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Bill Pador > An Erie Double Exposure
Bill Pador > SIDE NOTE: *6/6/08 Several of my bear image's will be published in the local news paper. I just received a call from the editor & they want these photos for a bear article they will run. It's always nice to be published locally to get some press coverage* BINGO ! I've been after great bear shots for a while now and I FINALLY got them Today ! Just about an hour ago my oldest daughter phoned me to pick her up from an after school activity. I had been working a set of photos from a party I shot last week and needless to say I was not happy about having to leave the studio. So as I always do i grabbed my D300 which originally had my Tamron 90mm Di Macro lens attached which I was going to leave on it. Something told me to swap it out for my Nikkor 18-200mm VR so I opened my gear bag and swapped lenses. I am SO glad I did because while leaving the parking lot of the high school I turned the car onto the main road and looked at a tiny lake located 10' off the road and low & behold this GIANT 300+ lb. Black Bear was at the back of the lake approaching some benches. I just charged the batteries in my MB-D10 pack and started cranking off 8 fps on this beast. Having lived in this area for 12+ years I have NEVER seen a bear THIS BIG before and especially one that had no ear tags yet. Needless to say I have a ton of images to go through but I figured I would post a few in my POTD gallery real quick for you to enjoy. I was able to get within 30' of this guy to take the close ups and he never made any aggressive moves toward me thank goodness. What a beautiful creature I must say and I had never been this close to a bear before. I did stay in the door way of my car just in case I had to make a hasty retreat but he was well mannered and just continued to stare at me as much as I was him. He was actually a well mannered model, better then some people I have to deal with LOL. So I hope you enjoy my bear story and images, I'll post a few more once I go through them to get different angles of this beautiful example of nature at it's best ! UPDATE: The Complete Set of Bear Images can be seen in my ANIMAL Gallery BY CLICKING HERE
Bill Pador > "OCEAN LILLY" I really like this composition of an Iris covered with water drops from the evening rain. I shot this from a low angle upwards. To me it looked similar to something you would see on an ocean reef with the small yellow & white spine like creatures that live on them and sway with the ocean tide. If you look closely there is a larger water drop embedded in the spines which spread them apart to give a more fuller effect to the flowers center. The deep colored veins that run the length of the pedal also gave this shot some nice color contrast & depth. Now I'm just waiting for an ocean creature to pop it's head out of the cave in the back LOL
Bill Pador > Last night was food shopping time so I found these in the fridge today. There not the quality I would use for a food ad but I did with what I had. They were shot using a single over head light slightly forward and then processed using a blue graduated filter over the blueberries to darken then to bring attention to the strawberries. A simple frame in & slightly wider out was applied for the finish. Shot with Tripod mounted Tamron 90mm Di f/2.8 macro using settings of: Shutter: 1/4 sec. AP: f/36 ISO 1000 WB: Cool White Fluorescent
Bill Pador > "THE STEAMING TEA POT" Inspired by an image by "Kre8ive" I wanted to attempt to catch the steam shooting out of my tea pot. Set up was simple by placing a reflective black poster board sheet behind the pot. I then took a small LED flash light leaned upward from the counter using a spice jar and aimed the light directly into the steam. The tea pot is lit using available sun light coming through the back door into the kitchen. Tripod mounted I used a slow shutter speed of 10/16 sec. @ f/10 ISO 1000 to capture the full steam path. In Post I created a B&W layer and then painted over the steam to allow it's color through and gave the tea pot a soft focus effect & finished with the frame. Thanks to "Kre8ive" for the inspiration for this image!
Bill Pador > Not knowing what I was going to do for my POTD shot tonight mother nature helped me make my decision by creating a small lightning storm for me to shoot. I went out to my back deck, set up for a 20 second shot @ f/11 ISO 800 and just kept pressing the shutter button every 20 sec. I was able to grab 2 really good shots in 30 min. or so while hanging out in the rain with my umbrella over my gear. (my neighbor yelled to me that I was crazy go inside LOL) but I had to get the shoot, a photographers last words right! Shooting weather is not my fortee but I've been trying to get a decent lightining shot for a few years, it's about time I was rewarded for my efforts and just by luck I came out of my studio office to grab a smoke out side & stretch my legs. If you look dead center you can see the lightning bolt makes a hasty turn toward my neighbors satellite dish to ground itself. The photo has not been touch for the exception of a small crop on the right side of some dead space. This is imgae 1 of 2, check out the Other Lightning Photo by Clicking Here
Bill Pador > "The HORSE TRAIN" (Limited Edition Print Available) Well looks like I had a 'HAPPY ACCIDENT' today. This is my version of a HORSE TRAIN LOL. I didn't realize I had this shot until I got into the dark room and when I saw it I said "Wow that is so cool looking, I could do a lot with this shot". The illusion of a 2 bodied horse with 1 head. This is NOT a Photo Shop trick, other then some color mapping, curves adjustment, selective dodging & burning, the selective coloring to let the natural eye color show and framing not much else has been done to this image. The second horse was following so closely as they walked toward me and he must have dipped his head right at the moment I fired the shutter it just happened that way. It's always nice to see something in the dark room you didn't know you captured and I just call them Happy Accidents (which I THINK I stole from the famous oil painter BOB ROSS *RIP*) The horses are actually different shades of brown so in color the effect just didn't do it justice but when I applied my own custom filter which is a mixture of a Black & White effect and a brownish AGED effect it really set the capture off to what I was looking for. I only use this effect on certain photos but I'm going to start using it more as it is pretty much one of my signature looks and I really like the results on the right image, this is a prime example of one of them. As always comments are welcome, I'm really interested in how my fellow artists & the general public like this one! Thanks for looking ~Bill~ NOTE: I will have the larger full high resolution version of this image available in my ANIMAL Gallery for print sales along with a Limited Signed Edition in my soon to be created Fine Art Gallery limited to just 15 artist signed Prints
Bill Pador > "MIDNIGHT LILLY" -Looks Great Enlarged- I Shot this Lilly tonight at my best friends house, The original was a beautiful image itself but I wanted to do something a little different then the usual FLOWER Image. So off I went into CS3 to work a little of my magic. I did most of the post using Nik Color Efex 3 filters by first bringing a grad filter into play, followed by some contrast adjustments and then a Midnight filter to give it the look of being shot late at night. Then a small amount of unsharp mask & then finished with a purple colored circular frame which I blended into the corners ever so slightly to highlight just the corners and enhance the end of the pedals and then enlarged the canvas with the square frame colors. *(Be sure to click on the image to enlargen it)* This is NOT a macro image but was actually shot with my Nikkor 18-200 VR lens since i didn't have my macro with me. It was shot hand held using: Nikon D300 LENS: Nikkor 18-200mm VR Shutter Speed 1/200 AP- f/20 ISO 1000 Focal Length 112mm Standing about 4' away from the bush and shot from an angle below the flower upwards. I'm so Happy the way this turned out I think it will be going in my Portfolio, What do you think? ~Thanks for looking - Bill~ *If you like this image please hover over it and click ion the THUMBS UP icon so it becomes a Popular Photo on my site!
Bill Pador > Shot while waiting to go Blues Fishing in Belmar NJ. I had just turned into the parking lot and got stuck waiting for a guy to launch his boat when I saw the sun coming up over the new Rt. 35 bridge. I waited for a few minutes until it cleared the bridge and stated firing away. I love the orange glow it cast off the water and the slight lens flair I was able to capture even though I had my circular polarizer mounted. Without it I wouldn't have managed this shot as the sun was too powerful and would have flooded the sensor and caused the shot to be over exposed.
An Erie Double Exposure
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An Erie Double Exposure
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