16. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I photographed the Merced Movie Theatre from a small child’s perspective. I was literally laying on the ground using a super wide angle lens. Camera setting: 15mm focal length (full frame sensor), f11, 1/50sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy and sometimes it is good to see things from a different perspective!

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15. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I photographed this bouquet of tulips using a light tent with a black background. I decided to emphasise the lower left tulip. This gives the image a more dramatic feel. Camera setting: 55mm focal length, f2.8, 1/3sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy and have a great week.

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14. March 2010 by David.

I’ve been looking at this subject for some time now. Wondering if it would be anything.

It’s simply an old Underwood typewriter in front of my livingroom window with the morning sun coming through. I like the simplicity and the lines that cut through the background and add texture to a otherwise plain surface. I decided to leave the highlights on the mini blinds to enhance the textural feeling.

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Dave

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13. March 2010 by David.

The snow we get in the Valley this time of year is a little different from the stuff up in the mountains. First its not as cold and secondly it doesn’t come from clouds.

When the bees and almond trees are done with the blossoms the valley floor becomes a carpet of white and pink petals.

F5.4, 1/500sec, 90mm at ISO 200

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Dave

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12. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I photographed this bird yesterday on my daily exercise walk. I saw the bird first sitting on the fountain with a truck in the background. I decided to take my chances and walked around the bird until I found a contrasty natural background. One of my photography teachers always told me that the first consideration for a great image is the background. I follow his advice and I got rewarded with many great shots. Camera setting: focal length 200mm, f5.0, 1/800sec., ISO 200.

Enjoy and have a great day!

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11. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

David and I love to photograph weddings. One of the key point to successful wedding photography is the attention to detail. The couple (family) wants to remember key details of their most precious moments. The chances of missing “the moment” is significantly less when photographers work as a team. If you are planning to get married this year and need a photographer, please consider us. If time permits, we are willing to fly around the country. Email us: eye2eyephotostudio@ymail.com.

Enjoy the image and have a great day!

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10. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I purposely did not frame this image. This is not a portrait either even if it shows a beautiful young lady. It is a product shot. The main difference between a product shot and a portrait is that the portrait is a reflection of the personality of a human being. Everything in the composition to show the person. In a fashion shot the main focus is on the product. The composition needs to send a message: Buy this product and you will look as beautiful as this young lady.

Enjoy the image and think about the purpose of your image!

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9. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I visited many art exhibitions in my life and often I thought: “I could have done that!” The matter of reality, I did not do it. At some point I decided whenever I see something interesting I am going to photograph it right away. My eyes caught our old hair brush. It looked intriguing. I photographed it. That simple!

Enjoy and when you see something, photograph it. Never say to yourself: “I will come back later,” because it will not happen!

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8. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

Creating images that bring out fear, joy sadness compassion etc. out of the viewer are always a great challenge. I wanted to create an image that creates feelings of fear. I borrowed this old Turkish knife and put my camera of a tripod. I set the camera on manual focus and pre-focused the distance. I used f13 to give a good depth of field, 0,5 sec. expose time to capture the motion @ ISO 400. I used two umbrellas with permanent lights to create the reflection on the knife. The I took the first test shots to get the right angle for the reflection of the light on the knife. It took a little bit of patients and a number of try shots to get this image. The trick was to overexpose a little bit, hold the knife still in the final position and move the knife backwards during the exposure time to get the reflection of the light into the camera. During the post-production process I duplicated the image and inverted the second layer. Then I “played” a little bit in Photoshop to get the desired effect.

Enjoy the image and start experimenting!

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7. March 2010 by David.

I liked the contrast of the blossom in front with the out of focus orchard in the background.  While your main focus is the blossoms the background gives it context. Hope you enjoy. This was actually taken a couple of years ago with a point and shoot camera.

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Dave

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