Thursday, January 14, 2010

Late night @ the San Francisco Airport

After a wonderful visit to see my parents, do an engagement session (that will be blogged about soon) and hang out with my best friend in San Jose, CA, I was hanging out at the airport for me redeye flight back to New York. Well, my flight was delayed for over an hour and so what should a photographer do with extra down time?

That's right! Take pictures! So I put attached my Canon Super Ultra Wide 16-35 f/2.8L lens onto my Canon 5D Mark II camera and played around a bit. I really wanted to play with some long exposures and so I set my camera to TV mode at 30 seconds, lowered my ISO to 100 and increased my exposure compensation to +1 and then snapped away.

This first picture was completely by accident. As I was adjusting my settings, I hit the shutter and started moving the camera all around waiting for the 30 seconds to end. Afterwards, I looked at my LCD and was quite pleased with the results! I love accidental photography. I believe it is my specialty! :)



For the last picture, I used the same settings and I set my camera down on the moving walkway. I was very careful though to not allow my camera strap to get sucked into the creases of the walkway because that would have been uber embarrassing, right? I really really like how this one. Love the stillness + movement all wrapped into one photograph.



Lessons of the day for all of you photographers: 1) always have your camera and 2) try to avoid taking pictures from the typical vantage point (i.e. standing up straight with camera to face) for those creative shots!





6 comments:

  1. Chris, those pics are awesome. I wish you could sprinkle a little of your talent on me.

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  2. That second shot on the moving walkway is WAY cool. I always get on them and think of the cool motion blur I could do, but I'm always scared some TSA guy is gonna run out of nowhere and tackle me when I pull out my camera. Just gonna have to do it lol. Great stuff!

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  3. yeah, second shot is way bad ass! love it! good thinking!

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  4. as always, i adore these shots!!! in my "time off" before i get married, i'm working hard to get back to the non-portrait style of photography and enjoy the creative obsession which started me on this journey!!

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  5. thanks all! appreciate the love! When taking this shot, I was trying to be as in conspicuous as possible for the very reason Chris mentioned! I didn't want to be stripped searched by TSA, FBI, US Marshals, etc! Thankfully, it was late enough that too many people weren't around to see what I was doing :)

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