I was out shooting some Holga portraits the other day and ended up going by the Blue Hen Mall in Dover. Several hundred motorcycles were there staging for a ride to Rehoboth for a fund raiser. This was like the heavenly choirs opened up for me since I had done one Holga image of a City of Dover Harley a while back and really wanted to do some when the chance came up.
I also wanted to do some Off Camera Flash stuff with motorcycles as I had in the past with my brother in law Jim.
Anyways I approached some folks whose name might be Bob and Stephi H of Maryland. Or it might not. Maybe they’re really named something else. Maybe they’re part of the Blue Knights Law Enforcement Motor Cycle Club International’s Fund Raiser for Special Olympics in Dover Del. on Sunday 17 April 2011. It’s really hard for me to say.
They were game and we had some fun moving their bike to an area with a little less background clutter. I asked their friend to act as a voice activated light stand and got this image with a little off camera flash action. The Motor Cycle is a 2011 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic Limited, Light & Dark Root Beer in color W/ Metal Flake Paint.
Thanks Bob and Stephi. If that’s your real names!
There is something seriously wrong with me, seriously, seriously wrong!
I was up at 4 am (thus the “seriously, seriously wrong” movie reference) to go photograph the sunrise at Sandy Point State Park near Annapolis Maryland this morning. I met up with another photographer before sunrise and we set up for the shoots we like to do. JC likes to do HDR stuff. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. He takes anywhere from 3-10 photos at various exposure settings and then blends them in software. For some images, you have to choose whether you want the highlights right, or the shadows, you can’t do both. With HDR, you can get both in one image. JC does it better than many folks I’ve seen. His photos look “natural”, the way your eye might see it. A lot of folks that do HDR go nuts and it looks messed up.
I’ve been messing with long exposures to smooth out water and give it an ethereal look.
Anyways, I got over to the park right behind JC and we got set up about half an hour before sunrise. It was 20 freakin degrees outside. We geared up and went for it. My results are here. I’ll see about gettting a link to JC’s page and adding it later.
The only downside to this more or less impromptu shoot was I didn’t get back in time to make the Scholastic Art presentation today at Delaware State College. I’m kind of bummed about that.
Enough talk.
Quick, Before it’s over!
You need to get to Delaware State University’s Library for the Delaware Regional Scholastic Art Show! It ends this Saturday. There will be a reception from 11-12 and an awards ceremony from 1-3. I stopped in today and was blown away. The art I saw was from students in 7th to 12th grades. Much of it was indistinguishable from art works done by people long out of college. I was very impressed by a drawing by a student at Campus Community School in Dover, some photos done by two students at Cab Calloway and an array of sculptures done by another student at Cab Calloway.
I’ll be there!
Parking in the Visitor’s lot is free, but you need a pass or you’ll get towed!