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High Speed Sports Photography

Denis Baldwin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:53:42 +0000

Shooting high speed action requires a fast lens and a fast eye. This is especially true of dusty environments (like autocross) and ball-based games like jai alai. In water sport events, such as Dragonboat Races, reflects from the water and splashing high speed movements are a challenge that pays off when I’m able to capture that perfect shot. Here’s some photos from sports events I’ve photographed.

Photography: Pride Fest Wedding Photos

Denis Baldwin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:19:55 +0000

Who needs a legal binding union to have an excuse for beautiful wedding photos? I recently was asked to photograph same-sex (and a few traditional) couples for the July Creative Loafing Gay Wedding issue. I shot over 70 portraits (along with over 600 shots of the event). I used a Gary Fong dome with my light levels adjusted to give that warm halo glow that all wedding parties want. No stark flash and everyone looked so beautiful.

Photography: Low light fire photography at L’Olivier

Denis Baldwin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:13:32 +0000

Recently, I was asked by L’Olivier Cabaret to come and shoot a night photoset of their fire dancing performance. This presents a special challenge to a photographer being that I was shooting in a low light environment with rapidly moving light sources (the fire) with a very fast action sequence. Using a 50mm 1.8/f prime Canon lens, flash off and set to action mode, I was able to capture the intensity of the fire and the dancers in motion. Slight blur effects happen naturally with these subjects. No editing was made to these photos.

Photography: Insect Closeups

Denis Baldwin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:01:32 +0000

Nature has always fascinated me. My right arm is covered in a tattoo of ants marching from M. C. Escher’s Mobius Strip. I often try to get close up photos of different creatures and the smallest of them are the most interesting to capture.

These photos were mostly taken with a 70-300mm canon F/4.