GAVIN PHOTOGRAPHY

Hey everyone! I’m going to start posting a picture for every week. This could be just any picture, but it’s really to show off a single image that I think is special in some way. It’s also so I can get my lazy butt posting more articles. I’ll also explain how I got the image, photographically.

This last Sunday I shot with Judy for her very first wedding. We were up in Pasadena and the Station fire was in full swing at the time (I think less than 10% contained at the time). Before we left that night I promised myself I would get an image with the fire in the background, and here it is:

Yeah, this one was a bit difficult to nail. For the photogs out there, I was at:

Canon 5D mk2 w/ 85mm f1.2
iso5000, f1.4, 1/20s handheld

This was all done with natural light.  I choose the high iso because of the lack of tripod of course, but I had little leeway otherwise. I wanted to stop down the aperture, but 1.4 was the furthest I could go before losing the image.

I hope this inspires other people out there to:

1. take advantage of the environment
2. push your equipment outside of your comfort zone

BTW, the noise looks worse than it is.  At 21MP, the noise is smoother as a print.  The interpolation used for resizing added more texture to the sky than you’d normally see.  Happy shooting!