I received a call from an e-friend, Jane Lyons, about her basketball pictures taken in a gym.
She’s using:
Nikon 40DX
A kit lens of some sort I’m guessing that 18 mm to 55 mm f3.5 – f5.6. Continue reading Blurry basketball pictures in gym
Tag Archives: Photography
Environmental Portraiture
These are usually shot with a slight wide angle lens.
If you’re using a digital SLR which doesn’t have a full frame sensor, then any lens shorter than 30 mm is considered a wide angle.
Again, since I don’t believe in rules for photography. Environmental portraits can even be shot with a 50 mm lens. Continue reading Environmental Portraiture
Photowalk downtown Riverside
On Veterans Day, my class went downtown Riverside. It was deserted because of the holiday, but that suited our purposes.
For one thing, parking was easy to find and we didn’t have to pay the $1 an hour.
See the larger version of the pictures from our photowalk.
Silhouettes 2 –more tips
Before my class was cut lose to for their photowalk to see what they could find downtown Riverside, I helped them with their silhouette assignment.
We had already gone over the details but I felt they needed a little more guidance.
What is needed?
- A bright background preferably relatively uncluttered.
- A subject which is not well lit relative to the background. By relative, I mean something or someone in the shadows.