Photographer Connor Williams (trulyperceptive.com) provided insight into his Lightroom processing workflow at our January meeting and gave us all deep insight and appreciation of the power of digging deeply and finely crafting our images. Lightroom is fairly simple program to use. It has about 10,000 or so sliders that will tweak our photos while we …
In the preface to his 1974 book, “Commonplace,” David Plowden writes about the character of America as expressed through it’s buildings, streets and daily scenes. These aren’t the specially restored historic landmarks or postcard/calendar vistas but instead the real places we visit and inhabit everyday. America is characterized by it’s practically, strive for efficiency and …
David Plowden, (1932- ), is an American Photographer known for his images of America, as she is. His many works are of the regular, ordinary American scenes we encounter every day. The commonplace. He practiced seeing, noticing and depicting, not just the pretty and scenic but the day to day storefronts, street, buildings and culture …
How often do you set out with a camera only to find nothing to shoot? Is it really that there is nothing worth capturing or is it us?
We always start with a blank slate. There is nothing on our memory cards or any photos on the wall before we put them there. This is the blank wall at DIY Community Art Space in Flemington, NJ where we will be having our first show as The Photographers Group. We started with a totally …
It’s fun to watch YouTube videos showing street photographers out getting shots. When you see them looking off intently, you can sense the wheels turning inside. We all know that great feeling of sniffing out a shot. It’s a mixture of thinking and not thinking. It’s “instincting” (to verbalize a noun). Brain scientists debate whether …
People often wonder about the best camera to buy. While it is an important decision, that glass attached to it may be more important. A top quality camera with a mediocre lens becomes a mediocre camera. Lenses that typically come with a camera, called kit lenses, (because the camera and lens come as a “kit”) …
Nothing is instantaneous, but the less the lag time the better for many things, especially cameras. We have our own built in lag time timing our shots. It’s that time from seeing the shot, to thinking it’s worth shooting to telling your digits to get busy to actually taking the shot. There’s a lot of …
The easiest resolution to make is to do “something” everyday. And of course, it is also the hardest resolution to keep. But like many hard things, it has value. Maybe the key is to keep it small. Simple. Easy. Being consistent with one or two small things is better than not being consistent with big …
Is anything original or is everything original? Our ancestors created us, so we as critters aren’t physically original. We’re replicas. We didn’t make up our language or symbols. We just learned ’em. So the stuff we create, like photos, isn’t original either. It came before us. We just gathered the existing pieces together. On the …