Matt's Photography

One of the photos my friend and I submitted for the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust Photo Contest.

See a gallery of all of our submissions HERE

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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I’m trying out something a little new.

I have scheduled one picture a day to be published at 3pm, for a total of 30 days. All these pictures will be of a recent trip the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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Just some bubbles and a foggy lens.

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My new short film! Subscribe to my short films channel and Like our Facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loaded-Lens-Films/197241237013409

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More fire spinning, just because it’s so damn fun.

More fire spinning, just because it’s so damn fun.

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First trip this season to Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

First trip this season to Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

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More to come soon.

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An illustration of what Adobe Lightroom can do for a picture.

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My Gizmodo Shooting Challenge Entry. The topic was lasers. The winners are announced on Tuesday.

I was featured in one of their past shooting challenges. Click here to see that one. My picture is the one titled “Fluffs”

Canon T2i 18-55mm lens @ 55mm. ISO 100, f/9, 15 second exposure.

The goal for this picture was to make it look like the laser was lighting the match. I put the match in a clamp, and taped a laser pointer to a stand, aiming it directly at the match head. I set the a 10 second timer, and in that time, lit a separate match, and put my hand in front of the lens. Once the exposure started, I kept my hand in front of the lens, and lit the match in the picture, quickly removing my hand at the moment of ignition, so I could get the unstable combustion look in the picture. If I didn’t put my hand in front of the lens in the beginning, the match I lit this match with would have gotten into the picture. After the lit match started a stable burn, I put my hand in front of the lens again, and blew out the match. Then I removed my hand in front of the lens, and my girlfriend, (blog, meerallama) dusted a healthy amount of baby powder from above to make the laser beam visible. I had to blow out the match first because corn starch baby powder is flammable when mixed with air. I’m very glad I knew that. It took us a few tries to coordinate this, but it ended up working pretty well.

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