invoke it! I like the big color shift in the next room, which is being lit almost entirely by floodlamps. After Photomerge: PS: Exposure: +0.3 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
June 1, 2009; Day 30.

Suppertime.

Tonight I was in Portsmouth for what may be the only time this month. It was nice to spend some quality time with the boys before the schedule gets hectic.

This was shot with my new fisheye lens using TTL bounce flash. I had been a big fan of bounce flash until I recently read this plug at the Strobist website: “Are you worthless and weak? Do you cry for your mama every time you need to balance a couple of flashes with the ambient? Are you still using TTL bounce flash? We are here to save you from yourself.” Oh boy. Boot Camp II is coming and I haven’t even glanced at Boot Camp I. So much to learn! So little time!

For most of the day I had daydreams of capturing Portsmouth’s Memorial Bridge under a dusk blue sky but my friend Raymond held up the potluck for 30 minutes cooking his potatoes. When I was finally free to sneak out, the sky was gone. Luckily the late dusk will last into August so that photo will come.

Raw: Color Temperature: 5450K; Tint: 0
Raw: Recovery: 30
Raw: Fill Light: 10
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > June 1, 2009; Day 30. Suppertime. Tonight I was in Portsmouth for what may be the only time this month. It was nice to spend some quality time with the boys before the schedule gets hectic. This was shot with my new fisheye lens using TTL bounce flash. I had been a big fan of bounce flash until I recently read this plug at the Strobist website: “Are you worthless and weak? Do you cry for your mama every time you need to balance a couple of flashes with the ambient? Are you still using TTL bounce flash? We are here to save you from yourself.” Oh boy. Boot Camp II is coming and I haven’t even glanced at Boot Camp I. So much to learn! So little time! For most of the day I had daydreams of capturing Portsmouth’s Memorial Bridge under a dusk blue sky but my friend Raymond held up the potluck for 30 minutes cooking his potatoes. When I was finally free to sneak out, the sky was gone. Luckily the late dusk will last into August so that photo will come. Raw: Color Temperature: 5450K; Tint: 0 Raw: Recovery: 30 Raw: Fill Light: 10 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
June 1, 2009; Day 30.

Suppertime.

Tonight I was in Portsmouth for what may be the only time this month. It was nice to spend some quality time with the boys before the schedule gets hectic.

This was shot with my new fisheye lens using TTL bounce flash. I had been a big fan of bounce flash until I recently read this plug at the Strobist website: “Are you worthless and weak? Do you cry for your mama every time you need to balance a couple of flashes with the ambient? Are you still using TTL bounce flash? We are here to save you from yourself.” Oh boy. Boot Camp II is coming and I haven’t even glanced at Boot Camp I. So much to learn! So little time!

For most of the day I had daydreams of capturing Portsmouth’s Memorial Bridge under a dusk blue sky but my friend Raymond held up the potluck for 30 minutes cooking his potatoes. When I was finally free to sneak out, the sky was gone. Luckily the late dusk will last into August so that photo will come.

Raw: Color Temperature: 5450K; Tint: 0
Raw: Recovery: 30
Raw: Fill Light: 10
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
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