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May 12, 2014

District Fete – Pentagon City Fashion Show

Brooke Ryan hosting the Pentagon City Fashion Show - ©TimeLine Media

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The photos from today’s post were from a fashion show produced by District Fete at the Pentagon City Mall as part of the “Indulge” event for mothers as a celebration of Mother’s Day. I have worked with them before on other shows, and they always have a professional setup with stylists, makeup artists, and models. On this occasion there were many professionals working hard to put on a good show. Consequently, I tried my best to make good representative photos of the looks on display.

Pentagon City Fashion Show - ©TimeLine Media — Pentagon City Fashion Show – ©TimeLine Media

Since I had lots of space at the front of the stage, I setup two flashes pointed towards the runway. Many of these shows are photographed with available light. This works when there is a lot of bright constant light setup. For this show, there was no additional light from the ambient light of the mall interior. The addition of the flashes helps to make the colors really stay true to the clothing, and makes for a much cleaner image.

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The show was hosted by Brooke Ryan from Mix 107.3. She kept the show flowing with description of all the looks as the models walked the runway. The models for this show did a great job showing the fashions, giving me lots of opportunities and different poses with each outfit. I had to adjust my shooting position between shows since I was a bit close to get a good composition without having distracting backgrounds to take away from the models.

For the second show, I did have a good shooting position. I was able to keep the models in front of the mostly black mall banner. This really helped to pop them out from the background, and it made it easier for me to keep them in frame. It was also easier for them to see me, and look right into the lens as they walked.

Thanks again to District Fete for producing such a professional showcase! I hope to work with them again on future projects. Pentagon City Mall is a great venue to host fashion shows with their beautiful open spaces and many stores available to pick up the fashions on display. I would enjoy the opportunity to make more photos there again.

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April 10, 2014

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Photo Spot Check – Tech Thursday

Air Force Memorial, Arlington, VA - ©TimeLine Media

Ever go through a series of photos to see a spot at the same place on every image? Digital cameras have made so many advancements in convenience, and accessibility to photographers. Just going around the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC to look at cherry blossoms, you can see the impact. I can remember going walking around the blooms when I was younger with many cameras around, but not nearly to the extent that there is today.

Shooting with film, however, did have some advantages. One of them was that the “sensor” was cleaned EVERY single time a photo was taken. The film was nicely protected in a hard plastic cartridge, fed through a tiny slit that wiped the sides of the film clean before it was placed in position to be exposed. After an exposure was made on the frame, it was moved out of the way as a new part of the film was moved into place – there was no reuse of the same section – unless you had a failure of your mechanical system, or were very advanced in your multiple-exposure plan for your image.

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When taking landscape or other travel images where you are exposing large parts of clouds or open sky, digital cameras will show you spots where there is dust on your sensor. When shooting landscapes from a tripod, you have the luxury of using low ISO and a stopped-down aperture. Using these settings, it will be very evident where dust spots are on your sensor. When the using more open apertures, the dust will be too close to the sensor to be seen in your images. Regularly shooting at f/4 or below, you may not notice that you sensor even has any dust!

This image looked perfectly fine at the time I took it at the Air Force Memorial. When I brought it into Lightroom and took a look at the images at 100%, there were so many spots. Here is a screen shot of the image where each circle is a point from the “Spot Removal” tool. I have made them larger if you would like to download and see how bad this case was.

Spot Removal tool in Adobe Lightroom - ©TimeLine Media — Spot Removal tool in Adobe Lightroom – ©TimeLine Media

Close up of spots from sensor dust - ©TimeLine Media — Close up of spots from sensor dust – ©TimeLine Media

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April 8, 2014

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Air Force Memorial – Early Morning Photos

Air Force Memorial - single exposure - ©TimeLine Media

With announcements that the cherry blossoms are very close to peak bloom, I am anxious to go out to the Tidal Basin in downtown DC to make some springtime photos! Until I get out there, I am looking back on other recent photo walks around town. The images on this post was from a particularly COLD morning at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. I remember how numb my hands and face was after this shoot even though I was bundled up! At least one advantage is the cold keeps the crowds away, so I was mostly alone at the Memorial except for a group of school kids that quickly took some photos, then hurried back to their waiting motor coach.

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From this high overlook, you have a panoramic view of the Pentagon, and Washington, DC below. This also brings the high winds which makes trying to keep the camera steady difficult. A tripod was definitely necessary this morning, and it allowed me to slow down and really position the camera right where it needed to be for these photos. With the tripod steadying the gear, I also took multiple varying exposure for making high dynamic range photos. Here is a comparison of a single exposure with the metered settings, and an HDR image of 7 combined images, 1 stop apart.

Air Force Memorial HDR - ©TimeLine Media — Air Force Memorial HDR – ©TimeLine Media

The edited single exposure is preferable to me. The dark part of the sky ends up in a different area in the HDR image, and I find it more pleasing in the single image. With HDR images, they bring out more of the shadow areas which did not come out as well in the HDR as a default. I could edit this more in Photoshop, but the single image was pleasing as it is, so I have decide to just keep that version instead of investing more time in the HDR file.

Air Force Memorial with sunburst - ©TimeLine Media — Air Force Memorial with sunburst – ©TimeLine Media

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