Christine, I think Brian's comment hits the mark. I've looked and enjoyed these pictures several times. The careful compositions make them sing to me... Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
