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Little League Baseball Video Season Highlights

8/1/2016

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Little League Baseball Season Highlights from BrettHiggins on Vimeo.

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Retouching Images for Bad Exposure

7/8/2016

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Saving a memory captured with a bad exposure: When you're a parent with kids in sports, capturing those moments can be difficult. Most games are played in the middle of the day, and of course, that is the worst time of day to snap photos. There just isn't much you can do but capture the moment. A bad photo is still better than no photo. So what can you do? If you don't want to do it yourself you can contact me or you can try an online editor like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB553S2OZnQ

For an easy DIY online photo editor click here http://shrsl.com/?~d5mh

Photo Examples Below:
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Original
Above is the original photo. The camera clearly exposed for the bright background, while it looks like there is some sun flare hitting the front of the lens creating a ghost affect. It's difficult to create light where there is none. Below, I edited with Photoshop giving it a bronze warming look to help with the gray skin tones.
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Enhanced
Edited photo using Photoshop to enhance the photo and create a more pleasant memory to look at.
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Creating a Collage from Multiple ImagesĀ 

5/27/2016

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Masking out action shots in Photoshop, adding a little design elements in the background and dropping in some logos creates a nice collage keepsake for all of the team members.
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Nikon Pocket Wizards for Sony a6000 Settings

4/22/2016

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It's been a while since I did this, hopefully I'm not leaving anything out.

The flashes only work manually, which sucks, but it's still better than buying all new flash equipment.

Step One:
I connected each FlexTT5 pocket wizard to the software. I made sure each one was set to the same channel. Then make sure each Plus III or Mini pocket wizard is set to that channel. (also make sure all the firmware is up to date)
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Step Two:
Click on Misc Tab, check "Basic Trigger" this turns them into manual triggers.
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Step Three:
Then just set your Nikon Flashes to Manual. Adjust your power manually and you should have reliable flash system.

These work better this way on my sony a6000 than it did on my Nikon D700 with TTL or Manual. I get very few if any false triggers. Very happy that I don't have to buy new equipment.
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Shouldn't Everyday Be Earth Day!

4/22/2016

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Nikon F100 / Nikkor 28mm / Fuji Velvia 50
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Dripping

2/17/2016

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Banyan trees are so cool to look at. The main trunks have roots growing down to form new trees and looks like wax dripping down. I wanted to get a nice wide shot to showcase the length of the trees and also the roots that grow off of them.
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Trees within Trees

2/1/2016

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I've never quite seen anything like the Banyan tree. I really wanted to showcase how this tree grows, with multiple trunks, and like a centipede with legs. It's a monster of a tree that goes on forever.
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Sony a6000 with Nikon Flash and Pocket Wizards for Nikon

1/12/2016

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Another studio session with the Sony a6000, Nikon Pocket Wizards (Plus III, MiniTT1, FlexTT5) and Nikon SB-900 & SB-800 Flashes. It's a little more work to use your flashes set to manual, but once set, they have been very reliable. The Pocket Wizards have really been working well with the Sony a6000 setup. I'm definitely enjoying flash photography again and not stressing out about misfires.
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Sony a6000 - Sigma 60mm Lens + Nikon Pocket Wizards + Nikon Flash
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Sony a6000 Auto Focus Tracking

1/6/2016

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I've never owned a camera that could track subjects properly. In the photo sequence below, the Sony a6000 tracks Santa coming towards the camera and as I pan to the right the a6000 keeps focus until I'm done shooting. As the camera can shoot 11fps, it's pretty amazing that all my shots in the sequence stay sharp. I used the Sony a6000 with Sigma 19mm @ f4.5
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T-Minus: SpaceX Launch & Land with Sonic Boom!

12/23/2015

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It never gets old, watching Kennedy Space Center launches. SpaceX made history by launching goods to orbit and landing it's thrusters back to earth successfully. For me, it's not just the sight of the rocket but the sound. I recorded sound on my external recorder to capture the rumbles these rockets make. So cool!
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Reflections

12/1/2015

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I saw this bird standing in the water with nice light casting down on it. Even though the water background is a little busy and there are a lot of distractions, there is something I really like about this shot. I think it's just the colors: greens, dark blues and greys melding together. I could have shot this with a 200mm at 2.8 to help blur the background but I wanted to see the reflections of the palm trees.
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60mm @ f5 / 1/500 sec / ISO 500 / WB Sunny
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Engagement Videos

11/17/2015

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The venturous duo Callie & Crissy have been around the world together. Congrats to your ultimate adventure together!

With a little direction, Callie & Crissy filmed themselves with their GoPro and sent me the footage along with their personal photos of their adventures together. I then created this engagement video for them. I was really trying to showcase their chemistry and the fun times they both have had, and will have, going forward.
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Make Like a Tree and Leave

11/6/2015

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The weather up in the Great Smoky Mountains didn't quite cooperate for grande landscapes so I decided to just "focus" on leaves and the colors they produce. My goal was to get some nice depth of field with color contrast. This photo is one of my favorites. The red pops out with greens and yellows behind them. It's almost like a painting. For this shot I really wanted shallow depth of field to produce nice bokeh in front and behind with just a little bit of the leaves in focus. To achieve this, I got as close as I could with my 60mm lens as wide open as possible f2.8.
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60mm @ f2.8 / 1/100sec / ISO 100 / WB Cloudy
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Nikon vs Sony

11/2/2015

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This really isn't a "high noon" Nikon vs Sony shootout. I just happened to shoot with both cameras and the results, to me, are very interesting.These two cameras are very capable. I guess what strikes me is the Sony a6000 APC sensor looks just as good as my Nikon with nice bokeh, rich color, and sharp. To me the Sony is a lot sharper than my Nikon. I'm still blown away with the results this little a6000 produces. Both were shot in RAW. Both at f2.8.

So my question to you is: If I told you what camera I took these in, would it matter?
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$2500 Nikon D700 with $1500 Nikon 70-200mm Lens @ f2.8
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$500 Sony a6000 with $200 Sigma 60mm lens @ f2.8
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Fall in Love

10/29/2015

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The fall colors in the Smoky Mountains are just so dang colorful. I grew up on the west coast so I've never really seen or experienced the east coast fall. I saw these colorful leaves on the ground laying on green moss. The bigger red leaf seems to be embracing the smaller yellow leaf.
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Sony a6000 / Sigma 19mm Lens @ f2.8 / 1/160 / WB Cloudy
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