Lights of the Market
While staying in Raleigh, I was experimenting with the Sony A7r and exploring its capabilities. I went inside a lively fresh market with many bright colors and unique products and produce. It was a fairly large building that I actually went into after walking around outside where the State Farmers Market was taking place. The camera has a variety of different presets and filters that you can use in live mode with your camera. I decided to try… Read More
The Multiverse
This is a picture of a movie theater in Key West that had a really cool art deco design. My idea here was to play with light and wave my Leica X1 around in the air to get an abstract look. In Lightroom, I boosted up the contrast to the max to get a completely black background and which also gave the shapes more “layers” for a little bit of a 3D effect. I… Read More
Alley in Rome
This shot was taken with my old Nikon D40 when I was 11 years old visiting Rome, Italy. One morning as I was walking down the tiny staircase in my hotel (try not tripping on one of those old tiny european staircases), I looked out one of the windows and saw a true glimpse of what daily life was like in Rome on this Bustling Street. I believe that it was this moment when I… Read More
Beautiful Japanese Garden
While walking through an amazing Japanese Garden in Florida, these beautiful bright flowers caught my eye. When I walked up to them, this perfect scene emerged before my eyes. I saw little purple flowers a little ways behind the bright pink flowers, a beautiful lake, and the Japanese museum on an island sitting on the lake just come together. Before even raising my Leica X1 to capture the moment, I had already composed the… Read More
Carnival Squash
Late last year, I went up to a State Farmers Market. There we were so many stands and vendors that I just took my time and explored the place. Since I was still fairly new to my Sony A7r, I decided to experiment with some of the settings. There was a live pop color preset that when you look through the lens, all of the colors around you were full of life and saturation…. Read More