Night time makeshift outdoor studio.
Around Twelve last night a friend of mine stopped by. I have had a lot of halloweeny ideas floating around my head. I just needed a model and a good amount of extension cords. A pitchfork acted as my light stand, an old drop light as my lighting, and the faded side of an old gas can was my diffuser.
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Macro is the Bee's Knees.
So, I had always sort of scoffed at the typical flower or bug photo and thought they were simply cliche and boring, but I have a new perspective on this practice and area of photography now. After several days of walking around my yard with an old manual macro lens I have learned how enjoyable it can be and have decided that it’s the Bee’s Knees!
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Brisk Baby
Was shouted several times after fluid was ejected into the air and splashed around and onto my lens covering the front element. Firing off a few more shots, the words not registering until I smelled my arm where it had also gotten splashed onto. Brisk…..iced….TEA?!
I turned to the lead singer of the band and with no doubt a look of annoyance inquired, “seriously?” He looked back a bit co…
Chromatic Aberration. What? Why? ...Who?
Chromatic aberration, or color fringing is something you see mentioned a lot whenever you look into buying a new lens. To explain this simply, when light hits glass it is refracted to an extent and the colors tend to separate. Light passes through several differently shaped elements in a lens and in doing so is effected in different ways. The lower the quality of the glass in the lens the more …
The atmosphere of a show.
I want to start off by saying that I am not a fan of flash. I avoid using flash like the plague because I feel it ruins the atmosphere. Ambient lighting is much more attractive than images captured with flash, especially the usual pop up flash of most D-SLR cameras. Shooting bands in basements and garages has forced me to find ways of retaining some atmosphere, while still being able to get the…
Experimentation challenge #1
So, I challenged you all to try new things last week. A few of you ansered the call and I saw some really great work come out of it. This made me decide I would propose a weekly challenge to those listening.
I will of course also be doing the challenge I am putting fourth. This week’s challenge I have already done a bit with.
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A challange to all artists.
So, I got out last…well it was this morning really, at 4AM and I stepped outside of my comfort zone photographically. I do not shoot colorful landscapes of nature, nor do I really like photos of said subject, but I decided I needed to try something I was unfamiliar with. My next exploration will be into portraiture. I decided I did not want to focus on just one thing, but to bring my style an…
A more positive focus.
I have been noticing more and more the things that needlessly separate us all. We dislike someone because they do something we do not approve up. We despise of someone because they advocate something we hate. We patronize and ignore those we don’t see as intellectual equals. WE focus far too much on what SEPARATES us.
These things are apparent in all faucets of life. I think we are all guilt…
Any further equipment purchases.
I have decided that I will not spend another dollar on photography equipment unless it is money I made through photography. I will put my passion to the test I guess and see if it can sustain itself. So any new photography related things will have to be purchased with money made from photography. I think it’s the only way i will be able to justify spending a few hundred dollars on a good tripod…
My first loss of a location.
The fog was as thick as I had ever seen. visibility was down to only a few yards. I approached the area that the amazing old structure had stood waiting, anticipating, wanting it to emerge from the fog so badly. Only when I stood where the brick arches had previously captivated me did I realize that it h…