Amazing Race test images

Sweet Spot Image

Sweet Spot: 5.6

Light Painting

Shutter synch Speed Demo a

Shutter Synch Speed Demo B

Diffused flash

ISO 200 70 mm f 5.0 at 1 / 200

balanced subject underexposed background

ISO 200 70 MM f 11 at 1 / 200

Second Curtain Synch

Panorama

My partner is Qian Ren

My top 3 image

 Depth of field.

1/125 @ f 9.0 ISO 10000

How I achieved this shot... I used a macro 100mm f 2.8 L lens. I put the ring on a shoe and distance the other shoe about 5 inches away from the earings. I was about 4-5 inches away from the earings. my aperture of f 9.0 give me as much sharpness on the first earing as i wanted and threw everything else nicely out of focus. 

Panorama

This is my previously shot panorama. It is still one of my favorite image using this technique.

Bounced Flash

as the weather in Hawkesbury hasn't been cooperating since friday i had to resort shooting inside. Here is my take on the most mondain daily activity using bounce flash. Flash was bounce on the left side wall.

Bounce Flash

ISO 1000 F 3.5 @ 1/80 Sec Flash ETTL - 1 Bounce on Ceiling

ISO 1000 F 3.5 @ 1/80 Sec Flash ETTL - 1 Bounce on wall

ISO 1000 F 3.5 @ 1/80 Sec Flash ETTL - 1 Bounce in paper bag

ISO 1000 F 3.5 @ 1/80 Sec Flash ETTL - 1 Bounce with Gary Fong

Demonstrating concept of fill in and Ambient light

I did notice the very brief change in the background. It does become slightly darker. However it is barely noticeable and might have to do with my flash who seemed to not work very well under the ettl.

f13 @ 1/30 ISO 250 Flash Ettl at -1

f8 @ 1/100 ISO 250 Flash Ettl at -1

f5.6 @ 1/200 ISO 250 Flash Ettl at -1

f22 @ 1/15 ISO 250 Flash Ettl at -1

Demonstrate Fill with max synch, 1/2 synch, and a 1/4 synch

1/200 @ f13 ISO 250 flash ETTL -1

1/100 @ f13 ISO 250 flash ETTL -1

1/50 @ f13 ISO 250 flash ETTL -1

Straight on Camera Flash VS Diffused camera flash

Straight on Camera Flash

Diffused with Gary Fong lightsphere on ettl -2

Part B : Removing Noise

Okay so I tested this technique twice. Personally i am not a big fan of it with people. a slight movement can cause the whole process not to work even when aligning the layers.

Photo 1: Noise removed

Photo 1: Noise not removed

Photo 2 : Noise Removed

Photo 2 : Noise not removed

Photo 3: Noise Removed

Photo 3: Noise not removed

Part A : Removing People

 In my first attempt, based on 20 images, I noticed some ghosting at the lights. We barely see the people but there is some kind of outline there. So I found that this was a failure. I tried again with another series.

Failure Final image:

 

Failure Image with people:

 

 

In this series I only used 9 images and found it quite successful. however, I can see some outline of the other image in the grey building part above pharmaprix. I'm curious if this corner was too busy in the first place.

Success image with most people eliminated:

Image with people in them:

Light Painting Test

Final Panorama

Panorama Test

Vogue Overlay

LIGHT METERING

Center Weighted Metering

Spot Metering

Partial Metering

Evaluative Metering

Incident Meter

Spot Metering

Partial Metering

Evaluative Metering

Center Weighted Metering

Incident light meter

My observation was that the incident light meter read the scene better than all other forms of metering. With the dark background the camera meter provided a reading that was over exposed while the white background the camera reading were underexposed.