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Riverside Lunar Fest 2014faces

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Some of the most elaborate costumes can be seen at the Cosplay Fashion Show.
Some of the most elaborate costumes can be seen at the Cosplay Fashion Show.

 

Michelle Mora posed for this quick portrait when I met her at the steps of the Municipal Auditorium.
Michelle Mora posed for this quick portrait when I met her at the steps of the Municipal Auditorium.

Each year I look forward to the one-day event that is the Asian Pacific Lunarfest in downtown Riverside.

This year’s celebration took place on Saturday Jan 25.

It’s been over a month and I just realized I never got around to posting any of those pictures.

The day itself was actually warm about 80℉ as I recall.

This festival is very photogenic because of the variety of costumes and cultures involved. Continue reading Riverside Lunar Fest 2014faces →

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Faces from Dickens Fest 2014

For this image of this couple, I persuaded them to come to a better location allowing me to use the setting sun as a rim light. I then set my Speedlite on the right just outside of the frame. I found a convenient spot to set the Speedlite. The Speedlite was set to 1/8th power to match available light of 1/200 sec @f 5.6 ISO 100.
For this image of this couple, I persuaded them to come to a better location allowing me to use the setting sun as a rim light. I then set my Speedlite on the right just outside of the frame. I found a convenient spot to set the Speedlite. The Speedlite fitted with a 1/4 Color Temperature Orange gel  was set to 1/8th power to match available light of 1/200 sec @f 5.6 ISO 100. I used the Canon STE-3-RT to trigger the Speedlite.  See the setup diagram below.To see this picture larger, click on it.

Every year I try to make it downtown during the Dickens Festival.

The site for this year’s festivities was the pedestrian mall on Main Street between city hall and University Ave.

I arrived around 3:30p when the light was perfect. Continue reading Faces from Dickens Fest 2014 →

Photography

Don’t overlook those places everyone frequents for their pictures

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I can't recall the last time I actively went in search for wild life. I happened across this cattle egret in the late evening sun in Fairmount Park. See the other two pictures taken within 30 feet of this spot.
I can’t recall the last time I actively went in search for wild life. I happened across this cattle egret in the late evening sun in Fairmount Park. See the other two pictures taken within 30 feet of this spot.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop making pictures.

When my cameras were burned to a crisp inside a bus where I narrowly escaped with my life in Los Angeles, I was sick to my stomach for weeks.

The camera bodies that were incinerated were motorized Minolta XD7s with a complement of lenses and flash units.

I remember being in a shuttle bus with about 18 other Singapore Airline cabin crew members on our way from the Bonaventure Hotel to LAX when smoke filled the cabin. Continue reading Don’t overlook those places everyone frequents for their pictures →

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Late evening light for location portraits

Jackie Zapata was all decked out in her costume. All I needed to do was find a good spot to place her to highlight the costume in the fading daylight.
Jackie Zapata was all decked out in her costume. All I needed to do was find a good spot to place her to highlight the costume in the fading daylight. Canon 5DM2 ISO 400 1/750 sec @F2.8 80-200zoom set at 170mm

Sometimes the best portraits of people can’t be created in the studio.

Sometimes, they can only be done on location.

By the time the props and the matching backdrops are brought in, the whole photo shoot becomes a huge production.

So, it’s easier to take the picture on location. Continue reading Late evening light for location portraits →