The Gondola, my fifth photo in my working on the mountain series. Who wouldn’t love a good fifteen minute ride up and down the mountain every day? I know I sure do! It gives me some good down time from standing all day long. I would have to say its my favorite part of working on the mountain..apart from photographing of course.
Trigger man: Myself
Strobist: One SB600 on camera.
Camera info: Nikon D700 | 18-35mm ƒ/3.5-4.5 | ƒ/13 | 1/125th.
You may have noticed I haven’t posted any of my self-portraits for a month now. But like I mentioned on day 16 I have work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. So if days are missing its because I need more than a couple hours of sleep a day. This doesn’t mean I’m not taking the photos it just mean I’m a perfectionist when it comes to posting the final image. But I have come to realize that I need to not be so picky when it comes to finishing them up or else I’m going to get way to far behind, like I already am. So here is me starting the catch up process.
Today I decided to start a small series of photographs of me at work, up at The Canyons mountain resort as a Sharp Shooter. The series really started with my alarm clock shot from day 9 where I’m waking up at 6:30 A.M. and now continues with my hour drive up the canyon. This shot was taken on my way up Parleys canyon. As you can see I’m super tired from working so much. But you got to do what you got to do when you have a student loan over your head. Anyhow I hope you enjoy my small series of photos. I’m only posting my Canyons work photos when I actually work at the Canyons. So there will be days where it has nothing to do with the Canyons. Because I’m also working for Spotlight Home Tours photographing homes that are up for sale. I’ll probably do something with that job later on. For now enjoy!
Trigger man: Myself
Strobist: Just an overcast morning.
Camera info: Nikon D700 | 16mm ƒ/2.8 Fisheye | ƒ/4.5 | 1/60th | ISO 1600
First of all what is “Fast Glass”? Well when we photographers are talking about glass were really talking about a lens for a camera we just like to use code haha. Then the fast comes in when the lens can let in a lot of light for example an ƒ/1.4 or a ƒ/2.8 would be a fast lens.
So why do we want fast glass or a fast lens? Because of Depth of Field. The faster the glass the shallower the depth of field becomes. Also a fast lens will allow you to shoot in very low light which is very nice. The only thing that isn’t nice about fast glass is the price tag.
The images below show the advantages of having a fast lens and being able to shoot at those low f-stop numbers.
ƒ/14 not so great for portraits to much detail in the background but would be nice for landscapes. ƒ/1.4 really selective focus great for portraits like this one. What one would you rather use?
Well now I’m getting some phase 4 momentum and I’m not stopping till graduation! (Booya!) I have been getting models and I’m scheduling them. Getting organized! I even spent six hours shooting glassware in commercial. I had fun shooting, it was the first time I shot to my laptop in the commercial. I had the shots coming in to Lightroom automatically then I was exporting them to Facebook on the fly. It was pretty cool to see my shots go from being taken to going into lightroom and having a quick edit applied then uploaded to the web all in under three mins! You can see my shoots from the six hour shoot below. As you can see with the twirling shots I was trying to mimic the spiral in the stem of the glass.
