Had an awesome time with the Atlanta Urban Photo Walkers this past Sunday. This photo walk walked was a walking tour for the Fire In the 4th festival that will be in Atlanta this May. This festival celebrating the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. For this walk several performers from Nameless FIre Theater performed their fire dancing routines for us. This was the first time that I was able to be really close to fire dancers.
Hope you enjoy the pics below. Until next time.
2AN
Ok, so it's been nearly a year since I posted something on my blog. Work and the motorcycling hobby have soaked up a lot of time. I finally had a free weekend to catch up with the Atlanta Urban Photo Walkers. On a a warm, muggy night in Atlanta, we met up at Piedmont park and went to an area where we saw a nice view of the downtown Atlanta skyline. For the shots below I used my Canon 7D and a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. I was a bit rusty, but the shots below were my favorite. Thanks for visiting. Working on putting out more content, stay tuned.
2AN
One Sunday morning I caught up with the Atlanta Urban Photo Walkers Meetup group. This Meetup was on the west side at the Brickworks restaurant parking deck. I missed the sunrise because I just had to have five more minutes, which turned into 20 min. While there, the we all walked a scouted path and on this path there was a lot of cool graffiti and building art. For this photo walk I used my Canon 7D and the Canon 24-70mm f/2.8.
Towards the end of the walk the doors of the Piju Belly restaurant caught my attention. By this time it is around 9:30 a.m. and the next thing that caught my attention was the way the sun light was hitting the bricks followed by the iron gate that lead you to the doors. While standing there studying the scene, three letters came to mind. H.D.R. The photo below is a three HDR with one stop over and a one shot under exposed. With a little magic done in Photoshop, I created the image below. This was the best image from the photo walk.
Until the next post
2AN
It has been a while since my last post. Last weekend I caught up with the Atlanta Urban Photo Walkers MeetUp group. We all met up at the Georgia Tech Hotel Parking deck in Atlanta to shoot the Atlanta skyline. I arrived with the my old reliable Canon T1i and Sigma 18-200mm f/3.4 lens with a Tiffen 62mm 1.2 neutral density filter. I planned on shooting a time-lapse scene using a "bramping" technique. Last December I purchased TriggerTrap, an app that lets you control your DSLR camera, and began doing some "bramping" (bulb ramping) testing. Well, my bramping time-lapse scene didn't turn out the way I wanted, but I did have a few cool shots from the Meetup.
Later on that evening I got asked to join some other photographers to shoot the Atlanta skyline from a different location. We shot from the Coca-Cola parking deck in Centennial Park. This location was mentioned in a blog post, that talked about the top parking garages for photographers , by Ana Santos (She was at the Meetup also). Luckily, one of the photographers there allowed me to use a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens with my Canon 7D body. Below are some of the shots I took with that lens. Hmmmmm, this lens might be an addition to my gear in the future, not near future.
