Archive for the ‘stills’ Category

A random fountain near the Duomo in Milan. I forgot what I did to get this vintage/faded/rainbow colored look, but I really like it.
Exposure: 1/320s
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 320

“Make way for the Queen’s Army!” Or so they say, if you get in their way. Incidentally, this guy doesn’t look like he’s standing very straight.
Exposure: 1/400s
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 138 mm
ISO Speed: 160

Diplomatic

In: balex| stills

4 Jun 2009

Cha-ching! I found the diplomas! Of course, any UVA grad knows these are all fake.
Exposure: 1/320s
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 250

Confer

In: balex| stills

2 Jun 2009

A shot taken from Old Cabell hall on The Lawn at UVA, right before the conferring of comm school degrees at my brother’s graduation. Class of 2009!
Exposure: 1/250s
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 78 mm
ISO Speed: 250

Lancer Evolution

In: balex| stills

7 Apr 2009

Some “product shots” of a 1:18 model of my car. This was also using a slave flash and some fill light - can you guess in which direction the main light was coming from? It should be pretty obvious!
Also, I realized this after the fact, but never take pictures of a white subject on [...]

Kon

In: balex| stills

3 Apr 2009

This is Kon, a character from Bleach. This shot took me about an hour before I got it to the point I liked it. I shot this using two flashes - one from behind him to create the rimlight effect, then one from the front, with a mirror off to the right to help with [...]

Full Manual

In: balex| stills

24 Mar 2009

My goal for this year is to move into full manual, 100% of the time. I’ve long been a fan of aperture and shutter priority modes, but with flash work you really do have to go full manual. ETTL for flash works great in unpredictable environments, but in a controlled situation nothing beats full manual. [...]

Hi again! I apologize for the slight hiatus.
The next few posts will be of aspiring musicians: Amanda Lee (left) and Joanne Kim (right). They are individual artists but are also good friends in real life. And here they decided to come together for a quick evening shoot! (We hastly took advantage of the ridiculous [...]

I promised some model wear for my next post. Well, here it is! Alex got some nice shots of women, so I thought I’d do the other side justice!
Haha, there is a point to this picture, though. Given the black box and dark background, I was able to set the contrast, saturation and [...]

I went to Richmond weeks ago and spent an hour inside the Plan 9 store in Cary Town. If you’re ever there, go check out their LPs in the fiery basement!


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  • balex: the vignetting works nicely in this pic, actually. nice touch up! [...]
  • balex: haha why is there an american flag?? [...]
  • balex: actually i didn't really do any NR on these. most of these are straight into photoshop and straight [...]
  • tofuninja: What did you use on this baby to reduce noise? Great shot... (as you can tell, workload is letting u [...]
  • balex: i vote for option b! or what you can do is use live view, frame the picture for them, and then tell [...]