Shot a night launch, and also a How-To video

This is how I shot the Atlas 5- Intelsat 14 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:55am 23 Nov. 2009. This was the second launch attempt for this rocket and the fifth time I have tried to get this shot composition at this location (all the other launches got scrubbed, and one I had camera issues. You can see the final image from my how to video on my flickr page here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emanonphotography/4129282718/

Yes, I still call him my little brother even though he is taller then Me.

I did a photoshoot last week for my little brother and his girlfriend and her son.  It was a family portrait session with posed shots but I also followed them to the playground and got some great candid shots.  Here are 6 of my favorite shots.  I was also playing around with some effects in OnOne's PhotoTools 2.0.   It was a good photoshoot, and my brother seems to like the photos.

No Launch

No Launch
Originally uploaded by Emanon Photography

For anyone who read my blog post and went out to see the launch tonight, I hope you figured out it was scrubbed. Don't feel so bad, I went out and was all set up too, but I still got a cool shot. Did you think about shooting even without a launch? Maybe you will next time.

From Flickr: So, if you have looked at my photostream, you might have figured out I like to take photos of night time launches of Rockets and Space shuttles from the Kennedy Space Center, and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Tonight an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Intelsat 14 communications satellite was supposed to launch, I was all set up, ready to go, and there was a technical problem with the rocket, the launch was scrubbed, but I still made the best of it and got this cool photo of me.
Camera was my Canon Rebel XT(350D), tripod mounted, and triggered remotely with my RC-1 IR Trigger. Exposure details are in the exif data.

3 Brothers before and After

3 Brothers before and After
Originally uploaded by Emanon Photography

So I had a family portrait shoot Wednesday actually had 2 family shoots, which is great, except that one was my family and I had to be in the photos (Ok, the other one was also my family, well, my little brother and his girlfriend and her son). Out comes the Canon RC-1 remote and my RebelXT. You can see the remote in my hand if you look real close. I ran into a couple problems though. The main problem was that I couldn't see the lens flare which the sensor did see. I played around in photoshop for a while to clean up the image, which is a nice image, and one of the few pics out there of me and both my brothers together. I still have a little bit of cleanup work before the final image is ready. I was wondering if anyone had any tricks out there to clean up lens flare? (other then to watch where you aim the camera in the first place). I'll post a couple pics from the other shoot later this week once I think of something to write about them and once I have them edited.