YouTube Progress Report
I have finally got around to putting some slideshows on YouTube. So far the total number of videos that I have posted is three, the total number of views is 196, and the total subscriber number is one. Hopefully those numbers will tick up in the coming months. I am planning to post roughly one [...]
Point and Shoot Urban Macro
Mention macro to most photographers and I suspect that images of bugs, flower parts or other living nature type subject matter comes to mind. There, however, is a whole world to explore that is man made and things not regarded as beautiful can reveal hidden depths. Personally I like working close up with the stuff [...]
Removing dust from a Lumix ZS8 Sensor
“Out Damned Spot” Something bad happened a week or so ago. My brand new toy, a Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS8 point and shoot became all but unusable. A black spot had taken up residence in the inner parts of the camera and dominated every shot. Normally I am not one to worry about little imperfections [...]
Rain
Cooler and more overcast day here in NW Indiana. Current temp is around 60F as opposed to the 80F degree days of the past week. Current average high for this time of year is 47F. To really put things in perspective this region gets, on average, one 80F March day every 14 years. This year [...]
Leaf in the Sun
More playing around with tiltshift software, to be specific this browser based app - http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ No sign up, log in or pet’s maiden name required. Control of size of in focus strip, amount of blur, gradation of blur and bokeh are possible. I think that I prefer the results of this app than of Photoshop CS4′s lens [...]
Knobs Series
Bathroom cabinet, cupboard and closet type doorknobs. All of these are roughly an inch in diameter at their widest and were shot with a 50mm (75mm efl) @ f3.5. I used a 10X closeup diopter screwed onto the lens. The contrast was bumped up and color stripped (technical terms) in Lightroom.
Town Textures
My old painting teacher was texture obsessed. I would attempt to simplify my paintings and she would then berate me for producing boring work and insist that I use loads of different colors and tones to make the surface more interesting. I was 15 at the time. I know that at this point I am [...]
Manhole Cover Series
One thing that I haven’t done for a long time is to post a series of photographs. I am getting back into shooting sets of photographs of a single object or scene but with slight differences so expect a few more over the coming weeks.
Ice Sculpture meets Spring
Don’t know when his sculpture was created but I came across it when the temperature was at a balmy 48 degrees F. The setting is the stage at the downtown park in Valparaiso Indiana. The reflections of the three openings in the brickwork that makes up the back wall of the stage helps to add [...]
Go With the Flow
Limitations can be a good thing. In this case the conditions were extremely challenging, i.e. outdoors at night, a very brightly lit stage after sunset. The kids in front of the stage were having a great time and I wanted to capture that energy but only had a point and shoot with me. The trick [...]
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