Despite the storm, parents pushed their strollers through the snow and made it to the shoot. We were at Little Closets for almost 3 hours with the kids and as always we had a lot of fun.
Here is a short video showing what happened today at Little Closets.
Thanks again to Little Closets for letting this happen.
I’ve been getting very good deals through twitter and recently I saw the opportunity to get a free canvas 16×20 gallery wrap with Zaza Gallery in exchange for advertising them on my blog. Since I’m a canvas-lover I decided to do it.
After completing a few requirements and e-mailing the digital file, I received my canvas 13 days after their confirmation (CA-NY)
I have to admit that I completely forgot about it and since this wasn’t an formal order through their website, I didn’t receive a shipping confirmation, I was surprised to receive a big FedEx package with a canvas well protected in bubble wrap.
The colors and the texture are great, I submitted a very bright and colorful image and it really fulfilled my expectations.
Here you can kind of see the texture of the canvas:
I asked for a gallery wrap, which means that the picture is wrapped around the edges:
The only thing that I’m not 100% happy with is the finish on the back of the canvas, in the end doesn’t matter too much since we’re not looking at it when it’s on the wall, but I’m being honest and don’t want to hide any detail. It’s not a big deal but I’m comparing with the canvases that I have from 2 different companies (including two that I got for free), both of them have the back of the canvas very well finished.
You can see the picture next:
Another detail is that didn’t come with the screws or sticky thing to hang it on the wall, but that’s not a problem.
Overall I’ll give them 4 stars just for those details that easily can be fixed. The canvas itself is great and the most important is the image and it came out excellent, I checked their website and the prices are very low, it’s definitely a good deal for the quality that you’re getting. I’m going to do my next order with them.
Links: Zaza Gallery – http://www.zazagallery.com – Canvas prints
Zaza Gallery Blog http://zazagallery.com/blog/
January 14th, 2010
Water is always great and today I played with it again…
Theme: Macro Abstract
Equipment: D40x, Sb-800, yellow gel (intense), tripod
Settings on camera:
Exposure:0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture:f/14.0
Focal Length:55 mm (18-55mm)
ISO Speed:100
Exposure Bias:0 EV
The way I did this is not the most precise way to do it, but it’s a way to show that can be done with a little equipment as possible.
I’ve seen some videos about how to shoot water drops or water splashes but like a lot of people, I don’t have a lot of equipment so I have to do it with whatever I have handy and in theory you don’t need much.
At the beginning I was going to do this with a plastic bag (so the water would drop in the same spot) but I couldn’t find anything to hold it from above my setup, so that’s why I just held the bottle of water myself and tried to get the focus right =)
Materials: clear bowl, plastic bottle with cap, home made reflector. My regular reflector was too big for my setup so I used a home-made reflector (cardboard and aluminum paper).
-First I opened a small hole into the cap of the bottle (don’t try this at home =))
-I filled the bottle up completely with water and I just filled the clear bowl up a little more than half.
-Put the yellow gel on the SB-800 and pointed it at the reflector
-Set the camera on the tripod and tried some shots. At the beginning I had trouble finding the right focus and the best thing that worked for me was the plastic bottle (you can use a pen or something else to get the focus). I took a picture and locked the focus there.
-Once that I had my focus ready (after trying a lot) I started to shoot and shoot.
Links:
How to photograph a splash of water {link}
20-minute portrait session
Equipment:
D40x, 18-55mm lens, SB-800 and Zumbrella.
Settings:
Exposure 1/100
F 5.6
ISO 200
Post-production: Lightroom 2.5
Last week at the Gantries we enjoyed Irish music with Dave Barckow & Mazz Swift-Camlett
Mazz
Dave
One of the biggest crowd this summer…
Enjoy the rest of the pictures
Tomorrow we’ll have Afrodita featuring Hector Morales
Afro-Peruvian Pop
More in www.liveatthegantries.com
Live at the Gantries 2009 just started with the Hungry March Band!
They just came from a tour in France and they got everybody dancing at the Gantries.
If you want to know more about the Hungry March Band go to hungrymarchband.com.
If you missed it, enjoy the pictures and don’t miss the next show at the gantries with Chinese Theater Works.
Check the rest of the pics:
Performances to go:
Chinese Theatre Works
Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00pm
Earthdriver
Tuesday, June 30 at 7:00pm
Robert Royston Dance and Ephrat Asherie
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00pm
Dave Barckow & Mazz Swift-Camlett
Tuesday, July 14 at 7:00pm
Afrodita featuring Hector Morales
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00pm
Pachmama Peruvian Arts
Tuesday, July 28 at 7:00pm
Kimati Dinizulu Organic Duet
Tuesday, August 4 at 7:00pm
Vanishing Point: Zach Morris and Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects
Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00pm
Silbin Sandovar Revue
Tuesday, August 18 at 7:00pm
Live At The Gantries 2009
The series Live at the Gantries returns this summer full of energy and very diverse performance:
Starting Sunday 14th, 2009 till August 18th, 2009
If you missed last year show, (take a look at the pictures) you can’t miss this year, it’s coming better than ever.
June 14 – Hungry March Band, Street Bass Marching Band
August 11 – Third Rail Projects, Site-Specific Dance
June 23 – Chinese Theater Works, Chinese Theater and Dance
June 30 – Earthdriver, Spoken Word, Soul, and Hip-Hop
July 7 – Royston Dance Co. with Ephrat Asherie, Interactive Swing, Tango and Break Dancing
July 14 – Dave Barckow & Mazz Swift-Camlett
July 21 – Afrodita, Latin Jazz
July 28- Pachamama Peruvian Arts
August 18 – Silbin Sandovar Revue, Queens Indie Rock All-stars
Yesterday was the Press conference to announce the event, and we enjoyed a small but super great performance of the “Chinese Theater Works”
And Hector Morales – “Pachamama Peruvian Arts”
To see the rest of the pictures click here
The Queensborough bridge celebrated its 100th anniversary and I camped in the Gantries of Long Island City (for about 2 hours) to get a good spot to see the fireworks.
Enjoy some of the images that I took.
Alina Chuyko
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Tal Peer
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Tania Green
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Lauren Efron
He has more than 15 years in the same spot.
Tampa, Florida
April 2009
Bird watching
Arianys Wilson Photography.
