Royal Oak Location Scouting

Later this week I have an engagement session to shoot in downtown Royal Oak and I wanted to see what this city had to offer photographically. This city has a lot of great features that will make for some great engagement shots, and I am very excited to see what we can come up with during the evening. I think I'll be using this park bench for one of the shots. Stay tuned....

7 Iron

7 Iron

This weeks photo assignment with Kevin from Kevin's Photography was the number 7. This has been by far the most difficult photo assignment yet. I took many pictures of things representing the number 7, and I dislike every one of them. This one came to me while on the golf course at Oakhurst country club this weekend. I shot a high score that day, but many of my shots were straight and had some distance.

Hit The Fence

Hit The Fence

Seems like most of my shots are taken at sunset these days, mainly because I'm currently a natural light photographer (That's another way of saying that I don't have an external flash.) I really enjoy the challenge of using available light to it's fullest, and here was one example of that. The sun was setting and the shadows from this fence were really great.

Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200

NOLA Seating

NOLA Seating

I'm cheating on my rules a bit with this shot due to travels this weekend. I took this photo less than two weeks ago on the river in New Orleans (NOLA is short for New Orleans Louisiana.) As I was taking it, I intended for it to be black and white. Upon review of the photo I think Sepia gives it just the right look. Iron work is amazing to shoot. Taken at a 70mm focal length with an F4. I feel like I could have increased the F-stop to an F8 or F9 to increase the depth of field. It was a bright sunshiny day, so ISO 200 did the trick.