One of the joys of shooting RAW is the Clarity slider in Camera Raw for Photoshop and Lightroom. The typical expectation for this slider is to increase contrast in the mid-tones adding a degree of sharpness to the center of a histogram. The edges of the photo, the shadows and highlights, are untouched except in [...]
Choosing when to use a slow shutter speed to blur an image doesn’t always have to match the subject matter. On the fourth Friday of the month during the summer streets are closed in Uptown Westerville for vendors, groups and associations, performers, and politicians to set up spaces to display their wares and attitudes. At [...]
We’ll stay with the bicycle subject matter for at least one more day. At least long enough to add a little more knowledge to shooting blurred images with wide angle lenses. Yesterday’s photo discussed subject mater moving laterally to the shutter plane. The result can be quite striking with the pincushion effect created by rotating [...]
Yesterday’s Shutter Speed #2 not only dealt with stopping action, it also concerned keeping backgrounds in focus to help explain context and location. It was important in yesterday’s photo to keep the background sharp to place the racers in a small town business district setting. Part of the charm of the photo was the building [...]
There was limited time to shoot this blurred image of a local city worker completing his afternoon task mowing the unused portion of the cemetery and city lots near my home. He appeared to be nearing the end of his shift and had the mower in overdrive quickly moving closer tome with each pass. I’d [...]
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