Photographing is an internal activity. It is all inside your head. You are the only one seeing what you are seeing and how you are seeing it. It’s internal until it gets recorded and processed. Now it’s outside in another place other than your brain. How far does it go? It depends on how far …
“The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so …
Parades, festivals, concerts, fairs, any public gathering, even if it’s just rush hour, is an opportunity to photograph humans. (We are such interesting creatures with our habits, customs and rituals.) When we are in big groups bustling around, we are less likely to be bothered by a camera. Everyone has a cell phone and is …
Below is a collection of freshly picked chanterelle mushrooms from a birch hardwood forest in Nockamixon Township, northern Bucks County PA These mushrooms were photographed on a black cloth, next to a window using a simple point and shoot camera, an Olympus Tough TG-5 and then processed in Lightroom. Here is the setup. It’s pretty …
Sometimes we take too many pictures. Sometimes, but that’s not a problem. Extraneous shots can always be deleted but you can’t add photos of something you photographed in the past. (At least most of us can’t.) Photography is all about timing and framing, getting that perfectly composed shot at just the right moment. And how …
Wikipedia describes a swipe file as a collection of tested and proven advertising and sales letters. The idea is you can replicated these for future success. My wise friend and life time photographer, the late Walter Chandoah, used the term to describe a collection of clippings of published that have made the cut and been …
All the photos have been submitted for the Hunterdon Retail Photo Project and they truly express the character of the locally owned retail culture in Hunterdon County. We’ve documented our culture as it is, here, now in the early part of the 21st century. If nothing else we know it will change. Fifty photographers produced …
Sometimes it can be fun to play with a scammer (You can almost here the Russian accent. ) How many red flags can you find? It’s like a red flag parade. “PORTRAITS PHOTOGRAPHY”(Actual transcript. You can’t make this stuff up.) It started with an email from Gonzalez papi… Gonzalez papi Thanks,kindly get back to me …
I shoot a lot with a point and shoot camera I keep in my pocket. It allows me to grab shots quickly an on the spur of the moments. The ol’ “point” and “shoot!” I always have an intention but sometimes things just line up unexpectedly even with random, chaotic photos. Maybe my brain sees …
