Go Deep...

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Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

This is my first color post with the new Nikon D200. 18-200mm VR 1/3200 sec f/5.6 @ ISO 800. This was taken as I was snapping shots of Rocco to be sent in to Regis and Kelly live to win the cutest kid award. This isn't the photo that was sent in but taken at the same time. The color rendition and saturation are rich and amazing. Hopefully he'll throw some TD's in his day. Enjoy, JP

Antique Eyes.

Antique Eyes.
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

Antique grayscale in Adobe Lightroom Beta 1 with my new Nkon D200 18-200mm VR at 1/30, ISO 1000 @ 200mm. Don't be surprised if more pictures get published using this technique. As soon as Adobe gets this thing going with layers, i'll have an antique with green eyes. Till then, Enjoy. JP

Free.

Free.
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

Grayscale completely changed this photo and gave it instant emotion. A frigget bird, all alone. Flying over darkness, and in the spotlight. This photo is enigmatic. This photo is the one you want to find when you scroll through the rolls of JPEG's. This photo is Free (not really though). JP

Light'em up.

Light'em up.
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

Cohiba lit. Can't say its my favorite cigar but better than none. One of my many weaknesses and a very symbolic picture. This could just be the break I need. If its up to me this will be in every cigar shop in Key West and from there where it goes, no one knows. I've had this picture, of my hand with a cohiba, for over a half year. I used a very fast prime lense (50mm f/1.8) to take this shot in pitch black, off a balcony, with no flash. Another favorite of mine (obviously, its on the blog). Sometimes it takes a while to figure out when you have a good shot. I know all my pictures mean something to me, thats why I take them. The hard part is figuring out when it might mean something to you. Hope you like it. And if you do, Light'em up.
I'll keep the whole dedication thing going. This one is to Landal, care of cigars on the beaches of the Bahamas. Glad you like the pics. JP

Sunset Framed.

Sunset Framed
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

I'm guilty like the rest of us. I'm a creature of habit. I just can't get away. I'm sure living and being in Key West all the time has a lot to do with it. The sunsets are trite. The palm trees are trite. But I don't care. I keep taking pictures of them. So its been done 10,000 times. Not by me. They turn out better everytime and for some reason I just want more. I'm not sure what pulls photo enthusiasts to the photo's they shoot. This is mine. Earth, Wind, and Fire.
This one is dedicated to Laura Nugent. Enjoy. JP

Smoke on the Water.

Smoke on the Water.
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

Not exactly what you think of if I told you one of my favorite pictures was taken in Miami. This was before 7 A.M. on a weirdly foggy morning. This is the lake behind my apartment. I couldn't see it but once I saw the fog I grabbed the camera and went to the lake. I was actually chasing a Crane and missed the shot. It took so long to try and shoot the bird the sun started to come up and I was down the coastline and looked back to a still lake that I couldn't even see beforehand. This is by far one of my favorite pictures to date. JP

You Can Teach a New Dog Old Tricks.

Film Camera?
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

I was just browsing through some recent photos uploaded to my G5 within the last couple weeks and saw this picture of myself. The first thing that made me take a close look at this photo is that, well, its me. When someone takes as many pictures as I do there is one thing you notice within the first couple hundred shots...you aren't in any pictures. That being said I decided to process the RAW image for quality and save it to JPEG to save some harddrive space. When I took a closer look at the photo it started to make me think. And the more I thought about the photo, where I was, and what I was doing the more I realized this is one of those photos that is worth a thousand words (no I won't write all 1,000 words in this post).
I was at the beach just messing around taking pictures wasting time and had my sister come along with me cause she likes these unplanned "do somelthing new" adventures so I told her I would teach her my digital camera a bit which also give me some company. When I was leaving the house I saw her 35mm camera just sitting there on the file cabinet and grabbed it just for comparison. We got to the beach, I showed my sister the basics of digital photography and she went off shooting with no worry of wasting anything but some time a battery power.
Then there was me. I'm new school. I read almost thirty minutes a day just on digital photography. I look at equipment, software, and am constantly preaching the benifits of taking digital pictures. But this picture of me made me think back to the day I had. I was sitting on the bench looking over this camera. I was looking for about 30 different settings that weren't there. I had taken about 10 photos that I couldn't review. I had used over a third of the roll that I couldn't erase or edit. And none the less the roll I was shooting with was Black and White.
I used the camera in Aperature Priority which is usually what I use and started thinking about my shots. About framing, not white balance. About the subject, not the image quality. The neat thing is the camera actually made me think about taking a real picture and only having one shot. Not just shooting away and reviewing/erasing seconds after.
When I went to the store to get my devoloped pictures there was a suspence that I had never had before. I didn't have a clue what the shots would look like. I didn't get the see them seconds after the shot. And the black and white was something I had never experienced. The pictures came out great.
Most of the photography uproar is about the new digital age. Changing to more advanced cameras. For me it was going back. I learned the technical before the basic. Completely opposite of the evolution taking over photography. Old dogs stubbornly learning new tricks and new dogs learning old ones.

Wilma Blows

Wilma Blows
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

This is Hurrican Wilma from the inside of my apartment. The gusts in my area were reported over 110mph which explains why the only thing in focus is the enormous tree that went down. The Cat. 3 put me out of electricity for 3 days and as a result had to wait in 3 hour lines for gas. All that being said and minor damages aside, everyone I know is safe and sound.

Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

As the sun sets the moon rises. Night and day simultaneously. Since i've started taking pictures this is one opportunity that has alluded me till now. The picture was more of a moral victory than a trophy shot. Obviously this is not what it looked like. This is NOT a representation of what I saw but just a little drop of creativity to give my prize a few ripples of interest. Enjoy. JP

Natural Mockery.

Waterpainted Sunset
Originally uploaded by tryzatt7.

Nothing special. No foreground. Not enigmatic. Yet somehow simply amazing. This photo was only adjusted for sharpness. It looked like the clouds were a mirror image of the ocean painted with watercolors. JP