Park Life

This guy was taking a nap at City Hall Park in NYC, lower Manhattan. It made me sleepy just looking at him.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

Aperture: f/5

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 235mm

Brooklyn

View of Brooklyn from the Seaport Pier in Manhattan's Financial District.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/13 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

ISO: 640

Lens: Canon EF 24/70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Off To Work

Took a snap shot of this guy early in the morning headed to work. He doesn't look too happy to be up this time of the day. Oh well, everybody has to earn a dollar.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

ISO: 800

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm

40D

Still bored in my hotel room and still playing with lighting.

Strobist: 580EX set on 30D fired at 1/8 power set to master. 430EX camera left set to full power fired through umbrella set to slave. 430EX camera right even with subject fired with red gel set to 1/4 power.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

Aperture: f/22

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 45mm

Solitude

Small park in Bristol, PA just outside of Philladelphia. My company has an office there and I was sent there for some training required by our government contracts. I've seen this park before while visiting this office but never had a chance to visit it. We got some snow last night and I figured that it would be a perfect time to go visit this park.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/320 sec

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 200

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm

Golden Child

Golden Child, originally uploaded by Rehuel.

Visited Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, NY. I highly recommend it if you are in the area. This was one of many fields protected on the property. You will also find a lot of nature waiting for their pictures to be taken.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec

Aperture: f/6.3

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm

Kiss of Light

Well if you guys can't figure it out, I took a week off of work to come home. I have turned my son into a model because that's what abusive photographer fathers do.

Strobist: Speedlite 580EX camera left on stand via off-shoe cord directly infront of subject. 1/32 power and manual zoom to 80.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 1/25 sec

Aperture: f/16

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Drink of Life

Drink of Life, originally uploaded by Rehuel.

This is another attempt by me at playing around with lighting. Placed subject in Photek Light Tent with black background. Canon 30D on tripod, Speedlite 580EX mounted on lightstand with off-shoe cord above camera firing down on top of light tent set to 1/32 power and used as master. Two Speedlite 430EX's, one camera left and one camera right, fired wirelessly by 580EX set to 1/64 power for fill.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 32mm

Times Square

This was the first time I visited NYC and of course, had to go to Times Square. This city really is larger than life. What really surprises me is that this shot was hand held. Everyone gets lucky from time to time.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

Aperture: f/4

ISO: 640

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Structurally Sound

Structurally Sound, originally uploaded by Rehuel.

This is an old Leather Tannery in Johnstown, NY which is near Albany. We thought that this building would come down rather easy by looking at its outward appearance. Boy were we wrong, it was tougher then some of the new buildings i've messed with.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec

Aperture: f/11

ISO: 160

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Niagara Falls

Went to Niagara Falls as I was told that they use colored lights to light up the falls and I wanted to play with some long exposure shots. I was very happy with the outcome aren't you?

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 24 seconds (bulb)

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Can't Fight Time

Found this abandoned old truck at one of my job sites in Picayune, MS (don't look it up, you won't find it). It was parked there many moons ago and just left there and nature took it's course all over it.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Classic Yellow

Taken at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. I loved the bright yellow color of the car and when I saw the see through vents, I felt like I just had to take the shot.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/2500 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/28L USM @ 66mm

Tiger

This picture was taken at Big Cat Rescue which is the biggest in the country. It is located in North Tampa, FL. Check them out at www.bigcatrescue.org

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Priority: 1/640 sec

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm

Lowrider Magazine Car Show 2007

This was taken at the Lowrider Magazine Super Show in 2007. The show was held at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, FL.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/50 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

ISO: 400

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm

Callaway X18

Golf and photography, today was a good day... I didn't have a good picture of my golf clubs so I decided to play around and take some pics. Can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

Aperture: f/5

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 150mm

Clouded Leopard

This was taken at Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, FL. I've been wanting to go there and photograph for a while and finally took the time to do it. I'm glad I did as most people seem to really enjoy this shot.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec

Aperture: f/5

ISO: 160

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 200mm

Jobo's Beach

Local fisherman found in Jobo's Beach which is located in Isabela, Puerto Rico, North-West side of the island.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/800 sec

Aperture: f/4.5

ISO: 160

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 100mm

Ruins

This was taken while I was on Aguadilla, PR for vacation. These are some ruins at Ramey Air Force Base which is now open to the public so we can enjoy the beaches.

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Priority: 1/2500 sec

Aperture: f/5

ISO: 160

Lens: Canon EFs 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm

Cabo Rojo Lighthouse

I took a vacation to visit my family in Puerto Rico. My uncle and cousins are photographers as well and I told them that I wanted to run around the island taking pictures of points of interest. This was taken in Cabo Rojo which is located on the West side of the island (West Side!!!!!).

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speed: 1/3200 sec

Aperture: f/5

ISO: 160

Lens: Canon EFs 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm

Intense

This is at the USF vs Pittsburgh game in 2006. I just completely fell in love with shooting football and got to do it a few times. This was right after USF lost to Pittsburgh and I wanted to capture the expression on their faces as they walked to the locker room. I think that I succeeded don't you?

Canon EOS 30D

Shutter Speet: 1/1600 sec

Aperture: f/6.3

ISO: 400

Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm

Taking care of business

That's me on the right at my regular day job. I work for an environmental remediation firm and get to play with hazardous chemicals all day long. I can't complain, it pays for all of the camera gear. This is part of the clean up activities for Hurricane Katrina.

Canon EOS Rebel XT

Shutter Speed: 1/320 sec

Aperture: f/14

ISO: 400

Lens: Canon EFs 18-55mm @ 50mm

Looking Into Brooklyn

I was granted permission to go to the roof of the hotel I am staying in while in NYC so I decided to set up the tripod and try a nice long exposure shot. Very happy with the results and will be trying more from different angles in the future.

Canon EOS 40D

Shutter Speed: 13 seconds (bulb)

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 100

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L @ 24mm

Low Light Photography

Today's DSLR's have some serious technology built into them and their performance is amazing. One of the big improvements I see is in high ISO performance. This gives the photographer the ability to shoot in low light conditions with out the need of a flash. I took this as an opportunity to experiment with my camera and push it to the limits. In my opinion, it is very important to know and understand your equipment and its capabilities because you never know where your next shoot is going to be. You have to be able to get that oh so important shot when it counts and the sun is going down. You have to quickly adjust your settings in order to properly expose your subject and cranking up that ISO is just one way to do it. You don't want to tell your client that you couldn't get the shot that they were looking for or that it didn't come out right because you lost some much needed light. Sure, most can be fixed with a little PP but personally, I like to get the shot I want in-camera. I want to do as little post processing as possible as it can be very time consuming and lets face it, time is money. For this shot, I was waiting for the subway train to come and decided to take the shot with out the use of flash. Now, anybody that has been in the subway knows that the light isn't the greatest down there. I cranked the ISO to 800 (I normally don't like going past 200 if I can help it but felt the need to push the camera) opened the aperture all the way (f/2.8 on Canon's 24-70L lens) and pulled the trigger while the train was slowing down. As you can see, the noise performance is great and honestly I could've cranked the ISO a lot more by looking at the results. I was able to set the shutter speed fast enough (1/160) to stop the train's movemet and get a decent exposure under these low light conditions which makes me love my camera even more. All in all, the moral of this story is to experiment with your equipment and learn to push it so it helps you get the shot that the other photographers missed.