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Bill Pador > "In Through The Out Door" To start off my 6th month here at the Dailies community I felt like toying around with the David Hill processed look so I did a SP (another milestone) with me grabbing a soda out of the fridge and shot it from the INSIDE of the fridge to give it a little creativity. I laid some texture down on the canvas along with a ton of processing, vignette blur, drop shadow and well just a whole bunch of stuff LOL So this is what I look like when I'm reaching into the fridge from the milks view ;) The camera was laid inside the fridge with a small milk carton holding up the lens and set on a 5 sec. delay 1/125 with constant focusing at f/6.3 to ensure I had enough DOF. It's been a great 6 months here and I look forward to many more with all of you who have become my very good friends. I wish to Thank You all for your constant support and inspiration and for sharing all of your wonderful work with me as well. You all have helped drive my creativity to new levels everyday benefiting my art & mind. So Have a great day everyone & Thanks for all the warm comments on the Lily shots yesterday ! Your Dailies Friend ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "From Dusk Till Dawn" OK I broke down and finally felt the courage to do a semi proper SP since my buddy John (You know who you are LOL) pounded us with a few SP's in recent days. This is my interpretation of a Self Portrait 'MUG SHOT' layout depicting me in a duel format of Dusk Till Dawn (a favorite movie of mine as well) with the left one showing me after a hard day behind the shutter and the right showing what a fresh razor & some hair gel can do for this photographer LOL. PP consists of some slight portrait softening (glamour treatment - I can use all the help I can get) and then running it through Alien Skins B&W Film plug-in using 'Ilford SFX 200' B&W film (grain off) and a split frame. So there it is, I've done my SP part for the year so don't ask for another one or I'll be forced to run away to Alaska for a few short months to bury my head in the snow until it thaws in the spring time. Thanks for forcing this upon me John, no further inspiration for SP's is needed from you now buddy !!! LOL Have a great day folks PS: I took SUNITA's suggestion & entered this image into the DGrin SP Contest, Ugg what was I thinking LOL??? Wish me luck ;)
Bill Pador > The Great SILVER BACK GORILLA Here he is ladies & gents, the endangered Silver Back Gorilla. Photographed at the world famous Bronx Zoo NY City on 7/5/08. I took a trip to the zoo today for the first time in my life for a photo shoot. After living within 60 min. of the zoo for most of my life I thought it was about time I made a visit and see what they had to offer, I must say I had a WONDERFUL time and for a photographer, subject matter is EVERY WHERE to shoot. The day started off very overcast and I knew I wasn't in for the best conditions but decided to still take the trip. It rained on me from the time I entered the gate until the time I left putting the weather seals of my D300 to the ultimate test, I'm happy to say they past with flying colors and kept the electronics dry as a bone, whew LOL. This Silver Back Gorilla is one of over 20 they have at the zoo (there are 2 families from what I understand). They are kept in separate sides both of which can be seen from the same observation room and they are only separated by a small electronic fence and some trees. The observation room is below the wooded area which slopes upward in a natural jungle setting. The only draw back is the THICK Plexiglas's partition that you have to shoot through. So that plus the fact that I had barely any light outside from the rain made this a very difficult day of shooting, but the D300 managed it very nicely and confirmed that this is one hell of a camera to say the least. Anyway THIS Gorilla was a real HAM, he was only about 10' away from me most of the 60 min. I photographed his family and really liked having his picture taken. They are SO SMART it's scary and act & move just like humans. They were all pretty cool and loved the attention folks were giving them. One male & female even decided to have a 'NOONER' love making session right in front of us for all to see LOL and brought many LAUGHS & CLAPS during the 60 seconds or so it took them to finish, it was VERY funny and to see some of the parents scrambling to cover their younger kids eyes almost made me spit up my soda (yes there's a shot of that in my zoo gallery too LOL) I'll find out what this fellas name is and also post some more info on the families in my Zoo gallery that I have posted and hope all of you take a look at it, I worked very hard to get the shots in the gallery and there is some amazing animals in it. I want to share it for the enjoyment of all who don't have the resources to visit such a wonderful place. Please VISIT MY BRONX ZOO GALLERY HERE and see some great animals like TIGERS, GRIZZLY & POLAR BEARS, Lots of Birds, Giraffe & the Gorilla families (TIP: It's best viewed as a SLide Show so you see each picture enlarged and it's 18 pages long. Sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee while you view it.) Be sure to give this image a Thumbs Up vote if you like it & Thanks for your comments & visiting my galleries ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "REFLECTIONS OF LOVE" This image was taken for a contest entry I submitted today with the theme being 'Feathered Friends' so I decided to post if for my POD as well. These Canadian Geese are all over New Jersey & this lovely pair decided to make their summer home around the corner from my house in a near by pond. Their pretty friendly when it comes to photographing them but don't get too close or they will charge while making an awful barking noise LOL. The lake was as smooth as silk with no wind so I decided to grab this shot with the reflections of the birds almost looking mirror like. Taken with my: Nikon D300 Lens: Tamron 90mm Di 1:1 Macro used as a Prime SS: 1/50 AP: f/5.6 ISO 200 Shot hand held while sitting like an Indian using my knee & elbow contact as a tripod. Not much in the way of PP besides a basic unsharp mask application I do to all my photos and the canvas border, so pretty much straight out of the camera as is. Hopefully these fine feathered friends will earn me another contest win, keep your fingers crossed. *ATTN: If anyone of you are members of the www.PhotographyCorner.com would you could please take a minute to cast a vote for me (only registered members can vote - membership is free), It's a great site of you don't belong and they run some really nice contest monthly & throughout the year. "Voting doesn't begin until the 30th" I believe so you have time to register and make 5 posts in order to qualify for voting. I will place a link RIGHT HERE to the voting page once it's posted. Thanks ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "MIDNIGHT LILLY" -Looks Great Enlarged- I Shot this Lilly tonight at my best friends house, The original was a beautiful image itself but I wanted to do something a little different then the usual FLOWER Image. So off I went into CS3 to work a little of my magic. I did most of the post using Nik Color Efex 3 filters by first bringing a grad filter into play, followed by some contrast adjustments and then a Midnight filter to give it the look of being shot late at night. Then a small amount of unsharp mask & then finished with a purple colored circular frame which I blended into the corners ever so slightly to highlight just the corners and enhance the end of the pedals and then enlarged the canvas with the square frame colors. *(Be sure to click on the image to enlargen it)* This is NOT a macro image but was actually shot with my Nikkor 18-200 VR lens since i didn't have my macro with me. It was shot hand held using: Nikon D300 LENS: Nikkor 18-200mm VR Shutter Speed 1/200 AP- f/20 ISO 1000 Focal Length 112mm Standing about 4' away from the bush and shot from an angle below the flower upwards. I'm so Happy the way this turned out I think it will be going in my Portfolio, What do you think? ~Thanks for looking - Bill~ *If you like this image please hover over it and click ion the THUMBS UP icon so it becomes a Popular Photo on my site!
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