Rick Allen Photography Blog

I found this cool new site which allows you to create videos from your images.  Here’s one I did.
The Boys at Play

It’s almost time for the New Year’s celebration.  I’ve wanted to shoot a fracturing light bulb for some time.  The time finally came, so I went to Lowe’s to purchase 6 clear oblong and round light bulbs.  I set the camera at 1/1000 s, f/5.6, ISO800.  I set up 2 SB800’s on either side (one [...]

We got our white christmas snow a few days early.  I shot this with my iPhone, so it isn’t the highest quality image.  This was early in the day before the final count of about 4”.  A break for 1 or 2 days, and then some more snow on Tuesday.

“In the same way that an editor pares away excessive wording or extraneous thought in order to focus the literary message; or a classical pianist contours a melodic phrase by indicating through touch and volume and rhythm, the musical stream; so a retoucher simplifies a photographic statement by diminishing or paring away nonessential visual elements, [...]

Very quick entry here to thank each of you over to the new blog.    This site is sponsored by WordPress.org, and will eventually provide additional features which are all easier to use for both you and me.  I will be very busy over the next couple of weeks getting my web site AND the blogs [...]

Aidan is way ahead of me. We were each supposed to post two images of something in our backyard. Aidan posted 4 pictures, as I am only now posting my 2nd. That just goes to show you how much better photographer he is than I.
We’ve had a bit of severe weather in the last week. [...]