Sunday, October 16, 2011

Trip to New Orleans!

Here are a couple of images from my recent trip to New Orleans, LA.   More on my website www.lynnwiezyckiphotography.com..

 Great city for photography!


That's all for now.  


Lynn W. 

Sunday, September 4, 2011

My Review of Nikon D300S 12.3 Megapixels SLR Digital Camera Body with 3" LCD, CF and SD/SDHC Card Slot

Originally submitted at Adorama

Nikon D300S DX Digital D-SLR Camera, 12.3 Megapixel, Interchangeable Lens, Nikon U.S.A. Limited Warranty


Great Camera Body!

By LW from Tampa, FL on 9/4/2011

 

5out of 5

Which of the following features do you use on your digital camera?: Interchangeable lenses, Low-light shooting, Waterproof, Fast Auto focus, Manual focus, Continuous shooting

What do you do with your digital images?: Use in personal blogs, web sites, and social media sites, Upload to online photo sharing sites, Save to disk

Picture Quality (e.g. clarity, sharpness, color): 9

Ease of Operation: 8

Shutter Speed/Lag Time: 10

Variety of features (e.g. zoom, image stabilization, low light): 9

Durability/reliability (e.g. damage resistance, battery life and sturdiness): 9

Overall Experience: 9

How likely are you to recommend your digital camera to your friends, family, co-workers, etc.: Definitely will

Pros: High ISO Performance, Easy To Use, Fast / Accurate Auto-Focus, Large Clear LCD, Quiet, Good Image Quality

Best Uses: Sports/Action, Landscape/Scenery, Indoors/Low Light, Weddings/Events, Travel, Wildlife photos

Describe Yourself: Photo Enthusiast

Was this a gift?: No

Great Camera body. I bought this to replace a D200. The low light capabilities are awesome.

(legalese)

My Review of Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide Angle-Telephoto Zoom Nikkor Lens with 5 Year U.S.A. Warranty

Originally submitted at Adorama

Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide Angle-Telephoto Zoom Nikkor Lens with 5 Year U.S.A. Warranty


Great Lens

By LW from Tampa, FL on 9/4/2011

 

5out of 5

Pros: Fast / accurate auto-focus, Consistent Output, Durable, Rugged, Nice Bokeh

Best Uses: Indoors/Low Light, Night Photography, Landscape/Scenery

Describe Yourself: Photo Enthusiast

Was this a gift?: No

I use this lens for model shoots and landscapes! It works great for both!

(legalese)

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Model Shootout in Downtown Tampa!

Our Meetup group got together on a hot Sunday.  We were split into teams of 3-4 photographers with 1-2 models per group.  We had to fan out in downtown Tampa and work together to each end up with one image to enter in the competition.  When we finished shooting we headed to Dave Cross's new Studio 3 in Oldsmar where we all went through our images, did some quick post processing and chose our best image to submit to Dave Cross, RC Concepcion & Brad Moore to critique.  The cool part of this was we had all the models there looking over our shoulders and commenting while we worked on their images.  They also were there for the critiques.  Several of them said afterwards, it was the best shoot they had done as they learned so much.   The best 3 images were picked and all the members of that photographer's team got some cool prizes from Kelby Training and Menual Art.   It was a hot & educational shoot.  Here are 2 of my images from the shoot.  There are more on my website. Enjoy!

That's all for now.
Lynn

Saturday, July 16, 2011

New Mexico Adventure

Ok!  Its been awhile but I have been busy!   Latest adventure was to New Mexico.  Spent 9 days with 5 photographers & all we did was shoot!   Got very little sleep but it was worth it.  We rented a very nice house in Placitas (great hosts) and forayed out from there all days but one when we camped overnight in Chaco Canyon.   Jim Sykes, our friend & guide (he's been going to NM for 20 years) took us to so many places that it is hard to remember them all EXCEPT we took loads of images!    We had mountain day, church day, shopping day and a desert day among others!  We ate some awesome fiery food!  We saw hummingbirds, orioles & deer in the backyard.  We put over 1000 miles on that darn (killed my back) mini-van we rented.  It had so much dirt & dust on it that it was another color when we returned it.  The only problem we had was the wildfires that were flaring up all over AZ & NM.  We were unable to go to 2-3 places Jim wanted to go because of them.  There were also a lot of restrictions -- had to use a camp stove in Chaco Canyon as there could be no fires.  All in all we all had a very good time and got some great images.  Here are a few.  Check out my website to see even more.  Enjoy!









That's all for now.

LW

Sunday, May 8, 2011

More Portrait Work



I have been getting more opportunities to shoot portraits and the requisite post processing with all the shoots setup by the Tampa Bay Strobist and Photoshop Collective. Thanks to Kathy Porupski and many other photographers I have learned a lot in a short time. The models we get to work with are awesome.

Check out the People Gallery on my website to see many more.
 

Brad Slaughter and Aylen Suarez are the most recent models.  Here are a few images.