Anthony Chuang Photography

01/09/2018

Golden Sunrise

After some very last minute planning on a Saturday evening, we got up at 5am for a sunrise shot from below the Golden Gate Bridge. I caught this photo just as the sun peeked over the skyline of San Francisco! What a calm and beautiful morning 🙂



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01/08/2018

Finally getting to editing my San Fran trip photos from November now that the holidays are done. Did a bit of hiking to get up to Twin Peaks in San Francisco for this classic shot during blue hour!

Blue hour overlooking San Francisco from Twin Peaks! Classic shot of San Francisco 🙂

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10/24/2017

Fall Flames

Fall is finally upon us! Did a spontaneous trip yesterday to the famed Rockwood Farm for some epic display of colors. Their driveway was surreal and so well maintained.
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10/24/2017

Week 3 - Red

I haven't been posting anything for my 52 week photography challenge for a LONG time now, but I'll try and pick it up again. Here's challenge #3, hope you enjoy!

Title: Fall Flames

Fall is finally upon us! Did a spontaneous trip yesterday to the famed Rockwood Farm for some epic display of colors. Their driveway was surreal and so well maintained.
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10/09/2017

Long overdue for a post. I now have a 500px page! Please help me get started by following (links at bottom). Thanks!!

Got up at 2:30am, drove 3 hours, almost hit a deer, stopped at 3 different spots, before we ended up here. The lake is aptly named "Reflection Lake" :)

The water was so still that morning, forming a breathtaking mirror, as the sunrise grazed the top of Mt Rainier!



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06/12/2016

This is another photo from the same night. One of my friends was waving his flashlight/phone around, and I asked him to help me out with taking the photo of our other friends (the couple here!). It was a one second flashlight exposure on the 30 second photo exposure.

I was going for a cute photo of the two of them watching the stars, but caught a shooting star right in front of them too (we saw a lot of them that night)! I guess this goes to show that sometimes the best photos can't be planned :)

06/12/2016

As an extra "bonus" photo from my last star trail photo, this was a test shot I took right before I started the 35 minute long exposure shot, so the perspective is the same.

Without editing for star trails, you can really appreciate the amount of stars in night sky! We made a 70 mile trip in the middle of the night to where there is virtually no light pollution, and it was dark enough to see the milky way with the naked eyes. We went to see the northern lights (aurora), which the camera did capture as purple lights along the bottom right edge, but we unfortunately couldn't see it with our eyes :(.. It was still really pretty though!

Technical details:
Nikon D600, 12mm fisheye, F2.8, 30s, ISO6400

06/08/2016

Week 2: Traditional Landscape

Title: Glow

Slowly catching up because I started late on the photo assignments, so here's week 2! Also realized I should give my images titles.

It's been a while since I did astro photography (the last time was summer 2013!), but it's still one of my favorite forms of landscape photography. The night sky is full of stars and so captivating to look at. If you go somewhere dark enough on a moonless night, you can actually see the milky way!

Over the weekend, there was supposed to be visible aurora (aka. northern lights) in Seattle, and so a bunch of friends and myself went for a 70 mile excursion to see them. Unfortunately we didn't see anything visible to the eyes, but the camera did capture some of it in the right edge of this photo (in purple). We did get to see the milky way though, and you can still kind of see it along the right edge of the tree line even in the light trails here. We also saw a lot of shooting stars and made some wishes.

Technical:

I shot this with my 12mm fisheye lens, which is really awesome for night sky photos. This photo was stacked from 70 shots over 35 minutes (30s, ISO 6400, F2.8). With some editing in StarStaX and a bit of adjusting in Photoshop to give the softened effect on the stars, it turned out really well. I actually had to reduce contrast and clarity before stacking, otherwise my photos had way too many stars.

06/07/2016

Week 1 - Self Portrait

One area of work I really need with regards to portrait photography is posing. For now, I look for poses and photos I like online, and try to replicate them. This one started from a concept photo in my Pinterest list of "professional photos". I bought a bowtie for an event that I didn't end up attending, which came in quite handy for this occasion. Even though I've done a similar self-portrait before, it's still not easy being the photographer and model at the same time :P

This was done with a simple 2 light setup in my apartment, but getting the lighting to hit my face and my face to receive it at the right angle, AND manning the camera in between shots, was HARD. Thankfully nobody else was home :)

03/21/2016

I haven't gone out and shot for a long time now :( but I'm slowly getting back into it. Here's some photos I took when we went to see cherry blossoms at UW!

03/18/2015

http://collective.shutterdebug.com/assignment-4-food-photography/

I've finally finished with my photography assignment for our blog haha. As promised before, food photography!!

Including 2 Japanese restaurants, food p**n, and tips on taking better food photos :)

With all the amazing photos everyone has been posting, it feels a bit hard to follow up. Luckily, I drew something I'm somewhat familiar with - Food

03/11/2015

Thank you Charis for letting me shoot your professional portraits! :D Best of luck on the job hunting!