I’m always looking for easy ways to effectively demonstrate immutable photo techniques. While on a walk earlier this week I decided to use the spray from an inadvertently activated water spigot to demonstrate shutter speed techniques for blurring and stopping action. The first photo, shot at 1/500th of a second, has nearly stopped the droplets [...]
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 [...]
When budgets would get tight, as they always did at the end of the year, the AP’s main office in New York would modify every film supply order changing requests for 36 exposure rolls into orders for 24 exposure rolls. The intended purpose was economy during shooting. Logic was supposed to show that a photographer, [...]
I don’t always travel with a full complement of photo gear. Sometimes I carry just my Canon G9, which you read about yesterday. On this day, as we walked out of the house, I grabbed a Nikon D300 with the 14-24mm f2.8 lens.I love the wide-angle perspective both for its ability to emphasize foreground objects [...]
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 [...]
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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