Finally, summer is here! [click to continue…]
When it starts to rain, do you head inside with your camera and wait for the sun to come out? If so, you’re missing out on many opportunities to capture some spectacular images. [click to continue…]
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Two years ago I decided to learn how to take my DSLR off of the AUTO mode and learn the camera controls. I took a class, and we had assignments that required us to really learn things like how to slow the shutter speed down, and how to get the largest depth of field possible. We worked with different focal lengths, different lighting conditions and learned when and how to let more light in to the camera when there wasn’t a lot. The only way to do this was with the help of a tripod. [click to continue…]
I like to spend a few minutes each week cruising around Flickr. I always find something that intrigues, inspires, amuses or just adds a spark to my own creativity.
Here are five shots I saw this morning that spoke to me.
Shot by Brad Kolodzaike, this photo has emotion. Pure and simple, raw, unadulterated and unclean emotion and a timelessness that comes from clicking the shutter at just the right time.
Is it the perfectly composed image? Probably not, I would have liked to see the subject moved a little to the left in the frame, but who cares about that. The moment is what counts and Brad nailed it. [click to continue…]
Fall on the tundra, Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Seeing all the great fall images around the web lately, I’m reaffirmed at how much we photographers love fall.
The color of the world changes so dramatically over the course of a few beautiful weeks when leaves slowly turn from summer green to their bright hues of yellow, red and orange. This wonderful change has us scrambling for our tripods and extra memory cards as we head out the door in droves with our cameras to make autumn landscape and nature images.
Leaves aren’t the only thing to change color. Grass also takes on it’s golden hue which leaves us with entire fields of yellow and bronze. Berries take on their full saturated brilliance as their sugar content rises to maximum levels, which has the birds and bears scrambling to gobble up as many as they can before that first big frost withers them. [click to continue…]
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Think back to that time when you picked up your first camera and started down this road of photography. For some of you, maybe that was only last year. For others, it that might have been ten or twenty years ago, if not more. [click to continue…]
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