Amami Superman Photography

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Mar 14, 2010

The Amazing Spiderdog

Posted by Amami Superman

Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 40mm, 1/640 sec, f/5.3, ISO 1600 -- EXIF

Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tail... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary dog, not a care in the world...

somebody lied.


Spiderdog, Spiderdog
Your friendly neighborhood Spiderdog
Spinning webs with her paws
Catching crooks with her jaws
Look out!
Here comes the Spiderdog

Feb 1, 2010

Shouma Kawabata

Posted by Amami Superman

Nikon D60, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, 1/250 sec, f/1.4, ISO 400 -- EXIF
ABC Worksheets


Nikon D60, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, 1/160 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 -- EXIF
Something Is Not Right

Shouma is one of my younger students. We provide a pick-up and drop-off service for some of our students and Shouma happens to be one of them. We usually drop him off at his grandparents' place which is almost at the top of a very narrow and steep street. I thought it would be cool to take a fun photo of him like this. My focus was pretty off in the second photo.

Jan 17, 2010

Isolated in Amami

Posted by Amami Superman

Mouse over the images to see the originals.

Nikon D60, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6 @ 116mm, 1/125 sec, f/4.8, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Going to Town


Nikon D60, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6 @ 135mm, 1/400 sec, f/5.0, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Windy

I had last Wednesday off, but it was cold and windy and I didn't want to go out. It was so cold that it hailed for a few seconds. It usually doesn't get that cold here in Amami. So instead of going out, I sat in my wife's shop and snapped shots of people walking by. The originals weren't that great so I tried to think of something to do to them to make them seem a little more artistic. I cruised around the interwebs looking for ideas and I came across a few photos that isolated the subject by turning all the colors besides the subject to black and white. I thought this would be something cool to try.

After importing my photos to Lightroom 2, I selected the Edit In feature and brought them into Photoshop CS3. I then made a duplicate of the background. I selected the background copy and used the Desaturate feature to make it black and white. Next, I adjusted the Contrast and Brightness to the desired effect I wanted. After that, I made an opacity mask of the background copy and commenced to hide the subject revealing the color image underneath. Once I finished, I saved it and returned to Lightroom 2 to do a few more tweeks upping the blacks and giving them some vignettes. I thought they turned out pretty nice compared to the originals.

I wanted to show the originals also but I didn't want to just stick the originals into the post so I decided to do a little html work and make some mouse-over images. I hope you like them.

Dec 17, 2009

Attack of the Squirrels

Posted by Amami Superman


Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 36mm, 1/30 sec, f/5.3, ISO 640 -- EXIF
RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!
The Squirrels Are Attacking!

While we were walking through the gift shop at Takachiho Farms, I came across a shelf full of stuffed squirrels. They had so many, it made me snicker so I took quick photo of them.

Jan 17, 2009

Night Time Fun

Posted by Amami Superman

Well, I pulled newb photographer move yesterday. I woke up early and headed out to take some morning sunrise pictures, drove for about 45 minutes, hiked up the beach to the spot I wanted to shoot from, got everything all set up only to find I forgot my camera battery on my desk at home. DOH!!!!

Anyways! So I had all my gear in the car and after work was finished, I decided to take Jade to a seaside park and mess around taking some long exposure pictures. We brought a flashlight thinking that would be fun to run around in the dark and this is one of the pictures that turned out decent.

I was using shutter speed priority of 30 seconds, ISO 200 and the aperture on auto. I used these settings for all the photos I took last night.

After running around with the flashlight, I thought it would be cool to take some pictures making some symbols or writing.

I don't know why an anarchy symbol popped into my head but as I was waving the light around in a big circle I thought, "Oh, lets to that."

I then thought it would be cool to try and make some fake ghost pictures. It was pretty fun doing that with Jade.

So that was the fun we had last night. When we got back it was a little after 10:00PM and Jade fell asleep in the car. As I was editing these pictures to show you I decided to get my revenge and go take some sunrise pictures the next morning. I'll post those in a different post next.