Sharing The Roijoy

On my way to a meeting, I glanced the other way up the road where I had parked my car. I immediately saw a scene that could offer some nice compositions for some stock photography. This action was taking place too far up the road in the opposite direction for me to go in for a closer look, and still be on time for my meeting. I happened to have a Nikon 800 in my camera bag with a 70 - 200mm lens attached. Very quickly I was able to capture a few frames without diverting up the road and I would let the resolution of the Nikon give me some options for the final crop. Above you can see the frame I captured for the image at the top of the page. The final crop is shown as a lighter rectangular area within the scene. From the various frames I captured this was the tightest I went to  for a crop.  The Nikon 800 body can resolve at up to 36 megapixels.  When shooting to make the most of the camera's resolution, you have the latitude to make fairly aggressive crops to images and s...

We needed to have some pictures showing night scenes but logistics and model availability meant we could only shoot in the daytime. So what do I do? This first image was shot by the beach, in the Caribbean, at noon on a very sunny day. To achieve this look I changed the exposure setting on my camera away from what might be considered the complimentary setting for shooting in bright day light. I was going to have to do some retouching but wanted a good base image to work with. Light during nighttime often displays with a pronounced amount of blue, so capturing an image with lots of blue already in would be a good place for me to begin. So I set my camera light meter to read the light as if it was coming from a tungsten source. This would push the overall ambience toward a blue tone. However, I wanted to keep the skin tones warm and not blue. To make this happen, I shot with a speedlite and set the lighting to expose the foreground only. I also put an orange filter on the f...