Nine times out of ten, you hold up your camera, peer into your viewfinder and spin one or two of your dials.
You do what it takes to center the LED on “0”.
In automatic modes, you select the aperture or shutter speed and you trust the camera select the other freeing you to concentrate on your composition.
Intentional under exposure–I knew what was important in my viewfinder, the white doves and nothing else. I didn’t want to see any reflections in the sculpture’s marble, so I took this picture 1/8000 sec @ f2 instead of what was recommended.
The more often you use your camera, the sooner you’ll learn to recognize when not to believe that meter and when you should.
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Siblings–The image above taken in 2001 with a Nikon D1 is among my favorite of my kids. I don’t recall much about it. Just dad with kids playing out front of the house. Most of my favorite family pictures are seat-of-the-pants variety. I’m either ready or I’ll catch it another time. The trick is to always be ready with that camera. Then you can make it seem like luck.
As the day for my “show” at Back to the Grind draws closer and closer, I am feeling a little anxiety.
Those of you who live in the area, mark the day on your calendar April 1.
Riverside has its monthly Art Walk, the 1st Thursday of every month which begins at 6 pm.
If you’re around, come by and say hi. I promise this is not a gag or a practical joke.
I’m grappling with what to display.
It would be nice if all the pictures could be work I’ve done since I left the newspaper.
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First day of school–When I worked at the newspaper, every fall at the start of the new school year, I could always count on being sent to illustrate/document this. Just how big a deal is this day, I can’t say for you. I was lucky to be able to be there for my son’s 1st day in Kindergarten.
Previously I mentioned when you took on the title “family documentarian” or “family photographer, you will have to sacrifice a little for your art.
What? You think your spouse is going to let it slide when she could have bought herself an expensive pair of shoes, some shiny rocks or designer purse, instead of letting you have that digital SLR?
How about if you very cunningly introduce her to photography as well?
But that can easily backfire depending on how competitive she is and how bad a photographer you are. Read the rest of this entry »
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Goal– Not the sharpest picture I’ve taken, but given the circumstances, I am thankful I have it.I’m sure my son thinks so. If there is a downside to not working at the newspaper, it’s not having access to long lenses. Shooting soccer without at least a 400mm can be a challenge because there is so much clutter in the background and the action is usually far away. For that reason pros who shoot soccer usually use 2 camera bodies. One with the long telephoto on a monopod and a 2nd body with a 70 -200 zoom.
As the “photographer” in the family, we often have to “take one for the team.”
By that I mean, “we” often don’t get to just enjoy the moment as a spectator.
It’s worse if you’re the coach and you’re trying to photograph the game as well.
Been there and done that.
By the end of the game, my brain is totally fried from the multi-tasking.
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