The lesson Buddhists can learn from photographers. By Ben Chapman You’ve been there… The lights go down, and the pre-recital announcement booms on the speakers… “Filming during the show will be strictly prohibited” Yeah right. The bright light of their iPhone screen shines in the face of all the poor souls behind them, creating a …
Photography is all about light and for this project we’ll be capturing light from it’s source. The project launches January 1st and concludes January 31st. Everyone is welcome to participate. Last year we explored natural winter light. This year we are doing a 180 and exploring artificial light, human made light. It can be inside …
Backgrounds are important when photographing wildflowers (or anything for that matter). Wildflowers are typically growing in with lots of other vegetation suck a grasses, leaves, shrubs, trees and other plants. This can make getting a clean shot difficult. A simple trick I like to use is to bring piece of black foam core ora black …
The South Harrison Street Outdoor Gallery is officially registered as a place on Google Maps and you can contribute photos to the listing. It is simple, here is how. Open Google Maps on your phone or computer. Search for SOUTH HARRISON STREET OUTDOOR GALLERY and when it pops up, look for the menu item “PHOTOS” …
The Winter Light in B&W Project was excellent. Approximately 70 photographers participated, going outside to explore and capture winter light from November through January. Four hundred twenty two images were submitted and posted to our on-line gallery. A separate set of photos were submitted each month and were assessed by members of the Photographers Group …
We have a marvelous collection of winter light photos from November. They can be viewed at brokawphotography.zenfolio.com/november. Over the past week members of the Photographers Group have been reviewing them and selecting their favorites. These selections were tallied and the top photos selected for inclusion in the eBook that will be produced as part of …
I hope everyone is getting out and shooting despite cold fingers and sometimes soggy toes. We are in the second month of our Winter Light in B&W project when the sun is at its lowest in the sky. Above is a sun chart that I generated using on-line application at the University of Oregon (http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html). …
Why do we like taking pictures of our food? I guess because it looks good. What could be better than food? (yeah, I know, there are lots of pictures of that, too). Seeing then eating. How great is that? I’m not sure other people are really that interested in our food photos. They can’t smell …
If you aren’t taking bad photos you aren’t taking enough photos. Not that all of your photos need to be bad (that would be bad), but it shows you are reaching. Taking a risk. Pointing and shooting. Sometimes you miss. Maybe often. No one has to see them. If you don’t shoot you’ll never hit.
My pocket camera (Olympus Tough TG-5) will let me take pictures without a card. It has no internal memory so that means without a card my photos are not recorded. This is not good engineering for someone like me who sometimes forgets to put the card back in after transferring photos to my computer. I …