365/65 – Looking Out, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

…at a beautiful day.
I went out for a short walk with my camera today. When I was done I stopped in a shop nearby and saw this. It was my favorite of the bunch. I have found that it’s important to be as aware of my surroundings as I can. This has happened before. I find the best shot after I’m done with the planned shots.

365/64 – Black and White with Snoot, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

First of all I am going back in time with the numbering here as I have some how gotten off track. Since most of these go to my blog it seems to be a bit messy changing the name later so now I am back to the right number of shots, 64.
After listening to an all about flash podcast by lensflare35 and the Digital Experience group I wanted to try my honl snoot for the back lighting. I guess it turned out OK (but not great).
So here is the lighting:
Canon 430EX II high camera right fired @ 1/8 power through the shoot-thru umbrella with the RadioPopper JrX.
Vivitar @ 1/4 power fired with the Sonia optical slave through a Honl snoot. Post processing is with Silver Efex Pro.

365/65 – Down to Business, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Today was just a photo of this cool dude. Sorry to say this was a quick photo with a special purpose and I just left the 430EX II on camera. Bad on me.

365/64 – Backlight Heavy, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Just as the title implies this was more light from behind. I was working on getting separation. I should have had my head more into the frame to see the full effect but it’s a start.
The key light is the 430EX II high camera right fired at 1/16 power with the RadioPopper JrX and the Vivitar fired at 1/2 behind subject left with optical slave.
Also a little post processing with Topaz Adjust to try and make me look a little better.

365/63 – Scavenger Hunt Work, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Today I was out with my team members to start our part of the spring scavenger hunt. It is all about portraits and we were working on a silhouette today. We had to up the shutter with the sun behind the subject. I tried with 1/1000 and f11 but that was not the right setting though in ACR I can pretty much make it work almost right.

365/62 – Emergency, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Another view from the office window at a sad event that fortunately you can’t really see. A pedestrian was struck by a train today and later died. He was wearing a headset so maybe that was a factor.

3656/61 – March Meeting, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Just a quick one of our March meeting. Everyone is listening to a talk by one of the top local photogs on panos and hdr.

365/60 – Downtown Promenade, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

Got out for a short walk with the camera today. The sky was dark and stormy looking but no rain.
I used Silver Efex Pro in the post-processing to get this great holga looking photo.

365/59 – Stormy Weather, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

It has been and is still trying to be a nice winter with a fair amount of rain. Let’s hope it makes it to the top.

365/58 – MoleSkin, originally uploaded by ronWLS.

A little swag from the Photoshop party. It’s come in quite handy. I’m way too tired to be doing this now so good night!