Team Warren Christmas Card

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Team Warren Christmas Card

Image by Brian Warren
A bit late getting our Christmas Card photo taken, but we're all for Christmas being 12 days long, so we feel we have plenty of time to get it sent off!

Gift card to shopping nirvana

Image by chemisti
Just a few snapshots of our little family enjoying the season. While they are not spectacular, they are greatly improved over the blue tinged, harshly shadowed, redeyed, nasty flash I used to use.

Technique: Similar to this Strobist blog post.

More images in this series.

Strobist info:
1 - SB-600 into 43" convertible umbrella (used conventionally) on 10' Amvona light stand
1 - SB-600, wide diffuser fired at the ceiling
1 - SB-800 with diffuser cap, used as master and for fill.
All triggered via CLS.
All gelled with 1/2 CTO to get close to the ambient.

Variety of settings used, but generally:
D300 - manual mode
F2.8 - F5.6
1/160 - 1/250
ISO 400 - 800
(Hey, a little experimentation going on here!)

Finally figured out that it is better to shoot with camera on manual mode even though CLS does the exposure work!

Ruelle de Noël - Montréal, Québec, Canada

Image by Marie Berne

Heroes learning from heroes: Local fire departments develop military search-and-rescue team [Image 1 of 5]

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Heroes learning from heroes: Local fire departments develop military search-and-rescue team [Image 1 of 5]

Image by DVIDSHUB
Soldiers from the 887th Engineer Battalion, out of Augusta, Ga., gather wood to practice working with handheld power tools on a 10,000 square-foot rubble pile training site, Aug. 31, in Raleigh, N.C. The soldiers are part of a search and rescue unit and were working side by side with civilian firefighters from Raleigh, Fayetteville and Cary, N.C., as a part of a Vigilant Guard training exercise. The National Guard and civilian first responders worked together to help each other, learning from the others' techniques. The site the soldiers worked on allowed them to work on most aspects of search and rescue.
382nd Public Affairs Detachment
Photo by Sgt. Kelsey Blankenship
Date Taken:08.31.2012
Location:NC, US
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