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Bill Pador > "Another Day Goes Away" 10-21-09 / I shot this sunset this evening at one of my favorite spots for sunsets, The Rockaway Mall Parking lot LOL. It may be funny but I have known since 1990 when I lived just across the street 200' from here and had a deck off my kitchen that faced this very mountain giving me the exact view you are seeing now and I used to sit on the deck every night waiting for this scene. Just having this view increased the value of my town house 10's of thousands of dollars when it came time to sell it. The deck & this view were my favorite part of living there. This image is almost SOTC with the exception of the long crop, basic sharpening & frame. Enjoy it my friends ! PS: Thanks for all the wonderful comments the past few days on my Fish Eye Lens series ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > 10-12-09 TULIP / I shot this fire colored tulip months ago but while going through my files just found it and realized I never posted it so in my last ditch effort to hold onto summer I'm presenting this brilliant flower today LOL. With all the cloudy weather we have had the last 2 days here I haven't had my chance to get out and shoot some of the fall colors starting to appear yet but they should be peaking in a few weeks and then I'll get my chance weather permitting. Thanks for all your wonderful comments on my last few entries from the Bronx Zoo, I'm just finishing up the 350 images I have from my visit there a few weeks ago and will be posting the entire gallery in a few days. PS: "Blackberry Users" Join my new "Blackberry Messenger 5.0 User Group - Bill Pador Photos" More info & Instructions for joining are on my SITE NEWS PAGE CLICK HERE Best regards ~Bill~
Bill Pador > Good Day All - Today was a WONDERFUL day here in NJ 68' Sunny with a nice breeze and a great day for shooting! I was out most of the afternoon shooting all kinds of neat stuff but haven't gone through the files yet because I'm totally bushed from not sleeping the last 48 hours. So I threw the final shot of the day together for my daily which as you can see was a blazing orange sunset right at the end of my street as I turned the car in for home. I've gotta get some rest but will post some more of today's shots tomorrow in my 'Extras'. BTW: Thank You All for your wonderful comments, well wishes & prayers for me & my family yesterday. I'm feeling much better today as you can see and hopefully on the upswing again - YEA ! Shooting all day took my mind off the pain & discomfort a lot so that's always a good thing too. Have a Great Thursday Everyone, the weekend is almost here for you 9-5 working types LOL ! Best Regards, ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Deep Orange Glow" I shot this from my front porch During an approaching storm the other night the sun started going down and the colors were bleeding through the storm clouds creating an awesome sky. I shot a hand held 3 frame bracket -1, 0, +1 then brought it into Photomatix to create an HDR, Tone Mapped it and then into CS3 where I adjusted Levels, Curves, Contrast. Then into NIK Color Efex to boost Pro contrast and then finished it off with Imagenomic Noiseware and keyline frame. I just wish I would have grabbed my tripod to make things easier in blending mode but it came out pretty good for hand held anyway. The Smiling Joe Project is coming along nicely, I've been busy putting together all the logistics of the plan and should be sending out another email to everyone in the next few days with more updates and how this will work for everyone. Don't worry, it's a simple process for you all and nothing but fun involved, it's me who is tearing his hair out right now LOL Not really it's not that bad, just a lot of paper work (which I hate) but once it's all done it will run like clock work (I hope LOL) IN the mean time I've been able to recruit 2 more countries, India & Australia to his overseas adventure. So as of now he will be traveling to "7" different countries on 4 different continents, not bad ! Thanks for every one's participation, I'm VERY excited about the whole thing. Have a Great Evening Everyone, ~Bill~
Bill Pador > I shot this dusk image just prior to the lone doe shot, just liked the sky colors and the way the composition came out with the clouds heading for all the proper places in frame and since I'm a few images behind on my dailies I'm filing in the gaps. Thanks for looking ;) ~Bill~ I needed to catch up on my missing dailies so I posted 2 additional images which can be seen here for comments: Baseball Field: http://billpador.smugmug.com/gallery/5957529_DbeQJ/1/376934303_xpzfx Lone Doe: http://billpador.smugmug.com/gallery/5957529_DbeQJ/1/376934294_Qchhd
Bill Pador > "My GXP At Sunset" This is my 325hp 08' Pontiac Grand Prix GXP. I've been planning this shot out for a while now but had to wait for the right conditions which finally were available last night. It was a very technical shot and certain things had to come together in order for it to be successful including the orange sunset in the background, the moon in the front coming up early and then having a car drive behind me on the access road. The set was also a bit technical having to use several small LED flashlights to light the rims which were placed at 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock at different angels pointed upward from the ground to enhance depth and color of the rim reflection and a small street light above left for the hood. All of the colors you see here are NATURAL and have not been manipulated by photoshop what so ever. This image doesn't even have an adjustment layer on it, only a small amount of unsharp mask for the rims was used so I didn't disturbed the natural pattern of the long exposure of the fog/parking light rays or the tail lights going by giving the effect that my car had been moving from the rear (see tail lights how they match up with the car that went by). I actually took about 15 shots every time a car went by behind my car over the course of an hour (not very many cars travel this road) and I am located in a parking lot. The exposure was 4 seconds at f/9 ISO 800 and a Custom dialed in Kelvin White Balance temp of 8680 to enhance the sunset and reflections, I also am using Center Weight metering to get my car in balance and not over exposed because I wanted it to look like a shadow & outline with the rims & hood lines being high lighted. The moon is directly behind me giving off the soft light on the side of the car & hood and the sun is setting behind my car which is obscured by the wood line and just peaks through the trees. Again this is almost as it was Straight out of the Camera besides a small amount of sharpening, it's all natural and came out much better then I had planned with so many wonderful colors, textures & reflections going on! Enjoy PS: Yesterday I shot over 1000 frames over 7.5 hours during a personal nature shoot at 4 different lakes, 2 parks, 2 forests etc., covering birds, trees, fisherman, mountain landscapes etc. that I will share over the next few days! I got some very interesting shots Have a great day everyone ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Fire Without Smoke" Best seen Larger I want to Thank You All for your wonderful comments on my SP yesterday. I never knew so many would think having a 5 O'Clock shadow fit me so well LOL At least I know if I don't feel like shaving one day I won't look too out of place. Today's daily comes from my shoot 2 days ago at High Point State Park NJ because I'm feeling a little under the weather again with my back injury and don't feel much like doing any shooting today. So I laid here on the couch and flipped through my shots from Sunday and came upon this one and thought I could do something interesting in post with it. I had observed the sun coming through these trees and liked the back lit shadow & silhouette it cast so I shot it. I had my lens hood on and at 20mm (almost wide open) it caught the edges of the hood on the frame giving it a natural vignette, so I extended it in CS3 along with giving it my own custom flair of an infrared treatment I developed a while back & used a blaze orange color to set it off. I really liked the results & hope you do as well. That's all I had to do to complete this one and now I can relax knowing my daily is finished for the day. Hope you enjoy this one, it shows exactly how I feel today, a little gloomy with a hint of sunshine. Maybe a nice hot cup of coffee will cheer me up and it's almost time to take my pain meds so there is hope LOL. You guys are the best group of talented photographers I've met to date and I appreciate all your support & kind words each and every day, they give me something to look forward to along with seeing all your fantastic work to inspire me further. I'm sure each of us has not only learned from each other but it's also a pleasure having a place to showcase our work amoung friends & fellow artists ~Best Regards, Bill~ UPDATE: I just added 16 images to my Dalies Overflow gallery PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW Includes an Oil Painting I created today
Bill Pador > Sunset Jefferson NJ 3/24/08
Bill Pador > Orange Tulip macro image shot with a 90mm Tamron Di 1:1 macro lens

"Another Day Goes Away"


10-21-09 / I shot this sunset this evening at one of my favorite spots for sunsets, The Rockaway Mall Parking lot LOL. It may be funny but I have known since 1990 when I lived just across the street 200' from here and had a deck off my kitchen that faced this very mountain giving me the exact view you are seeing now and I used to sit on the deck every night waiting for this scene. Just having this view increased the value of my town house 10's of thousands of dollars when it came time to sell it. The deck & this view were my favorite part of living there. This image is almost SOTC with the exception of the long crop, basic sharpening & frame. Enjoy it my friends !

PS: Thanks for all the wonderful comments the past few days on my Fish Eye Lens series !
~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Another Day Goes Away" 10-21-09 / I shot this sunset this evening at one of my favorite spots for sunsets, The Rockaway Mall Parking lot LOL. It may be funny but I have known since 1990 when I lived just across the street 200' from here and had a deck off my kitchen that faced this very mountain giving me the exact view you are seeing now and I used to sit on the deck every night waiting for this scene. Just having this view increased the value of my town house 10's of thousands of dollars when it came time to sell it. The deck & this view were my favorite part of living there. This image is almost SOTC with the exception of the long crop, basic sharpening & frame. Enjoy it my friends ! PS: Thanks for all the wonderful comments the past few days on my Fish Eye Lens series ! ~Bill~

"Another Day Goes Away"


10-21-09 / I shot this sunset this evening at one of my favorite spots for sunsets, The Rockaway Mall Parking lot LOL. It may be funny but I have known since 1990 when I lived just across the street 200' from here and had a deck off my kitchen that faced this very mountain giving me the exact view you are seeing now and I used to sit on the deck every night waiting for this scene. Just having this view increased the value of my town house 10's of thousands of dollars when it came time to sell it. The deck & this view were my favorite part of living there. This image is almost SOTC with the exception of the long crop, basic sharpening & frame. Enjoy it my friends !

PS: Thanks for all the wonderful comments the past few days on my Fish Eye Lens series !
~Bill~
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