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Bill Pador > Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh. ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Rain Brings Life" Good afternoon everyone, the tests with the SB-900 are going well and I am having a blast with it. Hopefully I'll have the full review done in a few days for your reading pleasure. I took this shot yesterday while being bored out of my mind. So I decided to sit outside in the cold damp rain on my front porch shooting some bird shots when I noticed my thorn bush presenting some cool water images. So I broke out the Tamron 90mm Macro and started playing with some off camera flash. I have a bunch more images to go through but figured I'd post one for today's POD. I really liked the way the thorn was encased by the water drop and the reflection of the bush behind it coming through and the new flower poking out of the branch drinking up the water for life (hence the title). I'll put the other shots in my EXTRAS gallery in a little while and add a link here for viewing. Today's weather is again cold damp & cloudy but the rain has held off so far. April showers bringing May flowers stinks but the beauty it brings will be worth it in the end I guess. Enjoy your day folks ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > Good Afternoon all, boy it's been a busy past few days for me in a good way. The phone has been ringing off the hook and I've booked the next 6 weekends solid (a good thing lol) So business has really picked up since Spring started, not surprising since it did the same last year at the same time. I just threw this shot together to get something up today, I bought a bouquet of flowers the other day to shoot and didn't have much time to play with them before they started to die. I placed my order for the Nikon SB-900 flash today and should have it by Friday morning depending on when the UPS guy decides to show up. I went to my local photo store to check it out the other day and I must say it is a BIG flash but have read nothing but good things about it. For anyone looking to purchase one, I went with B&H Photo (NY City) because they have it for $449 and $10 S&H NO TAX where ADAROMA Photo has it for the same price, Free S&H but are now charging TAX to NJ residents for some reason which was another $31.50 so I saved $21 going with B&H my prefered store anyway. I'll give a review of it some time next week after using it for a few days to those who were interested. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my Soldiers Shadow shot from yesterday, I had no idea it would be enjoyed so much by everyone! Have a Great Day ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Feather Friday" Happy Weekend Everyone ! Yup it's finally here so now what do we do? Play with Still Life that's what we do! I just purchased my monthly educational materials at the book store a few days ago which are 10 magazines (mostly UK productions) that I get every month to keep up on new techniques, software & equipment. I just hate the fact that they run between $10 & $20 a PIECE! I know it doesn't cost THAT much to put a magazine on a ship or airplane and your stuck paying because MOST of the great photo magazines come from the UK and we get them a MONTH behind too (so it must ship on a boat LOL). Anyway, a lot of them were concentrating on still life photography this month and I was inspired by these articles to hunt down a subject to capture. This still life macro shot was born while playing with my cat Oreo. This is actually a CAT TOY, it's a ball covered in feathers that CHIRPS like a bird when you shake or move it. After I tossed it a few times I noticed how cool the feathers look under natural light. So I placed it on my bay window sill while the sun was setting and broke out my Tamron 90mm macro lens & tripod. To capture the most absolutely best detail I could I also used (Live View - which I rarely use) along with a cable release, the mirror up & delayed exposure functions to eliminate even the slightest shake or movement on the tripod. The result is seen here, which was finished off with some stacked edges using OnOne Pro Frames 4, then blurred & dragged with a custom brush in CS3 & a simple black keyline frame applied. PS: Thank You for all the Wonderful Comments & Concerns for my health the past few days, I'm Happy to report my Spine is feeling DECENT today and that's all I can ask for at this point, so I'm pushing forward. Have a WONDEFUL Weekend everyone, be kind to yourself & someone else. You owe it to yourself to have some fun so be sure to get our there and crank off some frames, hit the dark room and crack a smile when your masterpiece is done ! Oh and then 'Show Them Off' in your Dailies so the rest of us can see ;) ~Bill Pador~
Bill Pador > "Spread Your Wings & Fly" Good evening folks, today was not a good day for me pain wise and really didn't think I was going to be able to come through with a fresh image. But I decided to play around with some macro captures to try and take my mind off being uncomfortable since macro photography takes a lot of concentration in order to get the detail & DOF right. I roamed the house for a while trying to find something fresh that I haven't shot yet to no avail, so I headed outside into my car, everything I shot looked bad to me so I headed back inside then my little buddy 'Oreo' helped me find this very small feather hidden in a dried flower arrangement I have by the front door by rubbing against it and drawing my attention to it LOL I opened the front door for some natural light and used the bronze door plate as my background to reflect the multi-colored bushes I have out front into the lens which caused the funky colors you see here. The feather is VERY small, about the thickness of a pencil so I got up CLOSE about 3" away and started dialing in the focus hand held. I should have grabbed my tripod but I just wasn't thinking clearly. I shot a dozen frames and headed into Lightroom 2 to see what I had. To my surprise I had a few with decent detail and great DOF so I processed the RAW file then slid over to CS3 for some final touches. I hit it with a small dose of NIK Color Efex BRILLIANT & WARM filter to bring the background colors up a bit, a small dose of sharpening and then gave it the edge frame with OnOne Pro Frames to give it some outside life so the eye would be drawn towards the in focus part of the feather. The title comes from me wanting to Spread My Wings & Fly Away because I wasn't feeling well. I am doing a little better now but still not too happy so I just took my night pill and plan on laying down for a bit and catching up on some TV programs I have recorded. I'll try to catch up on today's comments in the morning so have wonderful Thursday everyone, may it be a prosperous one for all of you ! ~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 > Just a simple macro shot of some Cologne bottles that had a cool shape to them. Just got done blowing the 5" of snow we got last night which is 5" shy of what they called for so it was a good day. Lots of ice under it so driving is not a good thing to do today so I'll spend my time relaxing on the couch watching football! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > I have these dried flowers set behind my Tiki Bar for many years now and never took the time to shoot them until now. I was WONDERING around the house trying to shoot something for my POD like a lost soul due to the nasty weather we've been getting and I clicked off a few frames on this one and when I saw it in the LCD I couldn't believe how cool it looked so off to finish it I went. I've been playing around with B&W, Sepia and Selective color a LOT the past few weeks so I wanted to continue using it now. I love the dramatic results you can get when you go colorless. This was shot with my Tamron 90mm Di Macro and once again it proves why it's one of the hottest macro lenses out there right now. The Sharpness, DOF & Bokeh that comes out of this glass never ceases to amaze me. I've been noticing a LOT of NEW Daily group contributers lately, seems as if 2009 has generated new found inspiration for POTD projects which is very exciting to see. It Seems Smug is running slow today as this small file took almost a minute to upload where usually it would have taken seconds. Hopefully navigating won't take forever since I wanna see every one's galleries today and don't feel like waiting for the pages to load, we'll see ! It's snowing here and it's supposed to drop 10" of the white stuff AGAIN, I'm getting tired of snow I really am, thank goodness for snow blowers LOL. Have a Great weekend everyone, ~Bill Pador~
Bill Pador > "Glowing Crystal Glass" Well I felt it time I get back to my artistic roots today instead of a plain old photo image and have a little fun. I wanted to use a simple item to create an colorful art deco abstract & have the finished piece to have some color, depth & height to it giving it a feel of being in a tunnel or black hole on acid LOL. What you are looking at is a simple macro shot of a Blue Stem wine glass which I sat on top of a multi colored light stand and shot it at 90' directly over the top looking down. The colors you see have NOT been manipulated what so ever and is as they came out of the camera, the outer edge has been blurred using FOCAL POINT to add some artistic depth and to bring the eye toward the center of the shot, leaving the center sharp & in tact. The black area between the 2 is the dead space around the glass where the light did not diffract or carry through the glass. Next step was to create an artistic frame to add more depth to the shot and create a art deco finish to the piece. This was accomplished using Photo Tools and creating a simple grey 2D box frame and then adding a slight white glow to the edges and then a slim black line to border it giving it a 3D effect and some height. Next was to add the slim red line around the frame and then a 10 pixel black border. Finishing up using 'Pro Frames 3' I went in and used a simple edge frame and blurred it almost 90% using white as the color outline which created the marbleizing effect you see. This had to be done 4 times rotating the effect 90' each application until the marble effect was all the way around the frame. There you have it, using a simple wine glass & cheap $5.00 4 Color LED light stand, a few photoshop plug ins and a little imagination & creativity I give you a pretty cool Abstract Art Deco Piece I'll call the GLOWING CRYSTAL GLASS ! LOL
Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh.

~Bill~
Bill Pador > Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh. ~Bill~
Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh.

~Bill~
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