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Donald’s Light Painting and more…

3 Commentsby   |  09.29.11  |  Lightpainting Fort Griffin, Spring 2011

Had a tremendous time with all of you!






Kyle’s Lightpainting

1 Commentby   |  09.27.11  |  Lightpainting Fort Griffin, Spring 2011

I’ve been using Apple’s Aperture software for more control over exposure after the fact. Many of you may have been wondering about shooting RAW. These are larger files than the basic JPEGs we started shooting, but the nice thing is you have much more control over brightening or darkening exposure in each photo. The nice thing that Aperture brings to the table is the ability to use “brushes” to selectively apply changes to only certain parts of the image without having to pull the image into something like Photoshop.

Feel free to ask if you’re interested in help from Learning Studio staff in improving your photos once you bring them back to your computer.

Fort Griffin Lightpainting
Lightpainting workshop led by Nil Santana outside of Albany, Texas with faculty from ACU. Sponsored by the AT&T Learning Studio.
Fort Griffin Lightpainting
Lightpainting workshop led by Nil Santana outside of Albany, Texas with faculty from ACU. Sponsored by the AT&T Learning Studio.
Lightpainting workshop led by Nil Santana outside of Albany, Texas with faculty from ACU. Sponsored by the AT&T Learning Studio.

Previous shoot in June

0 Commentsby   |  09.27.11  |  Lightpainting Fort Griffin, Spring 2011

Here are a couple from the scouting trip with Nil and Donald in June. You can see what a big difference it makes shooting the same locations with the moon in play. Of course, it also made it significantly easier doing basic things like focusing and changing settings on the camera.



Laura’s pic

2 Commentsby   |  09.26.11  |  Lightpainting Fort Griffin, Spring 2011

Lightpainting at Fort Griffin

3 Commentsby   |  09.24.11  |  Lightpainting Fort Griffin, Spring 2011

This September we took a group of advanced photographers–and aspiring advanced photographers–out to Albany, Texas, to shoot the big sky. Nil Santana again worked to help participants get the most out of their cameras and find an original point of view. To see some of their work, see the Previous Workshops section in the sidebar.

Thanks so much to Tecia and to Sandra and Ben from the Learning Studio for their expert painting. The pictures I’ve seen so far are stunning.

More Behind the Scenes – Donald

0 Commentsby   |  04.15.11  |  Behind the Scenes, Photography Gruene, Spring 2011













Behind the Scenes 2 – MW / KD

0 Commentsby   |  04.15.11  |  Behind the Scenes, Photography Gruene, Spring 2011

A few more casual pics on Mike’s Canon 5D with a Zeis 50mm, f1.4 lens.

Gruene Hall performers

0 Commentsby   |  04.10.11  |  Photography Gruene, Spring 2011









Behind the Scenes KD – Spring

2 Commentsby   |  04.10.11  |  Behind the Scenes, Photography Gruene, Spring 2011

*One other option available for displaying your photos is the WordPress Gallery feature. For help setting one up, here is a short video intro to WP galleries.

Jana’s photos

2 Commentsby   |  10.21.10  |  Photography Gruene, Fall 2010

Thanks again for a great week end and wonderful class. I really appreciated being included in everything as a spouse. What a treat!
Jana



Kyle Dickson's Comment Archive

  1. Kyle Dickson on Lighted Chimney
    3:41 pm, 04.20.12

    Remind me who was crouched down at the bottom of the chimney, completely ruining your shot. Is that me or Dan?

  2. Kyle Dickson on Autumn's Ft. Phantom Hill Photos
    3:39 pm, 04.20.12

    Love the profile of Michael while we were taking his other portrait. Got to say, lightpainting at dusk was far more interesting than I expected.

    Still love the fireplace shots. Gorgeous.

  3. Kyle Dickson on Pybus Portfolio
    5:12 pm, 03.06.12

    Lots of folks found ways to take the iconic images of a water tower, a windmill, or the facade of the dance hall and help us see them again. Love the reflections shot. What time of day was that? Seems to blend from day to night across the image.

  4. Kyle Dickson on Places by Kenny Jones
    5:10 pm, 03.06.12

    Great weekend all the way around. Thanks to everyone for posting pics. I absolutely love the contrast of intertwining branches and architectural stability playing off of one another. Great images that focus our attention.

  5. Kyle Dickson on Behind the scenes (nil)
    6:11 pm, 03.05.12

    I like being turned into an apparition in the nighttime shot. We certainly need to take another group out for lightpainting this spring. Let’s look at dates for Fort Phantom.

  6. Kyle Dickson on Suanna Davis pictures
    11:32 pm, 10.24.11

    Lots of great images here, but I love how the windmill slowly emerges out of the tree. Really nice image.

    Thank Ron for us for sharing his expertise along the way as well.

  7. Kyle Dickson on All God's Creatures
    11:07 pm, 10.24.11

    I’m looking into the glitch in the post by email that gives me all the credit for everyone’s work, but who shot the animals (not literally)?

  8. Kyle Dickson on CBP Gruene Photos
    10:49 pm, 10.24.11

    Love the surface of the water in the pump pic and the divided left-turn sign in the reflection. Thanks to the Powells for joining us during a busy weekend. Great shots.

  9. Kyle Dickson on behind the scenes
    12:48 am, 10.24.11

    Love this tribute to the cameras that make it all possible. My dad said tonight that the first camera he ever bought was an Argus that captured our first family pictures from their wedding on, replaced soon by a Mamiya with removable lenses and slide film. I’ve owned many cameras but was thinking this weekend about the first digital cameras that grew up alongside my children–some of the first pictures of my son were taken on a Sony Mavica that saved 640×480 images to floppy disk.

    For all the ways that photography is about much more than just gear, cameras can become uniquely personal tools.

  10. Kyle Dickson on Bob's light painting pics
    11:00 am, 09.28.11

    The first shot is really striking. I think you’ll be surprised by some of the visual information that is in there once you get this into your software. Were you shooting RAW or JPEG?