Online home of dwrd studios
As you can see, things look different around here. I decided that it was time to give a new look to my site and make the page cleaner, as well as make sure that all of my sub-pages are properly updated. There will be some instances where the site will be unavailable as I test to make sure that the changes are working as planned. I hope to have an update on my trip to photograph bald eagles at Reelfoot Lake up soon.
I am very close to having the collage done where I can send it off to be printed. All that remains is to do final tweaking of some of the alignment at a full zoomed in version. I was mainly working in 20% view due to the size of the canvas in order to get everything placed. Here is a working copy of the image.
I finally got around to getting all of my Dragon*Con 2011 pictures posted. I ended up not shooting as many pictures as last year due to my ringflash project, but I am ok with that fact.
The rest of the pictures can be seen at
http://www.dwrd.net/photography/galleries/dragoncon-2011/
This year for Dragon*Con, I was looking for some sort of personal project to shoot during the con. I decided to bring the Jarvie Window to Dragon*Con 2011. I saw this phenomenon posted on Strobist quite some time ago and thought that it was neat, but never thought that I would have the opportunity to try it out. I recently picked up the Ray Flash ringflash adapter and that got me to pondering a photo project for the con of shooting the ringflash effect. I rented the fisheye from LensRentals.com and then found a way to use my less powerful 430 ex ii flash with the ringflash adapter, so that I still had the use of my regular flash on my main camera body. It was well received at the con, and was a fun project overall. I shot about 650 pictures, but narrowed down the final collection to 400 images. The plan is to gather all of these into one large collage that I will take to the con with me next year and get as many of the people in it to sign it. Here is a picture of what it looked like when I was using the ring courtesy of Steve.
When shooting like this, there is no way to be shy, as it works best if you are shooting a few inches from the subject’s face. You can also have them hold the ring or reach into it to give things a 3d perspective. This is especially fun when approaching complete strangers. I found myself taking a regular picture and then showing the screen on my camera with the ringflash and explained what I was about to do, and when following this process, I didn’t have anyone say no to having their picture taken.
Here are a couple of samples.
The rest of the pictures can be seen at
http://www.dwrd.net/photography/galleries/dragoncon-2011-jarvie-window/
