http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:25:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I posted my finished "book" project for the Solo Photo Book Month (aka SoFoBoMo) a few weeks ago but with work and vacations I never got around to mentioning it on this blog. From the web site - "SoFoBoMo is short for Solo Photo Book Month - a group event where ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/06/28/sofobomo/ Yachats, Oregon This is an image I posted a week or so ago on my flickr account. It is three 30 minute exposures at ISO 400 stacked to lengthen the star trails. As I mentioned on flickr, I completely forgot that for exposures of this length it's really important ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/04/15/dark-frame-subtraction/ This image from Yachats, Oregon, was included in the Collective Visions 2009 show in Bremerton, Washington. The show is up now and runs through Feb 27. The print is 12x12 inches mounted to 16x20. The print was made on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta paper at Custom Digital. ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/02/04/cvg-2009-bremerton-wa/ A couple of night photographer friends and extreme light painters are putting on a weekend workshop in the California desert at the Pearsonville Junk Yard on March 7th and 8th so if you're interested in learning about light painting be sure to check it out. If you're wondering why ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/01/20/light-painting-workshop-troy-paiva-and-joe-reifer/ Cedar Flat, Lake Tahoe, California I don't really consider this an example of what most people think of when they hear the term "light painting" but I, with the help of my brother who didn't complain about standing in the heavy snow for a couple hours, did add light from an ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/01/14/light-painting/ 520 Interchange, Montlake Neighborhood, Seattle Night photography in the snow has been a great opportunity to try out the higher ISO ranges of the 5D2. While it is possible to produce smooth, nearly noiseless images using longer exposures, image averaging, noise reduction, etc, I wanted to be able to use ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2009/01/05/3200/ The photo used in the samples below was taken a week and a half ago on the Washington Coast. The moon was about first quarter and the clouds were really thick so there really wasn't a lot of light. I wanted to at least get a few images ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2008/12/16/5d-mark-ii-real-noise-tests/ Gasworks Park, Seattle, WA This is a photo from behind "The Mound" at Gasworks Park. This was taken a couple nights before the most recent full moon - which despite being the largest full moon of the year was no match for the marine layer of clouds and rain so ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2008/12/14/gasworks-park/ I may be the last one to have figured this out but it's new to me so I'm posting it anyway. It's really easy to get rid of the "speckly" noise I pointed out in the last couple posts using the Dust & Scratches filter in Photoshop. My ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2008/12/12/dust-scratches/ Ocean Shores, Washington Some of you may remember the photos I posted a year ago (wow!) with seagulls taking bread out of a friend's hand... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2007/12/16/washington-cost/ http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2008/01/24/inquiringmind-focus/ Well this year I was the hand model and the camera was the 5D2. I can tell you this camera is heavy enough that it's very ... http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com/blog/2008/12/10/canon-5d-mark-ii-first-real-image/