I shot only one photo yesterday. One photo. With my iPhone. Through a car window. While stopped at a traffic signal. The point being, good photos are all around us. Even when the light has changed and the person in the car behind me is staring daggers and I haven’t yet framed my photo through [...]
William Rosen is a retired disabled Navy veteran who I first knew through his car parked at the library. Its rear panel shouted at me as I walked to my car books and cds in hand. I waited for its owner to return until I couldn’t wait any longer because of a previously arranged appointment [...]
There were only three cherry tomato plants in our small garden yet they produced as if they were ten times that number. I did nothing to hasten the plants grown or speed up their ripening. There’s no regular application of fertilizer. No consistent spraying of insecticide or herbicide. The only moisture the roots receive is [...]
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 [...]
Every year, as I ponder my new year’s resolutions, I always try to find the one photo that best describes how I met last year’s promises. The process keeps me grounded in success and helps me determine realistic goals for the new year for creating better photos. This year’s best photo is of a young [...]
Being a good photographer means more than having technical skills. It means more than understanding light. It means more than understanding composition. It’s easy to learn these things. What is important is arrive early and stay late. Not matter the job, no matter the subject, no matter the need. Get there before everyone else and [...]
As a child you’re told to never stare into the sun. As a photographer you’re told shooting into the sun is a good thing, sometimes. Who’s right? The photographer, of course.
Now that you have been granted approval to break the rule about staring into the sun, how are you going to do it so it doesn’t cause damage you or the camera?
The major factors to consider when shooting into the sun are what are the foreground objects, how do they relate to the position of the sun, and how best to set the exposure?
You’ve go to love that wonderful light that thrusts itself into a dark space illuminating the perfect face.
I’d followed the subject for most of the day covering his fish hatchery small business for an editorial client. There was little need for a tight portrait to help tell the story about possible environmental impact on the business by an invasive species of mussel.
The editorial client’s demands weren’t difficult. I’d completed a lot of assignments for the client and they trusted me to find unique photos to tell the story of this man’s business.
Nothing like a sour cherry to teach you something about photography.
I once caused a young photographer to look at me as if I was some kind of crazy person as I told him that I would sometimes walk backwards down the street or across a field just to see how different it looked.
There are times when that technique seems to provide a little different view of the familiar.
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