Child photography

I was invited to photograph a child so beautiful and so cute as if she was an angel. It's a little hard to photograph children because they have an attention span of 10 seconds or maybe less. So, with the photos I've taken i got to salvage some decent shots. (^_^)

I just love this child infront of my camera. She's just so natural and innocent.

Details.

50 mm 1.8 nikkor
1/80th of a second
lastolite hotshoe ezybox
sb900 with orange gel to control WB since the place was filled with tungsten light
WB tungsten
I-TTL cord sc29 flash value +1
built in flash Commander Mode
ISO 100-400
ambient underexposed by two stops
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madinat at night

I wasn't able to enter the Burj Al Arab because i had a very big tripod that the security could notice. so dumb of me. Anyway, i did sneak in my tripod to the nearest Mall called Souk Madinat and got an amazing view from inside the Mall and the Burj itself. Settings were F8 at 30 seconds 18-135 kit lens and placed on self timer to avoid camera shakes. 5 pictures shot in portrait (horizontally) stitched together in Photoshop CS3 and here's the result. The second picture consists of 2 picture shot in landscape(horizontally) and stitched together in Photoshop.

Birthday

Flirty thirty is the theme of his upcoming birthday. I admire his talent for creativity and social ability.

Shot with a 50mm 1.8 flash at 1/16th power with a shoot through umbrella. Umbrella's at 3 pm about 3 feet away.

Here's one for you and Happy Birthday!

Yes, she's a Filipina. I just love beautiful women!!!!! When i took these shots she was still working as a receptionist for our company. Now she's one of those FLY EMIRATES gals.

Backyard Photography!

i got bored and went out to take some shots of the ongoing construction next to my building.

here's what i got.

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Her name's Porsche. Just like the car... Porsche. Why? Because she works at Porsche. She's my ever generous friend who treats her friends because she's damn generous. Did i mention she's generous? oh yeah i did. Quite redundant blog post. hahaha see yah around Porsche! (^_^)

first shots

She is a lovely little girl. Her name is Ariana. Father's an Arab and her mother's Portuguese. (^_^) she's one of my photo projects for New York Institute of Photography under the topic of child photography.

She's so so so so adorable. (^_^)

Taken with 50 mm 1.8 nikkor.

deadsmack middle

After following the rule of thirds for quite some time i just couldn't figure out where to put this tower within the frame till i placed it right in the middle. hehehe (^_^)

post processing

Here i am, stuck in my room post-processing some pictures. I wanted to create that neutral color effect some photographers do. I also have processed a black and white pix wherein black and white pix are judged by the lightest and darkest parts of the exposure. so i made sure i get those areas real clear with my black and white photo. These pictures were only processed in lightroom. I need more learning when it comes to Photoshop.

pano

trying out panorama.... why the hell is it so small? hmmm i need to readjust some settings in Photoshop. That's 6 photos stitched together night setting at f8 10 seconds.

3 pm flower

It's 3pm and i have no model to shoot. I'm in a secret garden (wherein only employees are allowed to sneak in) and shot everything that my eyes can see. Here's a chance to practice my strobe as well. Here's a shot taken at 3 pm in the afternoon with a 50 mm 1.8 lens and my strobe powered at 1/4th which made the whole background black. I can't remember if the lens aperture was at 4 or 1.8. This was also post processed to remove the green leaf hanging on the left side of the photo and cropped until only the flower could be seen. Contrast was also increased to make the flower a bit more red and pink.

Come to think of it, this photo looks a pix from a horror movie wherein i shot the hand of an undead while it was holding this flower. looks cool though! hehehe