On Sunday, August 29th, I had the pleasure of hanging out with ShootMiami at the FARA car races in the Homestead Speedway. This is my first time photographing a car race and I can say that it was hard… Not a little hard, but EXTREMELY hard.
I have been preparing for this event for about 2 weeks now, and by that, I mean, reading about motor sport photography, specially, the awesome blog of our friend Scott Kelby. Overall, I am very happy with the photographs I came out with.
These are some of my all-time favorite from this event.
This little guy was trying to run away from me… well, maybe because I was pointing a 70-300 lens at it and a speedlight. If you were to point that thing at me, I’m sure, I would be running away too!
I found him about 10 inches from the ground, so you can imagine me laying on the floor with my tripod, hoping people would see me and don’t actually step on me or trip.
For some reason, this has become a tradition with me. Every year in the month of August, Fairchild Tropical Gardens has FREE admission to their grounds (Every Sunday of August) and of course, instead of me taking advantage of this, I always forget and go only once and usually it is the last Sunday of August.
After a quick edit of the photographs today, these two photographs jumped at me. Actually, both of them jumped at me the moment I released the shutter.
I am sure that you have had that moment. The moment when you chimp at your LCD and go… “Exactly what I wanted… This is a PRINT”… Right? Yes, I’m sure you’ve been there.
I’ve decided to send these two photographs to print to MPIX as my PhotoLab of choice. Both of these images will be printed in their incredible Metallic Paper.
Hope you enjoy the selection. If you like any of these prints and would like to own a copy of it for your wall, please feel free to let me know.
The folks at Craft&Vision are at it again, it seems that every time I get an email from them, another eBook has been released.
I mean honestly don’t think they sleep! I mean, seriously with the quality of their eBooks and the content of it… Who can really sleep without quality been jeopardized .
Andrew S. Gibson did a wonderful job explaining, detailing his post-processing and his whole thinking behind these 9 photographs presented here.
The Magic of Black & White – Part III, Nine Photos, takes us through nine gorgeous black and white images with the goal of teaching more advanced techniques to give our images more subtlety and power. Clearly taught in Photoshop, and 5 of the lessons in Photoshop Elements, Andrew takes us through Toning, Split Toningk, Exposure Blending, Textures, and the creation of Diptyches and Triptyches, all without losing sight of the idea that our work should be driven by intent with the goal of creating photographs that honour the Artist’s need for expression and the Geek’s need for excellence of craft. And all that without getting mired down – the examples and the illustrations Andrew provides compliment his clear teaching style and make this book a pleasure to read.
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I need to order more business cards and I thought it would be a great idea to get a different design.
I have always done my own design and to be honest, I’m getting sick of my own designs so maybe if I have few people designing and giving me choices, it will be better and I can probably keep those for a longer period of time. The winner of this contest will receive a 9×12 Metallic Print of their choice from my Facebook Page
So in order to do this, I have decided to make this a contest.
This is how the contest works:
Create your Photography business card design and submit it to ray@raymedphotography.com by 08/31/2010
I will select a winner based on concept and design by 9/6/2010
Once the winner is chosen, the winner can choose their selection of image from my Facebook Page
I hope you take part of this contest and I can’t wait to see the designs.
I have seen this photograph in my head millions of times, but have never being able to produce. Maybe because I never really went out there to look for it or maybe because I was waiting for the photograph to find me.
This time as many times in my photography, the photograph found me. I wasn’t looking for it, in fact, I was on vacation walking along the beach when I saw it and I just had that little bell in my head go off <DING!>. Grabbed my camera and made 2, yes only 2 exposures to get it.
The fact that I’ve had this photograph in my head for so long, it was just easy to make, I knew how I wanted it to be composed and even how I wanted it to be treated in post-production.
