Sunrise at Virginia Beach this past weekend.
Those Aren’t Stars!
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Roanoke River
Monday, August 29, 2011
I made some time to sneak off and take a few photos last night. I decided to go down to the river since I knew the sunset wouldn't be good because there were no clouds.
The river was low enough that I could actually walk down it part ways to get this shot. It was about a quarter mile off the Roanoke River Greenway in downtown Roanoke.
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Poker Cards
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Been a while since I posted. Band and school are starting back up, so that has taken a lot of my time. Hope to be a little more regular with the blog posting soon.
Cards laid out on a ship in Williamsburg, VA. I took this while on vacation this summer.
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Lincoln Memorial
Monday, July 25, 2011
Reprocessing old photos again. This was from our trip to DC a couple of summers ago before Rachel was born. DC is a great place to visit, just be prepared to walk, a lot.
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Church HDR
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I've been messing around with HDR a little lately. I love what it does to the clouds.
In case you don't know what HDR is, it stands for High Dynamic Range. Basically it's combining 3 different exposures (one normal exposure, one over-exposed, and one under-exposed) of the same image into one image.
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How I Shoot Fireworks
Sunday, July 3, 2011
With the Fourth of July being tomorrow, I though I would share how I photograph fireworks. It's relatively easy as long as you have a few essentials.
First, you obviously need a camera, but you also need to be able to access the manual settings on the camera itself. Some point and shoot cameras will let you do this as well.
Secondly, you need a tripod since you will be probably be shooting for at least 4 or 5 seconds.
Whatever lens(es) you have will work. But if you have more than one, you have some options as far as what you want them to look like. I shot the photo below with a telephoto lens. All you get is the firework itself, nothing else.
In this photo, I used a wide lens and got a silhouette of some of the trees in the shot.
Basically when you shoot fireworks, you want to have a long enough exposure to capture the trails of light. I usually start with my camera set up like this: Aperture- f11, Shutter speed- 4 seconds, ISO- 200. Then I vary up my shutter speeds to get different looks and combinations of fireworks. If you have a 10 second or so shutter speed you can get more than one firework in the same frame.
If you start there, you can adjust depending on what look you're going for. I used a 20 second exposure for the above photo. Be careful not to go too long or it could look messy like the one below.
For the finale, you need to use shorter shutter speeds so the photo doesn't become a big ball of light. This one was only 4 seconds and it was too long.
Anyways, if you're still reading by now, you must be interested so I hope this was a help.
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Windmills
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Windmill farm just north of Indianapolis, IN. There were hundreds of these things. Just wish I had more time here, but they were right along the interstate and we were just passing through.
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I'm giving away a photo session
Thursday, June 9, 2011
In celebration of the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a free photo session. To enter, head on over to my facebook page- http://www.facebook.com/dustinmccollumphotography
These are some photos from a senior portrait session a couple of weeks ago. We did these in downtown Roanoke. I really like downtown for portraits. So many possibilities!
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