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Wow! This guy took two pictures per day (from opposite angles) of himself for 17 years. He had his head at an angle consistent with the orbit of the earth around the sun. (If he would be the sun, the left picture has his right ear pointed at the earth and the right picture has his left ear pointed at the earth.)
Can you imagine what it was like to have been photographing a wedding in Sichuan, China when 7.9 earthquake hit and shakes for three minutes with the entire church crashing down?
Dru Lattin and Lisl Graber were a brave young couple that decided to let me shoot their wedding… by myself! Dru is a good friend who was with me at both IGo and SMBI. My flight was canceled and I got to the wedding about 15-20 minutes before it started. They pulled someone else–Josh–aside who had an XTi and asked him to shoot the portraits beforehand. Josh (and Brittney, who used his camera) also shot throughout the wedding then, which was a relief to me: to have someone else shooting in case I missed stuff. I had borrowed Sommers’ flash bracket and Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L. An unfortunate thing was that I didn’t understand the interplay between AV mode and flash. I used AV some of the time to get full use of that wonderful 2.8 and thus set my shutter speed to dismal speeds, messing up a number of pictures. I now understand how AV mode works with flash and I sort of understand the logic behind making AV work that way, but not totally, and I’m still bitter. Anyway, enough story and photographic technicalities, and let me show you the pics. (All pictures were taken by me, except where noted otherwise.)
I need lots and lots of critique from photographer and non-photographer alike.
This picture was taken by Josh, but I take half credit for it because of the extensive post-processing I did on it. The background was quite busy and detracting.
Note from a webdesigner: You know you’ve been Photoshopping pixel by pixel for too long when blue spots appear in your espresso that you absolutely know are not there in real life. Then you realize you’ve been spending too much time working with photography when your first thought is that to correct the chromatic aberration you are experiencing, you need to use a lens that doesn’t have so wide an angle and simply stitch the photos together digitally.
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