JWilsonphoto wrote:
Speaking of photography that has water in it...............a math or so ago a gentleman called me asking me about swimming pool photography. I sent him some commercial/residential samples with a small blurb on how I approach that work. Last week he called me and it seems that he has a backlog of beautiful pool renovations/installations that he has had on hold while he found time to look for just the right guy to shoot them. This is going to be fun, the next project has 200K in landscape alone and he's working on one where his client is spending close to a million dollars, just on the landscape, plus the pool. He's a relatively small, high end custom designer/builder that focuses on the North Dallas and Park Cities areas. Should be some incredible outdoor living areas to capture, very exciting!
See why I have a hard time pulling the plug on this, "Life is like a box of chocolates.................." F.Gump
There must be some way that I can put a 5DSR in a Seacam enclosure to work on these projects...........Show more →
So ....how big a drone do you need to dunk a 5DSR / whatever + Seacam into a pool? You start the video sequence under water in the pool. You then pull out of the water and gently hover along the surface of the water, taking in all the fab landscaping. You finally arrive at the changing area and fad to black!
Glenn Watson wrote:
It was a pretty great few days! Anybody else attend ?
Glenn
I was there from Wednesday-Sunday(had to work Monday and Tuesday). Was my first and not my last AirVenture. Still sorting images and currently writing for my blog but here's one of Doc
Wrapped up the first shoot for my new pool and landscape design client. Judging from his reaction to this morning's images, and this evening teaser I just sent him, we're going to make beautiful music together!
The exif: 5DSR, 1.6 seconds @ f14, Canon 24mm PC Lens, two quarts of perspiration and one quart of blood to the mosquitos
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Wrapped up the first shoot for my new pool and landscape design client. Judging from his reaction to this morning's images, and this evening teaser I just sent him, we're going to make beautiful music together!
The exif: 5DSR, 1.6 seconds @ f14, Canon 24mm PC Lens, two quarts of perspiration and one quart of blood to the mosquitos
Like the way you've kept the tones in the foliage separated. As the light goes blue I find the grey - blue and green kinda merge into one.
BTW, apparently Mr Canon has some new / refreshed TSE lenses coming "soon".
nickjohnson wrote:
Like the way you've kept the tones in the foliage separated. As the light goes blue I find the grey - blue and green kinda merge into one.
BTW, apparently Mr Canon has some new / refreshed TSE lenses coming "soon".
Good Morning/Afternoon Nick,
Thanks! I sent some shots to the designer/builder yesterday saying the exact same thing. Those blue Spruces (though technically they aren't typical conical Blue Spruces) were a stroke of landscape genius. Normally everyone defaults to Nellie R. Stevens Hollies, nice but hardly unique. His crew is putting the finishing touches on one of the huge projects I mentioned, should be capturing that in a week or two.
I'm sure everyone has seen the teaser pre-announcements on the Nikon 850. They don't really telly us anything, but I'm sure it will be a great camera. Once again the Nikon/Canon oneupmanship cycle will have Nikon in the lead for a while. Hope Canon doesn't let it go on for as long as they did with the D800/810 series. Unless the 850 is a truly remarkable advance that is head and shoulders above the 5DSR it's unlikely that I'd go through all of that again. All the rumblings indicate Canon will do something big in the next year with the SR platform. Sheesh! I had better choose wisely if I'm going to invest 8G's in an U/W housing!!! Don't want to be morphing camera body styles for a while after I do that.
This is a great shot and together with your blue Spruce narrative it's clear why this builder knows he has exactly the right man for the job ...
What I really love (besides the Spruce) is your little touches --- the slight blur in the pool and the reflected light in wet tile (under clear skies).
A shot I took last year, and had printed on canvas, got selected for a very selective art show here in town. Only 25 artists selected, so I'm super excited, but super nervous. I have to sit at the venue tonight that my photo is going to be on display for the next two weeks, and "talk about my art". The photo I shot, I took with the ancient D3 and 24-70 lens, and since I'd left my tripod in the car, handheld it on a rail for the 2 second exposure Winner gets a small cash prize and a gallery display. There's some sort of voting thing online, so I'll post that link when they make it live.
