Friday's most popular photo is this shot I took of Will Johnson and Ryan Thomas Becker at Renfield's Corner in Uptown. Will played an amazing set and I decided to get a photo of him with Ryan afterwards since they look similar.
It was a little awkward for all involved, but they were champs about it!
This photo is from the counter-protest that happened in response to the Westboro Baptist Church visit.
The church's first stop was the Holocaust Museum in downtown Dallas. About 150 counter protesters showed up to show off some creative signs.
Today's photo comes all the way from 2006 - back when my only digital camera was a little point and shoot Sony.
It's not the greatest photo of Dallas, but it seems to be popular with the search engines.
Today's photo is from a recent show by the local band Bobgoblin, easily one of my favorite bands. They put on a great show at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff and debuted a new song from an album they're currently working on. Can't wait to see them again and here more new tunes!
In an effort to post on my blog more often, I've decided to post an entry for the most popular photo from my Flickr photostream every day.
It's usually a pretty recent photo, but this one is from back in 2007.
I remember this night very well - Shibboleth had played at Sons of Hermann Hall and the DART rail was under construction. The white car in the picture made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in the construction.
Not sure why people are looking at this one again, but it's a nice blast from the past!
Last week, I decided to try using the Ray Flash ring flash adapter along with off-camera flashes - something I wanted to do in a studio setting but haven't had a chance to do yet. I used this setup at the Double Wide Parking Lot Pool Party, which took place in the parking lot of a local bar. I set up three off-camera flashes, which were triggered by Radio Poppers. The transmitter was plugged in to the PC port on my 5D, which left the hotshoe available for a 580 EXII with the Ray Flash adapter.
Ideally, the ring flash would provide fill, maybe 1 stop below the off-camera flashes. In a studio setting, this is easy to do since the lighting remains constant. Running around the parking lot, I set the ring flash to E-TTL, letting the camera determine the flash level. Since the light was different depending on where I was, the flash level wasn't consistent, but it always looked quite good.
The ring flash gave great fill-in light from the camera direction and with a little tweaking in Photoshop gives a lot of depth to the photos.
I plan on trying this setup again in a studio setting.
