Bill Pador > I caught this shadow of my car in the driveway and thought it was pretty cool to see the blue tint color of the safety glass being thrown on the snow. I converted the main image into a grainy B&W then brought the color of the glass back to enhance it's presents.

I GOT A NEW TOY: Hope everyone is having a great weekend, me I'm spending mine setting up my brand new Epson Artisan 800 photo printer! It uses the new Claria High Def pigment inks and let me tell you so far the images are printing with incredible color & detail and talk about BLAZING SPEED, a full border-less 5x7 with bleed takes less then 90 seconds and look better then lab prints. So far I'm loving it and plan on printing all afternoon some new stuff for my portfolio. Oh and try printing custom labels directly on CD/DVD too for some clients, how cool. UPDATE: I just found out that Best Buy (where I bought the printer) put it on sale today for $229, I paid $299 yesterday and they will refund $70 if I bring my receipt in - Very Cool !

The Fashion Show shoot went great on Friday night, my intern assistant Tim turned out to be quite an asset to me and was a fantastic worker & shooter. Not your normal lazy 17 yo teenager but worked his butt off and didn't have to be told much of anything, he just did it on his own. I will have no problem hiring him for future work and look forward to working with him again. I think he learned a lot and told me had had a lot of fun which is key!

~Bill~
Bill Pador > Photo of the Day Feb. '09 photo
Bill Pador > Photo of the Day Feb. '09 photo
Bill Pador > Photo of the Day Feb. '09 photo
Bill Pador > Photo of the Day Feb. '09 photo
Bill Pador > Another HAPPY ACCIDENT! I took this while driving last night and didn't see the awesome sun rays & lens flare coming through my sun roof until I looked at it in CS3 just now. Some small adjustments to levels & exposure were needed to lighten it up a bit so I could be seen clearly but that's about it.

"RECENT SPAM": I was wondering if anyone else is getting that SPAM left in your Dailies gallery comment area the past few days ? How aggravating to have to delete this junk every day. I hope SmugMug gets these guys under control before we get flooded with junk, I'm going to be making a complaint about it later tonight :(
Bill Pador > Thanks for visiting my alternate image gallery today, I just couldn't waist this one . This abstract reminded me of that car in the horror movie "CARRIE" for some reason as soon as I saw it, same shape and color and the ghosting effect from the slow shutter speed & no visible driver really put a chill in me when I saw it LOL. I THINK this was a JEEP SUV but I really can't swear on it. OK the movie "CARRIE" was from the early 80's I know, so I'm over 40 yes but so are a lot of you and this should bring back some good childhood memories for sure ;) Does it remind YOU of "CARRIE" too or is it just me ?

CORRECTION: Thank You LESLIE for pointing out that the car movie was was "CHRISTINE" and not Carrie !! That's definitely the one I was thinking of ;)

The image has no post at all besides being re-sized a bit smaller.
Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens @ 18mm
ISO 400
f/4.5
SS - 1/50 VR Normal engaged

My main POD image for today can be LOCATED HERE

~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Happy Mistake"
"seeing it bigger is better"
I felt it was about time I looked to do an abstract piece since it's some of my favorite things to photograph for fun and I haven't done one in a while. So when I left the house before I started thinking of what I'd like to do and as I drove down this one lane road (all 9 miles of it) to the main highway I started cranking off some frames at the road side, lakes etc. as I passed them using a slow shutter speed after choosing an aperture that would allow me enough light but slow everything down to blur the road side out. Well this one turned out to be a HAPPY MISTAKE and was not planned at all. I was just testing my settings as I drove about 45mph and using my right hand I laid the camera across my left forearm out the window and got this one. I didn't even see what I had until I returned home a short while ago and started looking on the monitor at my results LOL.

I really liked the lines in the road, guard rail and tree blur but then to have the image in the mirror be so in focus and having the road curve off into the blurred road like that really gave me a smile, with the telephone pole and bright sky right in the middle of the trees up top between the shadowed trees, now that's a abstract mistake I'll take any day ;)

This is straight out of the camera except the file size was downsized a bit, I tried a few things in post, even some frames but everything I did seemed to screw it up one way or another so I just left it alone. Hell I liked it so here it is but I was torn between this one and my ALTERNATE HERE in my over flow gallery, which was a car passing by a short time after this one was shot and reminded me of that car from that scary Car Movie "CARRIE" from the Early 80's (OK so I'm dating myself LOL) what do you other MID AGED folks think? Does it remind you of CARRIE too ???

CORRECTION: Thank You LESLIE for pointing out that the car movie was was "CHRISTINE" and not Carrie !! That's definitely the one I was thinking of ;)


Ma-halo
~Bill~

"ATTENTION NIKON D300 OWNERS" ! ! !
Please Be Advised that I have just learned that Nikon released a second FIRMWARE UPDATE last month for us that updates you from versions A-1.02 (if you updated last time from 1.00) & B-1.00 and Upgrades you to Version A-1.03 B-1.03 - - - - -
This upgrade fixes something with a Blinking Battery meter that occurs no matter how charged your batteries are. Just go to  http://nikon.com/ and do a search for D300 Firmware Upgrade for the proper Windows / MAC edition !
Bill Pador > Added 8/13/08-(#3 of 9)

This old train is located near my home and is part of a small DISPLAY I guess you would call it of 3 very old train cars & ca-buss. I liked the way the windows were frosted over giving it a Ghostly effect against the blue sky in the background and the hills of rock in front of it.
I caught this shadow of my car in the driveway and thought it was pretty cool to see the blue tint color of the safety glass being thrown on the snow. I converted the main image into a grainy B&W then brought the color of the glass back to enhance it's presents.

I GOT A NEW TOY: Hope everyone is having a great weekend, me I'm spending mine setting up my brand new Epson Artisan 800 photo printer! It uses the new Claria High Def pigment inks and let me tell you so far the images are printing with incredible color & detail and talk about BLAZING SPEED, a full border-less 5x7 with bleed takes less then 90 seconds and look better then lab prints. So far I'm loving it and plan on printing all afternoon some new stuff for my portfolio. Oh and try printing custom labels directly on CD/DVD too for some clients, how cool. UPDATE: I just found out that Best Buy (where I bought the printer) put it on sale today for $229, I paid $299 yesterday and they will refund $70 if I bring my receipt in - Very Cool !

The Fashion Show shoot went great on Friday night, my intern assistant Tim turned out to be quite an asset to me and was a fantastic worker & shooter. Not your normal lazy 17 yo teenager but worked his butt off and didn't have to be told much of anything, he just did it on his own. I will have no problem hiring him for future work and look forward to working with him again. I think he learned a lot and told me had had a lot of fun which is key!

~Bill~
Bill Pador > I caught this shadow of my car in the driveway and thought it was pretty cool to see the blue tint color of the safety glass being thrown on the snow. I converted the main image into a grainy B&W then brought the color of the glass back to enhance it's presents.

I GOT A NEW TOY: Hope everyone is having a great weekend, me I'm spending mine setting up my brand new Epson Artisan 800 photo printer! It uses the new Claria High Def pigment inks and let me tell you so far the images are printing with incredible color & detail and talk about BLAZING SPEED, a full border-less 5x7 with bleed takes less then 90 seconds and look better then lab prints. So far I'm loving it and plan on printing all afternoon some new stuff for my portfolio. Oh and try printing custom labels directly on CD/DVD too for some clients, how cool. UPDATE: I just found out that Best Buy (where I bought the printer) put it on sale today for $229, I paid $299 yesterday and they will refund $70 if I bring my receipt in - Very Cool !

The Fashion Show shoot went great on Friday night, my intern assistant Tim turned out to be quite an asset to me and was a fantastic worker & shooter. Not your normal lazy 17 yo teenager but worked his butt off and didn't have to be told much of anything, he just did it on his own. I will have no problem hiring him for future work and look forward to working with him again. I think he learned a lot and told me had had a lot of fun which is key!

~Bill~
I caught this shadow of my car in the driveway and thought it was pretty cool to see the blue tint color of the safety glass being thrown on the snow. I converted the main image into a grainy B&W then brought the color of the glass back to enhance it's presents.

I GOT A NEW TOY: Hope everyone is having a great weekend, me I'm spending mine setting up my brand new Epson Artisan 800 photo printer! It uses the new Claria High Def pigment inks and let me tell you so far the images are printing with incredible color & detail and talk about BLAZING SPEED, a full border-less 5x7 with bleed takes less then 90 seconds and look better then lab prints. So far I'm loving it and plan on printing all afternoon some new stuff for my portfolio. Oh and try printing custom labels directly on CD/DVD too for some clients, how cool. UPDATE: I just found out that Best Buy (where I bought the printer) put it on sale today for $229, I paid $299 yesterday and they will refund $70 if I bring my receipt in - Very Cool !

The Fashion Show shoot went great on Friday night, my intern assistant Tim turned out to be quite an asset to me and was a fantastic worker & shooter. Not your normal lazy 17 yo teenager but worked his butt off and didn't have to be told much of anything, he just did it on his own. I will have no problem hiring him for future work and look forward to working with him again. I think he learned a lot and told me had had a lot of fun which is key!

~Bill~
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