The past week I've been taking a lot of panorama shots I've used photoshop to merge the photos together. I also shot in raw and just fixed the levels a bit
I used my tripod for this one so i could use a slower shutter speed, I love the reflection on the lake Blue Lake, Southland New Zealand
This was my aunt's wedding, and they had a 1920's theme. They had a photographer hired, but I figured I'd still get in there and get some shots of my own. It was very fun seeing everyone dressed up and i got some great shots. I decided to do black and white on most of them just to fit the 20's theme.
This is my favorite photo of the night. The only thing I dislike about it is the fact that her feet are cut off a bit. I took this during their first dance, which of course was fitted with the 20's theme, the Charleston.
There were a couple places around the hall set up for old time photographs. I decided to use this to my advantage.
HELLOOOOO So.. I've been in New Zealand since the 10th I'm on the South Island at the moment, heading to the North in a few days. I'm having a lot of fun, and haven't had many opportunities to use the internet. I have been taking a lot of pictures and I shot a wedding the other night. I've also been taking a lot of panorama shots, of the ocean as well as the farms over here. Some amazing scenery. I'm on dial up internet right now and it's way to slow to upload any pictures, but I have been editing and doing a lot. I will have a few projects posted hopefully within the next couple days when I can get better internet connection. :)
So over the past couple weeks, with the sunshine being out and as nice as it has been, I've been working on pictures using natural lighting. ALSO I was messing around with lightroom and downloading presets for it. I found a sweet fake HDR effect and thought I'd play around with it. I found it looked pretty good on some pictures.
These two pictures were the ones I used the preset on. I really like the portrait. I think it looks a bit over edited but at the same time I really like that look in some pictures. Both of these were using natural sunlight and nothing else. I also really like what the hdr preset did with the lens flare off of the water in the picture.
The only editing I did on these was some exposure adjustment in adobe raw editor. I just wanted to get some pictures that really demonstrated natural lighting
Some of these are really simple, I've found I'm really starting to like that concept in pictures.
This picture was taken with a 3 second shutter speed. I like how the lights from the houses lit up the houses shown in the pictures, as well as how the city lights contrast with the natural light left in the sky.
For a while now I've really been wanting to try out time lapse photography. This is my first attempt, and I'm not that impressed with it but I figured I'd post it. It is only over 20 minutes because it started raining outside (you can see the clouds roll in) so I couldn't capture the full sunset, just as the sky was starting to look awesome. I will definitely be trying this again soon
