14. May 2012 by Friedhelm.

I was working on some macro shots in my backyard this morning when I discovered that Little Bear, our six month old cat was playing in the water fountain. I took a bunch of shots and gave her a bath inside. She did not like that at all!

Always be ready to photograph something totally unexpected!

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12. April 2012 by Friedhelm.

While I was walking along the beach looking for high waves I met a group of young people. They asked me to photograph them and i asked them to jump into the air. They were more than happy to do it for me and I snapped a few shots.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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12. March 2012 by Friedhelm.

I photographed this image at the Celtic fair in Sonora, CA. The best way to photograph those kind of images is to pre-focus on the ring, set the camera on a higher ISO setting and open up the lens to get a 1/1000sec. or better exposure time. Then you set the camera on multiple high speed exposure mode and look with on eye through the camera and the other eye watch the rider coming. right before he gets into the frame press the shutter and hold it down. You will get several exposures and at least one of them will be great.

Enjoy and keep on photographing.

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11. March 2012 by David.

Here is another of my favorites from the ‘Plastics’ series.

Everyone can pretty much guess what this is. Yup, just a bunch of cd’s. When I started I thought that they all would have the same hue. I was surprised to see a couple of them had a little color to them.

Keep clicking

Dave

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1. March 2012 by Friedhelm.

Walking downtown Merced, CA I found three cents glued into a wall surrounded by graffiti. Of course I had to photograph it.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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24. December 2011 by David.

I was playing with my light box, thinking about what would reflect bottom sourced light.

To create this image I used a extension tube attached to my 28-135mm lens and set the lens wide open at f36 to get as deep a depth of field as possible.  I purposely used the background fabric to add  some texture to the blank lower left and upper right. Now it goes back on the tree.

Keep clicking

Dave

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23. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I wish everybody a Merry Christmas with an image I shot in January in Barcelona, Spain. This is the Magic Fountain at MontJuic where we saw magnificent light arrangements.

Enjoy and don’t forget to create many great images during the Holidays.

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18. December 2011 by David.

While wrapping some gifts…

This is a very dynamic  image. Your eye can’ find a single focus point so it wanders all across the photograph.

Keep clicking

Dave

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18. December 2011 by David.

I came across some paint and crayons and thought hmmm…..

I like the vibrancy of the  primary colors. Not much subtlety here. Add a grunge border and there you go.

Keep clicking

Dave

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13. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

Last night I was working on my photo project for the week ( see www.passionforphotos.com) photographing water droplets as they were falling down. I decided to experiment a little bit.  I tried to photograph a water droplet falling on a burning candle. It took a little bit of patience but after a while I got this image. Camera setting: 180mm macro lens, f16, 1/200sec. (flash) at ISO 100.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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