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Bill Pador > Hello All, The weather here has been pretty crappy the past 2 days causing me some discomfort but more importantly keeping me inside with not much to do. So I started playing around with some macro work around the house and decided to pull out a feather and play with light & textures abstracts. This was created with a single SB-600 flash off camera to the left @ 1/30 power and a few small home made tin foil reflectors high & low to create the dark & light areas. Then I converted to B&W and added some framing work to create an artistic piece out of this single feather. Here's some INTERESTING Data - I just found a really cool & FREE "EXIF" Reader called "OPANDA" which also lists your TOTAL # of Shutter Releases in the EXIT Data, My D300 as of today has "81,987" Presses of the Shutter since 11/07 - Quick calculations put that at me taking an average of 169 photos a day 7 days a week for the last approx. 515 days ! If you'd like OPANDA you can get it HERE (Very Small 2.5mb & FREE D/L): http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm PS: EASY TO USE . . Open the program, then OPEN a .jpg image taken with your camera (The .jpg file you read must be UNEDITED to read all the data !) You will see all the EXIF Data in the block below, scroll down about 3/4 way to the bottomr to see the TOTAL SHUTTER RELEASES - *(ART is DOES Work on Canon, you might be doing something wrong) Email me if you can't see it! I don't know if this works will all Brands / Models of cameras but it works on Nikon / Canon for sure ! ENJOY ! Hope your all having a wonderful weekend ~Bill~
Bill Pador > Well today has been a great day for photography, it's was wonderful outside. Crystal light blue skies, almost cloud free and the temps at a balmy 55' but very bearable. I had a late night staying up all night processing 580 images from a sweet 16 shoot I did last week, then I had a McDonald's breakfast YUMMY and then off to play with my camera all day. I started at my youngest daughter (11) Alexa's Dance Competition (she's a nationally ranked dancer with several national titles - yes I'm a proud papa LOL). NO FLASH was allowed and it was very dark with just stage lights from over head and I was about 40' from the stage, so once again I had to push the D300 into it's comfort zone Focal length 105mm, 1/250 @ f/5.3 High ISO Noise Reduction set to Normal and ISO 2000 ! Yes I said 2000 and I wanted to show those who don't know about the fantastic low light capabilities of the D300 what it can truly do. This shot is 100% SOTC ! Not even a hint of sharpening, just converted it from RAW to .jpg in PS RAW Bridge and saved it. As you know noise is best seen in blacks & dark colors and especially skin tones, I've uploaded the full size file as well so you could see up to X3-LARGE size so you can see how good the D300 handles noise in low light conditions, Remarkable !!! I also only used my 18-200 VR lens which isn't even close to the sharpest in my bag (but shines at 105mm about it's sharpest around this length) and this shot IMO came out Awesome! I have 100+ others like it that I shot during her 3 minute routine LOL and they all came out great ! Oh I also was using the 51 Point 3D Constant Tracking Focus feature ! I traveled to a bunch of my favorite landscape sites along with the Horse Stud Farm. I'll post more tomorrow. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I know I am !!! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > This abstract was shot while I was fooling around in the still life studio the other night and is SOTC. The word 'FILTER' comes from the small Halogen light I was using to highlight this wine glass and is on the glass in front of the bulb. The word was able to reflect off of the wine in the glass and thought it was pretty cool that the colors of the wine changed so much from this lighting technique. It is a red wine but when shot at an angle it changed to various shades of red with the yellows & oranges coming through as well. I hope you enjoy this one, it's a little different from my usual work but being different is what it's all about right ! Thanks to all of you who have emailed me since my illness, you have all brought great joy to my heart knowing that so many of you care so deeply about me & my health. I've been a little slow the past few days because of my back injury but today is a GOOD day finally and I'm feeling wonderful today. The cold weather here in New Jersey is getting tough to handle and I'm really looking forward to Spring, it just can't come fast enough. Hopefully one of these years I'll be able to move to Florida and not have to worry about the cold anymore, it's one of the things that affects my disabilities the most and if I move to a warmer climate I'll have much less health problems (I hope LOL). For all of you who are chronic pain patients like me always remember that you can email me when your feeling down and need someone to talk to, I fully understand how it can affect your emotions and I've learned some things on how you can turn that negative pain into positive emotion using photography. Hope you are all having a fantastic day and now I'm off to comment on your images ! Thanks Daily Group, you guys are the BEST friends a man could ever ask for !!! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > I was playing around in my Still Life Studio tonight and happen to find a really nice looking tomato in the fridge, so I decided to shoot it for one of my subjects tonight. I used an old nasal spray bottle with water & a drop of blue food coloring (to bring the detail of the drops out more) and the background is my waste paper basket which is like an iron mesh behind it. The tomato sat in a plastic cup to bring the height up to match the mesh part I wanted to put it in front of. Then I took 2 small clip on halogen lights below the tomato shooting straight up to back light the tomato, 1 desk light from above & behind, 1 light at 5 o'clock shooting up/back to give that small highlight on the lower right, then I dialed in a custom white balance to change the hue of the light to get the basic colors you see. I managed to get a blue & reddish color out of it that way but kept the tomato nice & red without changing it's color. Oh BTW this was shot in RAW format so I had full control in LightRoom, Once in Lightroom I did normal sharpening & contrast adjustment, adjusted the black level and boosted the hue of the blue to purple and the reddish orange hue a bit but couldn't move the sliders much or it screwed up my tomatoes color. I also adjusted the yellows which brought out the water drops a bit more and gave them some punch since the white balance I used made the light reflection of the water drops on the yellow side which was good to bring the drops to life. I also added a slight edge darkening & vignette to tone down the edge colors, then saved it. I actually have a few more shots I'm going to post in my EXTRAS gallery tomorrow of a few different items I was playing with like a wine glass, wine bottle & glass and a dried out leaf I saved from fall time. I'll let you know when their done & posted ;) Oh I almost forgot - "I WON the contract for the Junior Formal at the High School in May", I guess my work spoke for itself over the others, so Thanks for all your support & well wishes on that one. I'm very proud to have gotten that contract, it will give me a chance to show off my work to a lot of high school kids & parents this year. Have a Wonderful Thursday everyone, here it's been snowing all day & night. Only have about 2" but it's that wet heavy crap and everything is a mess now. Hope your bathing in the sun where you are ;) ~BILL PADOR~
Bill Pador > I caught this moon silhouette last night after seeing how cool the moon light looked creeping through the trees. It looked so eerie to me and reminded me of a horror movie. I shot this hand held bracing it against my knees while sitting on a chair. Then used NIK Silver Efex to convert it to full B&W and adjust the brightness & contrast. Then I added a slight Gaussian blur & hit it with some Imagenomic Noiseware, then finished with a small keyline frame. PS: Has anyone been having problems accessing my site in the last 24 hours ? I received an email late last night saying my site was down but when I woke up there seemed to be no problems. Thanks Enjoy your day all ! ~Bill Pador~
Bill Pador > "Commemorative Rope" The story behind this image actually means a lot to me. To the simple viewer it's a piece of rope wrapped around a piling which is part of my Tiki bar as part of the pier I built around the bar. I liked the shadow & natural light that was being cast on it early yesterday morning, thus taking the shot. But after looking at it I remembered how important this slice of rope was to me. It's actually a slice of my life with great meaning behind it. This rope was used to fly the Main U.S.A. Flag over the United States Military Academy 'WEST POINT' where I was stationed as a military police officer from '85-'88. It flew the flag for exactly 1 year over 'Trophy Point' over looking the Hudson River which West point guarded during the civil war before it's replaced with a new rope & flag. On the 365th day the U.S. flag was flown on it for the last time, but at the end of the day a special ceremony took place, in MY HONOR!. The West Point honor guard performed the ceremony by firing a 21 gun salute and then a canon volley, the flag was lowered while being saluted by some very important people, then folded according to military guidelines with the fired shells from the 21 gun salute being tucked inside the flag. Then the rope was cut from the pole and saluted. Both were then presented to me for my years of service to the military as a departing gift before I retired. I have the flag encased in a shadow box in my home and had that rope laying around for many years before making it part of my bar and had forgotten all about the honor that went into that silly piece of rope until I shot this image which brought back a lot of memories. Well I hope you all enjoyed knowing the history behind this image and that piece of rope, kind of gives a little more then just an image today. "Contest Voting" PS: For those who missed yesterdays image, voting for my Photo of the Year contest has begun. If you who have registered & made your 5 posts to be eligible to vote for me follow this link: http://www.photographycorner.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=72 into the Photograph Of The Year Thread and click on GALLERY 'H' - My image title is "THOSE EYES" Then all you have to do is fill the vote circle and click VOTE NOW - Your done ! Have a Wonderful day everyone ! ~Bill~
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Hello All, The weather here has been pretty crappy the past 2 days causing me some discomfort but more importantly keeping me inside with not much to do. So I started playing around with some macro work around the house and decided to pull out a feather and play with light & textures abstracts. This was created with a single SB-600 flash off camera to the left @ 1/30 power and a few small home made tin foil reflectors high & low to create the dark & light areas. Then I converted to B&W and added some framing work to create an artistic piece out of this single feather.

Here's some INTERESTING Data - I just found a really cool & FREE "EXIF" Reader called "OPANDA" which also lists your TOTAL # of Shutter Releases in the EXIT Data, My D300 as of today has "81,987" Presses of the Shutter since 11/07 - Quick calculations put that at me taking an average of 169 photos a day 7 days a week for the last approx. 515 days ! If you'd like OPANDA you can get it HERE (Very Small 2.5mb & FREE D/L):
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm
PS: EASY TO USE . . Open the program, then OPEN a .jpg image taken with your camera (The .jpg file you read must be UNEDITED to read all the data !) You will see all the EXIF Data in the block below, scroll down about 3/4 way to the bottomr to see the TOTAL SHUTTER RELEASES - *(ART is DOES Work on Canon, you might be doing something wrong) Email me if you can't see it! I don't know if this works will all Brands / Models of cameras but it works on Nikon / Canon for sure ! ENJOY !

Hope your all having a wonderful weekend
~Bill~
Bill Pador > Hello All, The weather here has been pretty crappy the past 2 days causing me some discomfort but more importantly keeping me inside with not much to do. So I started playing around with some macro work around the house and decided to pull out a feather and play with light & textures abstracts. This was created with a single SB-600 flash off camera to the left @ 1/30 power and a few small home made tin foil reflectors high & low to create the dark & light areas. Then I converted to B&W and added some framing work to create an artistic piece out of this single feather. Here's some INTERESTING Data - I just found a really cool & FREE "EXIF" Reader called "OPANDA" which also lists your TOTAL # of Shutter Releases in the EXIT Data, My D300 as of today has "81,987" Presses of the Shutter since 11/07 - Quick calculations put that at me taking an average of 169 photos a day 7 days a week for the last approx. 515 days ! If you'd like OPANDA you can get it HERE (Very Small 2.5mb & FREE D/L): http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm PS: EASY TO USE . . Open the program, then OPEN a .jpg image taken with your camera (The .jpg file you read must be UNEDITED to read all the data !) You will see all the EXIF Data in the block below, scroll down about 3/4 way to the bottomr to see the TOTAL SHUTTER RELEASES - *(ART is DOES Work on Canon, you might be doing something wrong) Email me if you can't see it! I don't know if this works will all Brands / Models of cameras but it works on Nikon / Canon for sure ! ENJOY ! Hope your all having a wonderful weekend ~Bill~
Hello All, The weather here has been pretty crappy the past 2 days causing me some discomfort but more importantly keeping me inside with not much to do. So I started playing around with some macro work around the house and decided to pull out a feather and play with light & textures abstracts. This was created with a single SB-600 flash off camera to the left @ 1/30 power and a few small home made tin foil reflectors high & low to create the dark & light areas. Then I converted to B&W and added some framing work to create an artistic piece out of this single feather.

Here's some INTERESTING Data - I just found a really cool & FREE "EXIF" Reader called "OPANDA" which also lists your TOTAL # of Shutter Releases in the EXIT Data, My D300 as of today has "81,987" Presses of the Shutter since 11/07 - Quick calculations put that at me taking an average of 169 photos a day 7 days a week for the last approx. 515 days ! If you'd like OPANDA you can get it HERE (Very Small 2.5mb & FREE D/L):
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm
PS: EASY TO USE . . Open the program, then OPEN a .jpg image taken with your camera (The .jpg file you read must be UNEDITED to read all the data !) You will see all the EXIF Data in the block below, scroll down about 3/4 way to the bottomr to see the TOTAL SHUTTER RELEASES - *(ART is DOES Work on Canon, you might be doing something wrong) Email me if you can't see it! I don't know if this works will all Brands / Models of cameras but it works on Nikon / Canon for sure ! ENJOY !

Hope your all having a wonderful weekend
~Bill~
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