Merry Christmas from Mosaic Photo

This is one of my favorite photos that I’ve taken. This was a fixed display at an annual light display at Botanica: The Wichita Gardens. It was a too dark to balance the lights with the sky, but that gave me a little bit more flexibility in my shooting. I had brought along my tripod with a cool ball head. I played with a few different techniques, zooming the lens during the exposure, changing the focus depth, and camera movement.

Quickly, I saw that I could mimic the movement of snow swooping down. This shot was a thirty second exposure, with the camera stationary for the first half of the exposure. Then, I moved the camera with my tripod head’s natural arc for the rest of the exposure. This movement gave a nice motion trail.

Little was done in post processing. A custom white balance let the blacks go to a deep blue and also shift the whites to magenta. This image was used for a Christmas card at Lawrence Photo to send out to its friends and clients.

From your friends at Mosaic Photo, Merry Christmas.

This past week, Canon announced a new full-framed camera. 21 megapixels of beautiful goodness. It’ll be great in low light, and will be sure to give us rich details for our wedding, portrait, or commercial endeavors. Sure, we’ll be able to make a life-sized print of you off of these files. But big files mean great detail and gives us a lot to work with in our post-production. This is one of the most exciting cameras to come out in my time as a photographer.

I’m so getting one.

Photo by Canon