Month: March 2019

CITIZEN PHOTOJOUNALIST

We are all photojournalists sometimes. We are out there taking pictures to remember or record something. Events, vacations, travel, outings , all those times we take along a camera with us on a venture we look for cools stuff to take pictures of. Sometimes we go for the light or the colors, shapes or patterns. …

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RULES

If the first rule is that there are no rules can that be the a rule? Arnold Newman, the master portrait photographer tells us there are no rules for composition. “There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and …

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YOUR WORLD

We see out a portal. We are inside looking out and sometimes we put a camera in front of our portal. (I guess that makes it a portal portal.) The world is out there and we look at it. When we photograph we’re recording what we see out there. Sometimes recording intently and other times …

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Histogram display on 5D Mark III

WATCHING THE HISTOGRAM

Camera exposure meters can be tricky sometimes (especially mine). They aren’t always entirely accurate, telling us the exposure is good but then under- or over- exposing depending on the scene. (They lie.) A quick glance at the LCD may clue you in that the exposure ain’t right, but sometimes the LCD conspires with the exposure …

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FILE NAMING

Eight-dot-three. The origin of endless cryptic file names that we thought we would remember the meaning of but totally forget. Now we can name our files in full words or even complete sentences and know exactly what they are. All fine and good except when those lovely, long descriptive file names get truncated with only …

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HARDWARE

What’s life like without hardware? All those tools and components that allow us to do the things we want to do? Without hardware we wouldn’t get much done. For photographers hardware is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because we love taking and working on photos and obviously we can’t without equipment. …

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NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT

It is not uncommon to encounter the unexpected. Who really knows what the next moment will bring? This can actually be rather satisfying when going after a shot. Frequently, we zero in on a subject and work on crafting an image. We do what we can to manipulate the variables, playing with angles and timing …

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WEB CONTENT

So much of our photography is used on the internet, on a website site, somewhere. This enables the world to see our photos and of course and us see theirs. Our photos are the some of the building blocks of websites. They’re the eye candy to go along with the text. It doesn’t matter where …

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ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS

There are loads of programmers out there programming loads of software programs. TNTC (too many to count). And in each realm there are the major players. The ones who seem to be the end all software, the “if-you got-it-that’s-all-you-need” software. Photography software is no exception. We know who the big one is, but there are …

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CONTESTS-SEE AND BE SEEN

Whenever we enter a contest there is always the hope of winning, getting a prize, but of course, not all of us do. There is more to contests than the prizes. Contest offer an opportunity photographers’ work to be seen by people who care. It’s a sharing activity. The photographers share their images with us …

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