by edin chavez | Feb 11, 2017 | Florida, Miami, Miami Beach
I woke up bright and early to shoot the blanket of fog covering the Miami Skyline. It was so thick you could not see anything. Once the sun came up a bit it light up Monument Island perfectly. That’s what you see here. The white monument is in a man made island called Monument Island. What you see in the back are the buildings of Downtown Miami starting to show as the fog cleared up. I shot some earlier where you can not see anything at all. I will post soon.
Settings: 1/125 F16 ISO 100 shot at 200mm
by edin chavez | Feb 10, 2017 | Cuba, Street, Street photography
I shot this in Cuba at Plaza de la Revolución. I was hanging out when out of the corner of my eye this beautiful girl appeared. I quickly ran over there and took a couple shots, she had no idea I was there but to me the moment was perfect.
I learned a long time ago that when you see a photo, take it. If you do not, it will hunt you for the rest of time, believe me…
by edin chavez | Feb 9, 2017 | Florida, Miami, Miami Beach
I woke up this weekend to shoot the sunrise, unfortunately it was not very picturesque. I felt great to be out there, but the sky was flat, there were no colors and it was just boring for a photos.
This is where my creativity kicked in. I brought some tortillas from home (I know I’m super Mexican) in case this happened. I’m always super prepared, and I’m glad. I started throung tiny pieces to the air for the birds to come and I could get some sort of shot acoomplished, not oly that but it was fun messing around with my friends on the beach at 6:30am
The first pic is me, I put the cam on a tripod on a timer and let it fire while I was running around like a maniac. The second shot was more of what I was aiming for.
Settings: 1/125 F10 ISO 100
This is where you can find me in the mornings shooting the sunrise. If you are ever around come say hi.
by edin chavez | Feb 8, 2017 | Landscapes, educational, Everglades National Park, Informational
This is a question I get often. Edin how do you make the sun look so massive in your photos?” I teach this at my photography workshops and often people are shocked at the results.
To achieve this is actually quite easy, all you need is a massive zoom. Most of us do not have a massive zoom, I totally understand that but even if you have a 200mm zoom lens it will do the job.
Once you are out on the field photographing the sun, make sure you zoom in directly at the sun, while doing this make sure you have some sort of foreground, in this case I used the trees at the Everglades National Park.
In the photos below you can see the difference between a photo shot at 70mm and the same shot at 600mm
In the professional lingo this is called compression. Compressing the sun. Now go out there and experiment, you will be surprised at the results.
Camera settings: 1/125 F18 ISO100 Zoomed in at 70mm
Camera settings: 1/200 F18 ISO100 Zoomed in at 600mm
