Look Who is One!
May 12th, 2008
My baby Alyssa turned ONE last Wednesday!
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Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge
May 11th, 2008
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Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge
May 11th, 2008
Black Point Stone Building
May 10th, 2008
Black Point, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.
This is an old stone building near Scarborough beach.
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Black Point
May 6th, 2008
Black Point, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.
Another one of my landscape photos from the Dykinga workshop.
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NRICC Wins the 2008 Multi-Screen Competition
May 3rd, 2008
Northern RI Camera Club, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.
Congratulations to all of the photographer’s that entered photos in the 2008 multi-screen competition. NRICC defeated Quinebaug Valley Camera Club and the favorite Photographic Society of Rhode Island. NRICC had 9 first place wins out of the 24 categories and won the competition with a score of 46. The other two clubs scored 49.
Mike Zeis had 2 first place images.
Gary Detonnancourt had 2 first place images.
Deb Bettencourt had 2 first place images.
Denise Lincourt and / or William Lincourt had 2 first place images.
Leeanne Richard had 1 first place image.
Plus we had many great second place images.
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Black Point
May 2nd, 2008
IMG_4871, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.
This was one of my favorite photos from the Dykinga workshop because it doesn’t look like Rhode Island the large rock and the big sky make it feel like its from somewhere out west. I alos like the side lighting on the rock.
I used a wide angle lens on a tripod, low to the ground, and a circular polarizer to bring out the color in the sky.
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Jack Dykinga Workshop
May 2nd, 2008
workshop, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.
Last week I went to a workshop in Rhode Island put on by PSRI and lead by Jack Dykinga. Jack is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer that currently shoots landscape photos for National Geographic. Here are some of the place we visited:
Beavertail State Park (with the lighthouse); sunrise and sunset
Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge; sunrise
Windmill in Jamestown; sunset
Black Point (on Ocean Road in Narragansett); sunrise
Stay tuned and I’ll post some of my shots from the workshop.
The photo above shows a tired group of Workshop Attendees. We were at our locations every mourning by 5am. Jack is the one with the pointy hat and I’m the on in the Dolphins hat.
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Ava
April 12th, 2008
DIY: Turkey Pan Beauty Dish
April 9th, 2008
A beauty dish is used to shoot people with good skin like children or models. Its light is like a softbox but with a little more snap to it. They can cost about $100 to $300 depending on the brand. You can check out an inexpensive beauty dish from Alien Bees at the address below.
http://www.alienbees.com/22r.html
My turkey pan beauty dish is inexpensive if you already have a Gary Fong Lighsphere. First I painted the inside of the turkey pan with white paint. Some people have used white duct tape instead of paint. Next I cut a hole in a turkey pan and fit the lightsphere through it snugly. Then I covered the cap of the lightsphere with some heavy duty aluminum foil.
Here is an image taken with the turkey pan beauty dish. Notice the soft light on her face but the loop shadow near her nose is crisp and not soft like from a softbox. Also you might notice the light falls off to the left side of her face because the main light was a little to the right of camera. I also used a strip softbox behind and to the left of the young girl. This gives the highlights on the left side of her face and body. The third light was a background light placed down low in order to blow out the bottom of the background and have it gradually rise toward a darker pink at the top.
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