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, [...]
Although it isn’t my favorite camera, my Canon G9 is my preferred carry camera. It’s almost always at my side, even when I’m lugging two D300s and a full complement of lenses and strobes with a tripod strapped over my right shoulder. The compact camera has high resolution, relatively low noise at lower ISO settings, [...]
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 [...]
I broke my Good Friday fast with dinner at my daughter’s house with her husband and four kids. I know that’s not really important for you to know but it does point out a small dilemma in the afternoon. I carried very little camera gear. My iPhone and a Canon G9. After all, it was [...]
It was Grandparent’s Day at school and I was under instructions to shoot my 12-year-old granddaughter with some of her friends. There were really only two choices. The third, a near-full studio setup wasn’t going to happen. At best I would have just a couple of minutes to gather the kids after lunch and between [...]
Bugs on flowers is a common subject for many photographers, especially ones with point-and-shoot cameras. I’ve often told people how much I like by Canon G9 for its portability, resolution and capability to adjust exposure. It’s also nice to have a camera that, with the push of a button, becomes a closeup lens camera. That [...]
Shooting indoor hockey is, at best, very difficult. It’s almost impossible with a point and shoot camera although there are a few tips that can help make it easier for you to get good photos.
A psychologist one told me that I needed to quit anticipating. She wanted me to pro-active but not always be looking ahead, to concentrate on the moment and find ways to work through its content.
I appreciated what she was telling me but I told her that would be exceptionally difficult in my line of work. Anticipation is a core technique element for all photographers.
I’d traveled to North Carolina for the wedding of my niece, the only child of my sister. Despite a committment to advance my photo technique by shooting photos every day, I told myself to be nothing more than an eager family member with a camera while at the wedding and reception. I was going to be a guy with a camera.
I also didn’t want to interfere with the workings of the wedding photographer hired to do the job.
Making a living as a wedding photographer is bad enough. Try shooting with guys with cameras hovering over your shoulder shooting everything you do including the required, posed, grinning family shots.
There are moments when I really love my Canon G9 such as this rainy day at the local Farmers Market.
There are advantages to using a point and shoot camera. Sometimes they are of greater value than a more expensive and sophisticated DSLR with interchangeable lenses and high frame rates.
The very same reasons that can make them impossible to use for many photos just might be the only reason to use them for others. The tomatoes are a perfect subject.
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