Artie doing it on the Hooptie Deux

[James Shadle]

Well in the water next to the Hooptie Deux.

Nikon D700 with 16mm lens.
1/320 SS @ F11
Flash at 0 with Ray Flash attached.

It was 11am and we were wrapping it up for the day. The light was very contrasty and strong side lighting cause some lens flare.

But still a fun OOTB technique for portraits.

James

[Julie Kenward]

Neat image, James! I love what the lens did to the trees in the BG.

Artie, I'm guessing that's your 800mm on the tripod but what are you hand holding? Is that a 600mm? It looks huge!

[arash_hazeghi]

I think he is holding a 400DO pretty compact and light lens, looks bigger in fish eye :D

[Harshad Barve]

Nice image James and thats lot of equips
TFS

[denise ippolito]

Really cool looking image James. Nice smile:)

[Alfred Forns]

Sweet image James Love the perspective !!!!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

real nice perspective. thx. for sharing.

[Myer Bornstein]

Great picture with a large grin a happy fellow :D

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Wow I love it James. Great eye !!! Looking good Artie.

[Philip Pietri]

Awesome pic, James. Lookin good, Artie. One day soon Blake and I will escape diapers and take over the Hooptie Duex. Yep. Look out.

[Arthur Morris]

What's with the do-rag??? :)

[James Shadle]

What's with the do-rag??? :)

You can take the boy out of Afghanistan, but you can't take the Afghan out of the boy.

[Arthur Morris]

Good point Froggie, but it might actually be "You can take the boy out of Bushwick, but you can't take the Bushwick out of the boy.

Bushwick is the dead-crack ghetto on the Brooklyn/Queens border where I taught for 23 years.

[Bill Jobes]

If any image ever defined "Do What You Love; Love What You Do" -- it's this one ! :)

[Arthur Morris]

If any image ever defined "Do What You Love; Love What You Do" -- it's this one ! :)

Thanks Bill for your kind words. You know exactly how I feel about bird photography :)