Not something we’d want on a road trip but maybe something we can use creatively in our photos. Blowout is when parts of our photo are totally overexposed. The pixels in the overexposed areas have given up and said, “Too much light, Dude. I’m not going there.” There is no data in blown out pixels. …
When it comes to exposing my photos, I think in “stops.” Half stops, full stops, multiple stops, traffic stops, bus stops. No wait, scratch those last two. I’m not sure where the term ‘stop’ comes from (maybe Wikipedia knows) but I think it comes from the days when we would would turn our aperture ring …
Before digital processing, filters were screwed onto to our lenses to modify the light. For black and white photography the most popular filters are red, green, blue, orange and yellow. They all affect the contrast by lightening up objects that share their color and darkening objects that don’t. Make sense? (No). It’s a matter of …
There is no end to the variability of light. Over the course of a day I popped a few shots of the TD Bank on Bridge Street in Frenchtown from the same location at different times of the day. Bridge Street runs west-east and the bank is on the north side so it receives full …
Our latest project, Winter Light in B&W, is all about seeing light and creating images that celebrate it. Winter light is wonderful. The low angle of the sun creates a rich, creamy light and long shadows. Lots of opportunities for cool photos. Most of our projects focus on the stuff in our pictures; the places …
I find when I am out getting photos for our Photography Group projects it is as much about exploring as the photos themselves. I spent part of the past weekend with a friend driving through regions of Hunterdon I don’t normally visit looking for barns, bridges and buildings and anything else that caught my eye …
I like the parallels between focusing light and focusing attention. When we look at something we focus our eyes. We flex our ciliary muscles to change the length and curvature of our lenses so what we are looking at come into sharp focus. At the same time we are focusing our attention. We are looking …
A fellow photographer recently posted this on the Photographers Group Facebook page and I thoroughy enjoyed reading it. I asked where it came from and was told from another photographer who got it as a birthday card, so I kept digging. Who said all this cool stuff? It turns out it wasn’t one person. This …
I knew 2020 would be a tumultuous year but I thought it would be about the presidential campaigns. Now they seem tame and mild compared to what we are experiencing. https://photographers.group/project-q/While there is only so much we can do to turn the tide of world and national events, we can take pictures and document what …
The Photographers Group is a project-oriented group. When we do a project, we create a collective body of work. Much of what we do is documentary in nature. We create a visual record of our culture. It is a lot like travel photography, we just don’t travel very far. There is plenty to see and …