On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:12 -0500, "Christine Aguila" <cagu...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Well, yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of the start of the > construction on the parking garage and student services building at work. > The construction workers are on strike right now, but they'll get that > sorted soon, and work will resume. > > The photos are what they are, but I had so much fun shooting yesterday. > It > was dead quiet on the site. I had giggly conversation with Desmond, my > escort, while shooting, and it was the day of the tripod. Every picture > was > make on a tripod--except the stairway photo. The walk around the sight > was > leisurely, as was the speed of my shutter, shooting a lot of 1/3 - 1/6th > of > a second at ISO 400 with f-stops mostly in the f 4 - f 7.1 range, and I > bracketed virtually every shot, though I still had some tweaking to do in > the shadow areas--a bump up here and there, and some recovery of blown > highlights. Because I used a tripod, my frames were A LOT more level > than > my usual frames resembling a stroke victim with pronounced sagging to the > right. I only shot the interior, so I was out of the sun, and a cool > breeze > followed us around like a good friend. My construction boots were still > a > must, but I was allowed to abandon my hard hat and safety vest, so I > could > enjoy the breeze even more. > > It was just one of those shoots when it felt good to be both alive and a > photographer. > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/trconstructionjuly132010/ > > Comments welcome. > > Cheers, Christine
An excellent set of images - complements your previous work on this project really well. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with my tripod. I usually hate working with it (I start to feel a bit conspicuous...) but I invariably find my tripod shots are much better composed than hand held shots. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
