I sorta ran myself out of time, what with a mid-week grocery run, fetching diesel for Hank the Golf, paying off bills, and other Wednesday inanity, so I went back to macro… But I wanted to switch it up this time, so I pulled out the magnifying glass (from day 26), the 36-72 E Series, …
Category Archives: Photography
The 5 Elements of Photography – tl;dr version
Ok. Let’s make this quick. There are 5 things that go into any and every photograph. In order of importance, these 5 Elements of Photography are: The Light The Photographer The Subject The Lens The Camera All of these terms are broader than you probably think: ‘Light,’ here, includes the entire spectrum of light, from …
Continue reading “The 5 Elements of Photography – tl;dr version”
365.41 Maneki Neko
I started out today’s 365 time with plans on doing some more multiple exposure experiments, intending to try to make this little Maneki Neko figure look as if it was lit by multiple strobes, even though I have only the one SB-700. I took about 20 multiple exposures (60 shots) holding the SB-700 with a …
365.40 Multeh Bokeh
On with my experiments in multiple exposure. This time: testing what happens when multiple exposures meet shallow depth of field. I started out with a still life of sorts, but quickly noticed that these beads made some great bokeh, so I got rid of everything else and focused on the beads. Or, rather, focused on …
Obey Dallas
DJ Shepard Fairey (!) performed at the Dallas Contemporary last night (despite my interest in graffiti and street art, I didn’t attend…), and his crew (or perhaps Shep himself) did a bit of wheatpasting during the week last week. I tracked these few down today, and may go hunting for some more during the week on …
Downtown McKinney Photo Walk
When I uploaded and started looking at the photos from today’s photowalk in McKinney, TX with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp group, I realized two things: 1) I’m getting a bit better, but not much, and 2) my photos from photowalks all pretty much look the same. So I need to do something to shake …
365.38 Abstraktes Bild
ISO400, 1/8000th, f/2. This shot was taken as part of the Downtown McKinney Photowalk with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group.
