Shadowplay Photography

Well last weekend was the annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. It rained, but not the whole time. It’s always a lot of fun shooting this event. All the colorful locals get dressed up (or down depending) and have a grand old time marching down Surf Avenue. This year was rainy as I mentioned, but it cleared up after the first half hour or so. I didn’t get any running make-up shots like I expected, but it turned out to be a productive shoot anyway. See my Flickr page here for the gallery.

On a technical note: shooting with the 5DM2 in the light rain caused no problems, even though people have complained online about poor weather sealing. Of course I was nervous about the whole time. All the shots were taken at ISO 400 with the excellent Canon 70-200 f2.8 L IS. Noise levels at ISO 400 were almost nonexistent which helped as the light was generally low. Also, almost everything was shot at f2.8, not because of low light, but I wanted paper thin depth of field to separate the participants from the crowd in the background.

Our Alma Mater the Florida Gators won their second National Title in three years last night defeating the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14.

I realize this has nothing to do with photography, but I just wanted to say well done boys. Of course, now I’ve got to go another eight months with no college football. Guess I should use the time to work on my portfolio.

Well, after 5 years of no updates I’ve finally decided to scrap the old website and venture into the world of blogging. Woho

I’ve also started hosting my photo galleries with zenfolio at: rohandp.zenfolio.com. From there you will be able to view, comment and order prints of all of our photography. Take a look and let us know what you think.

We’re going to be adding links to some of our favorite sites, location reviews, how to articles, and much more going forward check back… As for now as they say on TWIP “it’s time to take the lens cap off” and go shoot.