Edwin Villanueva

After a week long rain-fest, we finally saw the sun today. I wasn’t about to miss out on this opportunity to soak up some sun, so I grabbed my camera and hung out at the beach. The one thing I love about heavy rain fall is that typically the day after, the light is amazing. Today was no different as the sun was golden during the late afternoon and early evening.

(iso200, 85mm, f/5.6, 1/400sec)

I went to the golf range today for the first time in about nine months. As expected, my golf swing sucks. Pounding 180+ golf balls didn’t really help either. In fact, hitting that many balls may have tweaked my back. It’s a little sore at the moment along with my left hand.

In between pounding golf balls, I took a few snapshots. I waited until the sun was setting so I could attempt to capture some flare. This is my favorite pic of the bunch. What do you guys think?

Okay. I know that was a stupid corny (stupid + corny) title. I couldn’t come up with anything better. Anyways, my buddy, Ray is probably going to hate me for posting this but, I really like how this turned out. I was experimenting with trying to get fill flash using the built in flash so the subject and sunset would be properly exposed. This was probably the lone picture that came out half way decent.

The original picture was a little washed out because of the harsh lighting from the built in flash but with a littl post processing in Lightroom, I think I was able to salvage it. What do you guys think? Anything I could’ve done differently?

(iso200, 17mm, f/11, 1/250)