Sep 24

Football Portraits

By Nathan Firebaugh | Canon 60D, Canon 6D, Composite Photography, HDR Photography, Lightroom 5, Photography, Photography Blog, Photoshop, Portraits, Virginia | No Comments

Football Portraits

This year my son started a new sport Football so to bring in the new sport I shot a couple football portraits. This one is a composite portrait meaning the subject was shot in a studio location on a white background and then the background was swapped out later in Photoshop. I love shooting these things they are much different than my normal work! These allow me to mix the artistic backgrounds with a portrait, to create a one of a kind portrait.

For more information or if you’d like to have your own Sportrait session feel free to contact me.

Aug 02

A Visit To Bald Head Island

By Nathan Firebaugh | Landscapes, Lightroom 5, North Carolina, Photoshop, Sony A6000 | No Comments

Bald Head Island Is The Place To Be

I finally made it over on to Bald Head Island! Before this trip to the North Carolina coast the closest I had been to Bald Head Island was just across the water on Oak Island. Some of you may have seen the photograph I took from here looking over at Old Baldy. The island is full of beautiful scenery and you get to rent golf carts to ride around in for the day! It has a nice quiet feel complete with beautiful beaches, nature trails, great restaurants and fun for everyone. I can’t wait for my next visit to the island there are still a few things I’d like to do like kayak all the marshes close to the boat house and photograph the birds.

Now here’s a shot I took from the West End of the island of Old Baldy.

Jul 08

Salem Fair Fireworks

By Nathan Firebaugh | Canon 6D, Light Painting, Lightroom 5, Photography, Virginia | No Comments

4th Of July Fireworks

I spent the evening at the Salem Fair Fireworks show for the 4th of July photographing all of the beautiful lights and motion. The setup I used for this photograph was my Canon 6D with the 17-40mm F4L mounted on a Inudro tripod and I controlled the exposure with my Promote Control. Some of the problems you have to deal with in a situation like this is finding a balance between the lights of the rides and fair grounds and the fireworks. By using a manual shutter hold on the remote I could quickly look at the histogram and see immediately if I need to lengthen or shorten my exposure.

I also had a second camera setup Sony A6000 with the 16-50mm lens shooting a timelapse video using the Sony Timelapse App which can be found below.

Jun 25

Sony A6000 Leica Lens Test

By Nathan Firebaugh | Lightroom 5, Nature, Sony A6000, Virginia | No Comments

Testing The Leica 135mm F4 Tele Elmar

These are my first shots using the Leica 135mm F4 Tele Elmar lens on the Sony A6000. Well in this Sony A6000 Leica Lens Test right off the bat I could tell these images were sharper than the 16-50mm that came in the kit. I’m using the Metabones Leica M to Sony E mount adapter to allow this lens to be used on the A6000. The lens is manual focus but focus peaking still works! Also another thing I found is even though the lens is manual aperture also all of the shooting modes seem to still work, like intelligent auto still does a fairly good job even without any lens electronics. Below are a couple quick shots I grabbed while testing the lens out.

Jun 09

Late Spring At The Old Mill

By Nathan Firebaugh | Canon 6D, Canon HDR Photography, HDR Photography, HDR Software, Landscapes, Lightroom 5, NIK, Photography, Photomatix, Tennessee, Topaz Clarity, Travel | No Comments

The Old Mill – Pigeon Forge, TN

I had a quick visit to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park a few weeks back… more for relaxation than photography this time around. But I still had my gear with me and managed to shoot a few photographs during the trip. This is one of the Old Mill around sunset while a couple guys were fishing in the water below. The Old Mill is a really neat place to visit if you’re ever in Pigeon Forge Tennessee.

Jun 08

Crabtree Falls

By Nathan Firebaugh | Canon 6D, Landscapes, Lightroom 5, NIK, Photography, Photoshop, Travel, Virginia | No Comments

Chasing Waterfalls

I went out with a few photography friends yesterday to spend the day photographing a few waterfalls here in Virginia. Our first stop was at Crabtree Falls located in Nelson County, this set of falls is one to the tallest sets of waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. The climb isn’t too bad even though the light we were working with didn’t allow us to hike to the very top. The trail is a pretty clean path and has railings to keep people off the dangerously slick rocks around the falls. I made my way out to a semi safe spot and took this shot looking away from the falls.

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