Month: January 2019

WHAT’s THE LIGHT DOING?

Light behaves like … well, like light. It can’t penetrate walls but it sure bounces around. Light has personality that depends on the source and what it bounces off of. Glowing metals and glowing gases in light bulbs have different colors as do fires, nuclear reactions and electronic gizmos. It also reflects off all kinds …

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TONE

“Watch your tone, young man!” (“…. dadburned whippersnapper!”) This is usually offered generously as a scolding but is not bad photography advise. The tone of our photos will impact the feelings the viewer has when looking at them. Tone has multiple meanings from the emotional content to the color or general contrast of the image. …

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APPRECIATING CURVES

Both Lightroom and Photoshop provide a tone curve function (along with a million sliders) allowing us to fine tune our digital files graphically. What is the tone curve? Here is a Wikipedia definition: “In image editing, a curve is a remapping of image tonality, specified as a function from input level to output level, used as a …

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FEATURES

Cameras have gotten more complex. Software features have proliferated and many of those features don’t necessarily contribute to better photos. (And many of us never even try and use them.) What matter most are exposure, focus and the overall clearness and sharpness of the image. So what features contribute to these? These are the features …

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A SHOW SHOW

A video show of a show. We did a lot to create a the Flemington Streetview Photo Project show from getting the shots to mounting and publicizing it. It adds a little extra to commemorate the event with a short video. Our opening lasted about four hours on Saturday, January 12th, during which time a …

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FEELING

How are you feeling? How does your photo feel? How do you feel about your photo? How did you feel when you shot it? Good? That is what matters. We start with good. That is what prompts us to push the shutter in the first place. You click when it feels right (and then click …

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STEPS

There can be a lot of steps to getting a photo and sometimes just a few. We know the barebones basics, turn on the camera, point, compose, shoot and check the shot. Repeat. It’s obvious and we do it all the time. It’s called a workflow. Taking it to the next level requires a more …

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CONSISTENT ACTION

Heroic actions create the biggest push and get the most attention, but who can be heroic everyday? A few small, helpful daily habits can add up. What can we do everyday to improve our photography, something that won’t fade away?

AT SHOWS

Having shows, being in shows, going to shows are all great and can be very satisfying. And along with the satisfaction of appreciating the things on display is the satisfaction of all of us interacting. We may find ourselves spending as much of our time talking with and enjoying the company of others as as …

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BEING JUDGED

It is tempting to say that no one likes to be judged, but it’s not very accurate. Many of us set ourselves up for judging all the time, on purpose. We put ourselves out there and ask for feedback (hoping it comes back positively). Members of the Photographers Group put themselves out there for the …

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