“Your pizza will be ready in 25 minutes.” Just enough time to find a feature. My daily hunt for another photo to add to the My Final Photo collection is the most challenging aspect of my daily life.
HDR on a budget
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
After several days of near shirt sleeve weather temperatures fell back to below freezing late yesterday as a cold front settled across the state. As usual, I went out into it, this time taking along a tripod and wide angle lens. The dam at Hoover Reservoir frequently shows up in my photos or is the [...]
Layers in the Fog
December 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Creating the illusion of depth in a two dimensional object, such as a print or a computer screen, is a good test of the photographer’s ability to discern what about a possible subject is visually interesting and can be used for a specific purpose to help tell the story.
A technique often used is called layering. Layering has come to mean many different styles of photographic communication. The introduction of Photoshop brought out the placing of one photo atop another in a layer pattern with blending and masking to reveal or modify a layer’s effect.
Horizontally Challenged
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the earliest rules photographers are forced to learn is don’t put the horizon in the middle of a frame. This is a great rule to break if you understand the rules about breaking rules.
Breaking rules must be purposeful. Breaking rules just because they are rules is anarchy. Although there is a place for anarchy in photography (see Robert Maplethorpe) breaking the rules has dangers and benefits.
