Aug 24, 2007, 22:40
There are five of these old Spanish Missions in San Antonio, the most famous being The Alamo.
This is the biggest and most-intact, and all except the Alamo still serve their parishoners.
Since the National Park Service closes the gates at 5pm night shooting (my favorite kind of photography) isn't possible, so I purposely tried to use as many of my other favorite techniques as possible.
First, regular color (with a CP filter):
Low light, low iso color--1/5th second shutter so I had to wedge my tripod in a tight space next to the piano:
(One of the rare times I had bad purple fringing--around the windows--but I got rid of it).
Before leaving I realized I still needed a macro, which is when I remembered the bronze scale model out front:
An infrared version of one of the color photos above:
Since this composition doesn't really "work" in 2D I shot a stereo pair to make this 3D. Instead of blending-in, the stone corner in front separates from the background rather well. (You have to cross your eyes until the 3D image appears in the middle to see the effect):
Daylight Long Exposure--the waterwheel turns a grinding stone in the mill upstairs, for demonstrations. I felt a long exposure suited the subject best so used some ND filters to lengthen the shutter time:
Off-camera flash portrait:
I used a slave flash as the main light camera-right, triggered by a flash unit on the hotshoe.
It was a very busy visit with all of the filters and mode changes and tripod adjustments and setting up the 2 flashes, but the results were worth the trouble in my opinion.
This is the biggest and most-intact, and all except the Alamo still serve their parishoners.
Since the National Park Service closes the gates at 5pm night shooting (my favorite kind of photography) isn't possible, so I purposely tried to use as many of my other favorite techniques as possible.
First, regular color (with a CP filter):
Low light, low iso color--1/5th second shutter so I had to wedge my tripod in a tight space next to the piano:
(One of the rare times I had bad purple fringing--around the windows--but I got rid of it).
Before leaving I realized I still needed a macro, which is when I remembered the bronze scale model out front:
An infrared version of one of the color photos above:
Since this composition doesn't really "work" in 2D I shot a stereo pair to make this 3D. Instead of blending-in, the stone corner in front separates from the background rather well. (You have to cross your eyes until the 3D image appears in the middle to see the effect):
Daylight Long Exposure--the waterwheel turns a grinding stone in the mill upstairs, for demonstrations. I felt a long exposure suited the subject best so used some ND filters to lengthen the shutter time:
Off-camera flash portrait:
I used a slave flash as the main light camera-right, triggered by a flash unit on the hotshoe.
It was a very busy visit with all of the filters and mode changes and tripod adjustments and setting up the 2 flashes, but the results were worth the trouble in my opinion.