How do you measure the quality of your work? Do you sit quietly in a corner hunched over a laptop analyzing your Photoshop skills? Do you make display prints and share them with friends, family and other photographers? Is there a Web gallery with your photos for everyone to see? Are these your best...
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I am sure there are moments when bystanders much wonder what is going through my mind. Sometimes my wife wonders the same thing. Of course, she has good reason. Many years ago my wife thought it would be exciting to accompany me on a news assignment I had to shoot a street fair. It...
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Betty sat quietly in her living room on a chair pulled close to the door where I’d positioned her in the light. An artist, Betty understood my requirements of her for a good portrait. She slowly moved through varied arrangements of her face and hands, turning slightly into and out of the light listening...
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"If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times not to exaggerate!"
That phrase has circulated through my family for at least four generations. Maybe more if I'd had contact with relatives gone before my time. Perhaps on my next trip to Florida I'll stop in Cassadaga and make contact with one who...
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Lens choice modifies the mood and impact of your photos. My first thought shooting this group of almost Spring fitness seekers was with a telephoto view to compress their figures against the chaotic water falling over Hoover Reservoir as the background. I chose a point on the entrance road leading to the parking lot...
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I’m usually an advocate of a clean, crisp arrangement of objects in photos. This wasn’t one of those times. The rolling ridges of this farm field, a lowered roadway where I stood and an overcast afternoon sky all contributed to a difficult setting for good photos. I’ve used the house in the background in...
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The temperature has been below freezing most mornings with the highs for the day rarely getting much more. Hoover is mostly frozen in a thin layer of ice too thin for fishing. Below the dam the water is a little warmer after it’s trip through the pipe and begins to freeze again south of...
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Someone called me to task several days ago for using a photo of fresh cherry tomatoes for a posting in the middle of a winter snow storm. I apologize. If it makes you any happier, today’s photo is from a winter storm. I’ll even give you two to make up for the indiscretion. Not...
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Dissecting yesterday’s grocery store vegetable display photo was a fun task. It reminded me of another vegetable photo with repeating patterns, varied colors and contrasts and a pixelated design. Mary Bridgman operates an organic and traditional farm in central Ohio. Every year as the first tomatoes ripen in the spring she appears at the...
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I don’t know who at Kroger is assigned the duties of arranging the fruits and vegetables in their respective sales bins. I’m not even sure if whoever it is isn’t working from a graphic designer’s and marketing director’s floor plan or diagram to best show off the variety of produce available. I’ve pretended to...
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