To Dream of Magick

Light, Refracted

Sometimes beautiful pictures are of very simple objects. A bottle, a candle, and the dinner table.

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I bike through Austin and I carry a camera because of things like this. I never know when I will see something amazing.

In this case, I had worked extremely late. I think I left work around 9pm this night, and on my way home I heard a rustling sound on my right. So, I looked into Zilker Park and saw this structure, something I had never seen before. Dozens of plastic sheets suspended by clotheslines in the wind. There was quite a bit of wind that night, so the scene kept billowing and falling, over and over.

I encountered this two nights in a row. The first night I had only my camera, so I shot as best I could handheld. Those shots were actually remarkably good given the lack of light, but when I got back the next night with a tripod and a wide angle lens, I was able to get even better.

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This is just an example of the buildings going up downtown. The shell is not on yet, and so we have a column of lights leading up, with every level nearly identical.

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Emptiness

There is nothing empty about downtown, and yet, this area of the federal courthouse downtown never has anybody walking through it at night.

This photograph, “Emptiness, 2013-01″, is copywritten by Savanni D’Gerinel and is available under a Creative Commons, By Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license. If you like this picture, please tell a friend about it, link to it from Facebook, Tweet about it, or add my weblog to your feed reader. I specialize in still life and landscape photography and gladly take requests. You can also license my work for commercial purposes or commission me for custom work. Just send me an email.

Howdy, everyone! It’s been a long time since I last posted, so I did a lot of photography work today, cleared out some of my backlog (not a lot of it… I have a LOT of backlog) and posted this photograph.

This photograph comes from the early days of playing Ingress and wandering about the Texas capital grounds. It also comes right after I first read Light Painted Night Photography and I was starting to practice a little. I have no idea what this sculpture is called as I do not recall any of the normal artist plaque there, but I think it is pretty cool.

About this shot…

The capital grounds are very well illuminated at night. Most of the light was behind me at this point. I shot this at F/8, ISO 100, with a 15 second exposure on my 50mm prime lens. I put an air Flowlight into the bowl itself. I also put a “Steel Grey” gel on my flash unit. While the lens was open, with my flash on half power (I think… I actually forget at this point) I ran a little to the left of the camera, manually popped the flash, and then did the same from the right.

I don’t have many successful light painted photos yet, but I am continuing to work on it. The art is fun, but challenging. And flash photography takes a lot of getting used to.

This photograph, “Caged Blue, 2013-01″, is copywritten by Savanni D’Gerinel and is available under a Creative Commons, By Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license. If you like this picture, please tell a friend about it, link to it from Facebook, Tweet about it, or add my weblog to your feed reader. I specialize in still life and landscape photography and gladly take requests. You can also license my work for commercial purposes or commission me for custom work. Just send me an email.

This photograph is actually of Pedernales Falls proper. I took this on my trip back in September. It turns out that nature photos like this can be very difficult to run through the HDR processing and still get natural-looking results.

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Are you thirsty? There are certainly enough water fountains here. This is underneath Mopac on the Lady Bird Lake trail… where a lot of very, very hot people work out every day.

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These glasses hang over the bar at the downtown Austin Java, making a fantastic effect.

This ends the series of photographs from my trip out with the Austin Photography Adventure group.