Jul 13, 2011 | Field Reports
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We had such fun and success running this offer at the new Year, we’d thought we’d run again. It’s pretty simple, every fifth person to renew or subscribe to the BT Journal will receive a copy of Captured. Every tenth person will receive, a 22×17 Moose Print of their choice (I’ll be printing it myself). Last time we ran it for just a day but this time we decided we’d make it a week long event starting today and running until midnight Friday the 15th. We gave away 23 books last time so we’re hoping to break that record this time. To win, SIMPLY CLICK and fillout the form. We look forward to hearing from you!
Winners! (winners will be emailed)
Jimmy Lee – book
Cathy Leland – print
Penelope Taylor – book
Daryl Butcher – print
Paul Sebourn – book
Debie Shew – Print
Brandon Murray – book
Ron Grimes – Print
Edward Rogner – book
David Crandall – Print
Jul 12, 2011 | Field Reports
We had such fun and success running this offer at the new Year, we’d thought we’d run again. It’s pretty simple, every fifth person to renew or subscribe to the BT Journal will receive a copy of Captured. Every tenth person will receive, a 22×17 Moose Print of their choice (I’ll be printing it myself). Last time we ran it for just a day but this time we decided we’d make it a week long event starting today and running until midnight Friday the 15th. We gave away 23 books last time so we’re hoping to break that record this time. To win, SIMPLY CLICK and fillout the form. We look forward to hearing from you!
Winners! (winners will be emailed)
Jimmy Lee – book
Cathy Leland – print
Penelope Taylor – book
Daryl Butcher – print
Paul Sebourn – book
Debie Shew – Print
Jul 11, 2011 | Field Reports
I still have not had a greater thrill in photography then air to air photography! That’s why I started the Air2Air Workshop with my mentor and brilliant aviation photographer Richard VanderMuelen. We want to share this thrill with you at teh same time teach you how to do it safely and successfully.
While out Nov AZ workshop is full (but taking a waiting list), we do have a couple of openings in our amazing Nov TX workshop at Lonestar Aviation Museum Now if you don’t wanna click on the link to see some of the aircraft scheduled to be photographed (which sadly we can’t guarantee), I’ve put a couple of images up here to enlighten.
The Lonestar Museum has some gorgeous aircraft to put up, three on the list is their B-17G “Thunderbird,” F4U Corsair, F8F-2 Bearcat and P-47 Thumbderbolt just to mention a few. This is a warbird photographer’s dream list of aircraft lined up for an amazing shoot. You can click on the links for more info or call 760.924.8632/661.204.1506 for more info or to sing up. See you in the skies!
Jul 11, 2011 | Field Reports
We had such fun and success running this offer at the new Year, we’d thought we’d run again. It’s pretty simple, every fifth person to renew or subscribe to the BT Journal will receive a copy of Captured. Every tenth person will receive, a 22×17 Moose Print of their choice (I’ll be printing it myself). Last time we ran it for just a day but this time we decided we’d make it a week long event starting today and running until midnight Friday the 15th. We gave away 23 books last time so we’re hoping to break that record this time. To win, SIMPLY CLICK and fillout the form. We look forward to hearing from you!
Winners! (winners will be emailed)
Jimmy Lee – book
Cathy Leland – print
Penelope Taylor – book
Daryl Butcher – print
Paul Sebourn – book
Debie Shew – Print
Jul 8, 2011 | Field Reports
A very typical email just came in with a photographic problem that has been around since day 1. “Highnoon light just won’t go away and I’ve got to make the photograph. What do I do?” Tim wrote. I can tell it’s summer because these kinds of emails come in constantly because we have so much “highnoon light.” The problem is the quality of the light, what is simply referred to as “hard” light (can’t recognize hard light, look at the edge of shadows. If it’s a hard line between shadow and light, it’s hard light.) Breaking this down, it means that the exposure range between the shadows and the highlights is huge, often so big we loose detail in one or the other. You have a small subject, you can change this with a simple diffusion flat or flash or both. But you start to get a big subject or one not physically close and these options are no longer options. Add to the mix working alone and fast, and you have to make do with what’s at hand.
What you have here is a perfect example of what Tim was wanting help with. Shot around 13:00, the light is pretty nasty, hard without much character. But this is when the Unlimited Class at the Reno Air Races are saddling up to go out on the course. You want the shot, the time is now. I simply click because I know that even with this situations where the sky is bla, the underside of the wings are in deep shadow that I can, in less then 15sec, make a workable, printer, acceptable at the very least print, from this situation. Even in the limited sRGB environment of the web, you can see the improvements in the top and bottom image (top being the after). How’d I do that, and what did I do in 15sec to achieve those results?
Well, I can tell you that all I used for the processing was ACR! Whether you use LR, Bridge or PS, it’s all the same Adobe Camera Raw and you too can learn how to do it and do it just that fast. And the best part is, when you understand the process in post, you’ll know light a helluva a lot better and that can only improve your photography! So if you wanna learn that, we have the class for you! Wanna learn more….click here…or simply call WRP @760.924.8632 or 661.204.1506 to register. Dates 16/17 July & 8/9 Oct 2011 with more dates coming.
Jul 8, 2011 | Field Reports
You might have missed the announcement of this new lens – pillow yesterday. Here ya go, just in time for your xmas list!
