Posts Tagged ‘child’
Week of Lily Day 4 – 14/365
This is about when she startes to wonder when we are going to be done but is just too sweet to tell me she is done. I love the great little half smile.
Week of Lily Day 2 – 11/365
Lily decided this was a good pose that she learned from her Barbie fashion movie. I can’t say I disagree, maybe their are good lessons to be learned from Barbie!
Week of Lily Day 1 – 10/365
This week your are going to get a full week of photos of my super patient “go to” model Lily. I shot these with my new tri-fold reflector and a single SunPak 120J directly above Lily’s head.
Ode to Joy – 7/365
Ode to Joy
One of those shots I had in my head but took about 30 frames to capture it. This is a technique I use a lot for sports, slow shutter speed and pan the camera at the same speed as the subject. Fire a lot of frames and do a little chimping to make sure your pan speed is matching your subject. It is probably not going to be tack sharp at any point in the picture but the just sharp enough parts and the whole lots of blurry parts really drive home the message of movement. Then all you have to do is wait for your subject to cooperate. In this case my almost 3 year old on a spinning bug ride is happy to oblige!
Golden Girl – 6/365
Golden Girl
This light was so amazing I didn’t even care about the messy hair and Sharks hoodie. My daughter who just turned the big 5!
Plastic Bullet Review
I love iPhone photography and especially toy camera/lo-fi iPhone photography. Using the iPhone, small and compact like some kind of futuristic 110 camera, when combined with iPhone apps like Hipstamatic, Lo-Mob or Camera Bag can not only feel like you are back in the 1980s shooting a Holga but actually produce images that look a lot like toy cameras as well.
Lily Resting iPhone image processed with Red Giant Plastic Bullet
The latest entry into the toy camera emulation market is from Red Giant software, the makers of the great Magic Bullet video processing software, and it is called Plastic Bullet. Even though it is a little late to the game it is an impressive entry. Simple to use with results that are very pleasing to the eye.
White Square Lily processed with Plastic Bullet
The operation is fairly straight forward. Like most apps you can take a photo in the app or choose from your library.
A quick tip, I always shoot images using the default camera app, it is generally quicker, and you can take many images quickly.
Once you select an image you are presented with 4 versions of the image. If you don’t like any of them just click on the circle arrow and you are given 4 more versions. If you do like one click on it, it gets larger and then click on the heart icon and you can save it to your photo library. Real simple operation with impressive results.
Flapper processed with Plastic Bullet
The one downside I have found is that it saves in a reduced resolution 600×800, I have heard the developer is updating to save at full resolution.
Update: I asked Stu Maschwitz, one of the developers of Plastic Bullet, on Twitter about upgrading to save at full resolution and his answer was simple and direct “Hell yes”
Bottom line Plastic Bullet is awesome! The images are dreamy plasticy and lovely. If you like the toy camera look this is the app to get.
Go grab a copy of Plastic Bullet from the iTunes Store
The Shyness of Lily
Taking portraits in macro mode is really hard but the results are worth it. This is one of two images that came out of this session, out of about 30 shots.
Lily being shy
Heavenly Light
Jack bathed in evening light
