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two more from team scs

Chelsea T. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:13:46 +0000

Two more models from Team SCS.

team scs

Chelsea T. — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:59:21 +0000

My buddy, Ferdie Ang, needed some photos shot for his new web site, www.team-scs.com. So he called me up and I shot some ladies in his team shirts. Here is a teaser. I should have a few more up this week.

my new sti!

Chelsea T. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:09:11 +0000

I drove around town trying to find interesting backgrounds. There just aren’t any here in the suburbs. I need to find an area more industrial or rundown.

the last photo

Chelsea T. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:22:30 +0000

Here’s the last photo I took of my Limited before I traded it in.

san onofre beach

Chelsea T. — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:22:17 +0000

My friend Jeff and I drove down to San Onofre beach yesterday to scout out some locations for a photo shoot he has coming up. I brought along my camera and snapped a few shots.

survivor dan

Chelsea T. — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:50:52 +0000

My really good friend Dan was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago. After his operation and chemotherapy, he began his road to recovery. It’s only been 5 months but he has come so far. So we wanted to document how far he has progressed.

beach shoot with liz

Chelsea T. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:18:36 +0000

Haven’t had time to shoot anything other than cars lately. Here’s one from the beach shoot I had with Liz last night.

princess milo

Chelsea T. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:07:50 +0000

Glorious Milo!

spot metering & birds

Chelsea T. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:32:00 +0000

I saw these birds in my backyard tree a couple days ago. So I grabbed my camera and my 70-200 f/2.8 lens so I could go shoot them. I took a few pics from behind them and next to them but I still didn’t have a shot I liked. I moved in front of them and when I raised my camera, they flew away! They saw that I was pointing something at them and got scared!

I thought I had missed my shot but a couple hours later, I looked out the window and saw that they had come back. I went out there again and without rasing my camera, I raised my arms to show them I wasn’t going to hurt them. They seemed fine so I raised my camera and took a few photos. Looking at my display, I saw that the camera wasn’t metering the birds correctly because the sun was behind them. (I wanted to keep the sun behind them because it outlined them nicely from the background.) The camera was metering for the whole picture, so when it saw bright light, it darkened the exposure. I switched the camera to spot metering where it only meters what you have in the exact center of the photo, recomposed and took the picture. Voila! It came out perfectly exposed.

Here is the photo with lots of adjustment layers in Photoshop like levels and curves.

new lens on my wish list

Chelsea T. — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:18:42 +0000

Someday, when I am making more money, I want to buy this lens:

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

While shooting cars, I need that extra stop to f/2.8. My f/4 isn’t cutting it inside the car where I can’t use flash!