I did a shoot at the REAL Flagship Store for a local promotion that will be going on shortly. The shot really brings the store to life and gives it a little attitude and a 3D look. I’m pretty excited on how this image turned out as it’s a bit of a different feel than what I have done in the past.
This evening I played with the Tilt Shift Lens. The sunset photos were taken off the VIP Deck at REAL over looking the Pamlico Sound.
The REAL BVI Photo Book showed up today! It’s the largest book I have had published. I must say it couldn’t have turned out any better! With 80 pages of gorgeous photos its will be a great keepsake from the British Virgin Islands. Pick up your copy today!
It was a rather chilly day with a brisk NW wind in Cape Hatteras, NC. I headed out for sunset to take pictures with the Tilt Shift Lens again this evening. This time I headed north to the Pea Island Nature Preserve. Pea Island is a really great place to visit, especially when all the birds are there. Its quite an incredible sight with thousands of birds.
This lens is really pretty fun to play with because you never really know what you’re going to get. There are so many different ways to change the controls over the lens that it is always something different.
As we finished up the shoot, we started to head back south, when we saw the moon rise from the horizon. I slammed on the brakes and I got out the big lens and took a couple photos of the moon rising.
I borrowed two lenses to test out this week. They arrived yesterday and I quickly put them to work. The two lens I received are the Canon EF 500mm /4.0L I.S. USM & EF TS-E 24mm /3.5L II. I have only briefly used these two lenses. I headed out for a 2 hour shoot this morning at sunrise. The Tilt Shift was the lens I was most interested in checking out. I have heard lots of talk on the web about these lenses and had to find out for myself.
What’s so cool about the Tilt Shift lens? The TS changes the perspective of the image. In addition, a regular lens with a small aperture gives you great depth of field, this lens does this and more, by changing the focal planes. This gives the images some crazy effects. One of the effect you get give the image a miniature feel:
After a great and fun morning shoot I meet up with Zack, Tommie and Julien for a very fun surf session at the pier. We surfed for a couple hours in the 45 degree air and the slightly chilly water, but with my killer O’Neill 5/4/3 Mutant wetsuit it was no problem. Mel took a couple photos while we were out there, including this one of me:
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Check out some of the action from the REAL BVI 2010 trip to the British Virgin Islands. I took the entire video with a Go Pro Surf HD video camera. The camera was great to just keep in my pocket while I wasn’t shooting stills, so I could share some of the adventure with you. For the full REAL BVI 2010 Session Report #2, REAL BVI 2010 Session Report #1.
I would like you all to check out Matt Lusk’s 2010 Calendar. It has some stellar images from the Outer Banks. Please check it out and support another local photographer.