Lluvias Torrenciales

De repente que deja venir la lluvia, en 10 minutos ví salier el sol en VNY y ya llegando a BUR que seja caer el chaparrón así bien machin intenso comi diciendo "de esta agua has de beber"



Aca les dejo el videin.



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Digital Food Photography

Finally, today I received the book I bought two days ago, "Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna", I'm in the preproduction stage of an upcoming project that involves food (yeeaaah!).



Can't give more details but I read in many websites and finally saw an article written by Scott Kelby about shooting food and He highly recomend this book of Lou Manna, today I received, wasn't expecting it until monday but that's great I have the weekend to learn more about this tecnique.



If you are into food photography, go a head and read reviews about this book is less than $30 and a good investment in your photography career.



Best!



Jc





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Sylmar Fire at 4:13 pm from VNY

It's now 4:13 pm and still can see the Huge smoke caused by the Sayre Fires in Sylmar CA.



The burned smell is in the air, There are many fires in SoCal, Sylmar, Brea, Anahein Hills, Yorba Linda.



Socal fires burn hundreds of homes, thousands have been evacuated, it will be a long day/night for LA/Orange County Firefighters.



As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said "We are at the mercy of the winds, mother nature".



More info at: www.latimes.com





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Sylmar Fire

It's sat about 10:40 am and I can still the the huge smoke coming from the Silmar fire area, Sylmar is about 10 mins from my place, last night heard couple of firetrucks and ambulances passing by my place.



The smoke is huge, sky is so gray in San Fernando Valley, still very windy hopefully it will get better in the next couple of hours.



The Santa Ana winds are refueling the fire in the Valley area, I saw in CNN that a mobile home area is completely destroyed, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa suggested that we have to save energy.



I'll be cheching the news today and see what is going to happen in my area.



Who else lives near the fire area?! Sylmar?, San Fernando Valley?



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Airplanes Light Trails

Today's proyect required lots of patience.

First I should say that I live near two airports (VNY/BUR) the nearest one is local and the second one with domestic flights, right outside my terrace I could hear when Airplanes are passing over my apartment, few months ago I was shooting car trails, the ones when you leave your shutter open for couple of seconds and you see the back/front lights of a car leaving a light trail, today I did the same concept but now using Airplanes instead of cars.



1) Setup my camera on a tripod using my Canon 40D with a 24-70 mm wide open I framed right on top of the building next to mine, I prefocused and leave it in manual focus, fired a couple of test shots and until I was satisfied with the exposure, so the ideal setting was:



30 seconds at F/5.6, 100 iso and lots, lots of patience.



I started shooting at 6:17pm and the last shot was taken at 9:55pm ( There was not air traffic at that time, and since I had my window open I was freezing in my living room that's why I wrapped everything up few minutes before 10 pm)



Some of the light trails are from big and small planes, also a few choppers where flying around so I was paying attention to what was happening outside my window.



One thing I noticed is that the aiplanes heading to BUR (longest trails) they were flying at the same altitud, is like and invisible road, at one moment I saw 5 airplanes passing with a diference of minutes between each plane.



The white little spots are star trails.



2) at the end of the project I opened all 24 images in photoshop and place them one on top of the other in layers, then I started with the top layer and changing each layer to 'lighten' in the layers blend modes, then I merged all layers to get this final image.



I'm pretty happy with the result I migth go near BUR and spend the night shooting from a different perspective one of this nights.



last but not least... if you like it feel free to comment, share it and fav it!



Here is the larger version:

http://www.flickr.com/…47580@N00/





Best!



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Alcatraz / Calla Lillies

Took this photo in my livingroom, bought couple of Calla Lilies for Monday's photosession, they were blooming beautifully and I couldn't resist to shoot them.



Setup my light, tripod, difuser a cheapy backdrop, camera, and voila, had this shot, no photoshop or lightroom used on postproduction.



Have you done anything similar?



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Calla Lily behind the scenes photosession.



I bought couple of Calla Lilies for monday's photosession, they were beautiful, I'm seen them everyday blooming, setup my lights in my living room, put a black paper as background, put my camera on top of a plate intead, I'm using my tripod in other project, set my light and voila!



Great Shot!



More of this shots on my flickr photostream:



http://tinyurl.com/5pvnuy





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Alcatraz / Calla Lily

Alcatraz / Calla Lily
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Today I had a photosession at JPI Studios in West Hollywood, the project was for a with very special client.

We used a black clyclorama for most of the shots, I had a little break when the talent was changing wardrobe and right across the street was a flower shop, went to get a couple of Calla Lilies, I always wanted to shoot a Calla Lily with my studio lights.

I saw this shot in one of Scott Kelby's live seminars almost a year ago, he was demostrating how to shoot tethered directly into Lightroom, so today I had everything, the studio, lights, a black brackground, tripod, laptop with lightroom, calla lilies, so I gave it a try and after a few shots, I came out with this image that I really liked.

I might try a different light setup later tonight or tomorrow...

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What the water sees when I'm drinking it!

I've been experimenting a lot with my Blackberry Curve 8338 built-in camera and my Kenko Digital Wide 0.5X (SGW-05 PRO) lens wich I originally bought it for my Canon Optimus video camera couple of years ago, I'm fascinated with wide angle shots, so every time I have a spare time I look around to get new shots.



I'm still cleanning my laptop it has some viruses so not being able to use it, so I got thirsty and got this shot, placing the wide angle lens below the glass and voila!



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Joe "The Plumber"

I was on my way home when I found Joe "The Plumber's" truck, I think he already has a franchise here in SoCal!





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Car Washing

Car is a bit, little bit dirty, so I took it to the automatic car wash, now posting inside the tracks and waiting to get it clean!







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