October 15, 2013 – Year long photo challenge
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January 5, 2013 – On a date
This afternoon I captured this moment in the doorway of Rachel’s home of her trying “The Hat” on Noah, her date for the Mistletoe Dance. I liked the light in the doorway and the car waiting in the background and the moment where they were messing around with the hat. I wish I had turned off the tungsten light overhead as it caused problems with getting a good color balance as it caused a bit more of a yellow cast than I would have preferred. I took care of most of it in post processing by using saturation and color adjustments. Always pay attention to different types of lighting when shooting your pictures, or you’ll have to spend a little more time in post processing.
January 5, 2013
January 4, 2012 – Shopping with friends
Today Rachel and friends were heading out to go shopping and I thought it was a perfect opportunity for a picture involving “The Hat.” The fine folks at a local our local “Classy Closet” on North Seminary Street I was able to capture the three of them in front of a mirror, which always provides for fun of girls of all ages. Later today I’ll be shooting the Day 5 photo which involves her and a friend getting ready to head off to a dance.
January 4, 2012
Rachel and The Red Hat
It’s been a couple days since I’ve posted so here’s the latest pictures of Rachel and The Hat I’ve been shooting as part of my year long photography challenge series this year. She’s been a joy to work with and I look forward to the rest of the month to see what we can capture.
January 3, 2013
January 2, 2013
A new year long photography challenge
Well, I’ve decided to participate in another year-long photography challenge. I actually signed up for two, but our local photography club has decided to do one again this year and as the club’s president I have decided to participate in it alone.
I always like doing year-long challenges as it helps keep the creative juices flowing and makes me get outside my box when it comes to my photography. Working for a newspaper kinda keeps me in a different type of photography mode with more documentary and photojournalism type of images. While doing these challenges I can use the same kind of style of photography, but I can also be a little more creative and liberal when it comes to the type of photograph I produce vs something for the newspaper.
The Challenge will be broken down into 12 monthly challenges with a different theme for each month. The first month’s theme is “The Hat.” The object is to photograph the same hat everyday for the month of January. Rachel, the daughter of a friend from work, Tonya Rickard is graciously allowing me to photograph her each day of the month wearing the hat you see here. I’m excited to see where we go and what portraits or pictures we can capture as the month goes on.
Rachel and “The Hat” – Photography by Jim Pearson
When one picture decays then you find another!
Saturday I set out around noon to shoot a picture for the West Kentucky Photography Club’s weekly challenge, which had a theme of “Decay.”
Earlier in the week I had passed this house close to Lake Malone in Dawson Springs, Ky that was literately falling in from the roof down. There wasn’t a place on the road to pull off and at the time I was looking for a feature photo for the newspaper I work for and decided to log it into my brain for a return visit as I thought it would work out well as an HDR for the challenge.
Saturday I decided to head back down to the house and ask the people that lived next door to it if it’d be alright to take a picture of it. Now, I normally don’t feel the need to ask, but in this case I had to park in their driveway as there wasn’t anywhere to pull over on the road. With that being said, as you can tell this picture isn’t the house, but sometimes things work out the way they’re supposed to.
I caught the guy that lives next do getting out of his truck in the driveway. After introducing myself and talking about the weather briefly I asked him about taking a picture of the house and what it was for and he said it belonged to his brother and he couldn’t give me permission to shoot a picture of it and he’d rather I didn’t. So, that was the end of that picture and the beginning of the one you see on the page here.
I was disappointed and decided to head on down the road to Princeton, Ky looking for something else to fill the challenge and when it was all said and done I ended up in Paducah, Ky. I’m not sure just how the idea of this picture of a graveyard popped into my head, but again things just work that way sometimes. Now, I agree that you can’t see the decay that is going on, or has gone on, in this picture, but there’s not a single person that can’t imagine it, so it worked and I ended up liking this picture much better than I think the other would have turned out. Plus, I got 8-10 other really nice images I liked out of the trip, many of which are now available for purchase in my online sales store.
The picture is a High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo taken with my Nikon D700 with a series of three separate exposures, one normal, one over by a stop and one under by a stop. The lens of choice was my Nikkor 18mm f/2.8 and I hand held the camera for the three exposures.
The three images were combined using Photomatix Pro and then brought into Photoshop CS5 for final processing using Topaz Adjust for this end result.
If you’d like to learn more about HDR Photography I’d suggest you visit Stuck In Customs.
So, when you set out to shoot a picture for your project always keep your eye and mind open to other possibilities, because you never know you might get a better picture.
Till next time – keep clickin!