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 [...]
Finding the spot was easy. I knew that when I laid down on the wet sidewalk I’d have a great low angle to frame a bike racer against the skyline as he made a turn into Uptown Westerville. The low view would place the rider in an exaggerated angle with the city’s small town building [...]
The toughest time of the day for me is during the school year when I’m the one taking kids to school in the morning. There’s nothing more frustrating than sitting in morning traffic as the sun creeps over the tree line to my left throwing shadows across the road in front of me. I watch, [...]
Today’s post is number 100. Hopefully they’ve been enjoyable for you. It’s been an experience for me as I return to a part of what began my career many years ago. It’s been quite some time since I wrote a weekly newspaper column about photography. One day I’ll have to go into the fading print [...]
Back in the day, almost two years ago, when newspapers and wire services assigned freelance photographers to shoot photos to accompany business stories, I often searched out photogenic subjects to best illustrate manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, and business-to-business and retail sales. The reality of most manufacturing facilities is that they don’t look anything like what the [...]
I once was chastised, and punished, for including people in some of the photos I shot during a year long project at InnisWood Metro Gardens park. The self-assigned project [ rockatinniswood.com ] was to document the activity within line-of-sight of the rock in toad pond. Toad pond is one corner of a triangle of spaces [...]
The storm door at my front door was ripped from its hinges during a recent storm leaving twisted aluminum, wood splinters and scratched paint in the empty opening. Its replacement arrived yesterday carried to my home by an installer younger than any of my children and not much older than the oldest grandchild. I gathered [...]
Is there a moment when you’re not thinking about photos? Is there a time when you don’t have a camera ready? Is there a photo you missed because you couldn’t answer “Yes” to these questions? Several times a week I pick up one or both of my granddaughters after their sports team practices at a [...]
Before I left the park Sunday I’d already uploaded to The Best Camera a photo of my grandson enjoying himself for the first time this year at Planet Westerville. In my Nikon D300 was a near duplicate image of the seven-year-old struggling to get high enough to leap into the air at his greatest apogee [...]
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