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Monthly Archives: May 2010
View 127: My Memorial Day Weekend
We are enjoying a three day holiday weekend in the United States to celebrate Memorial Day. I have taken the opportunity to get out and do some photography. For various reasons, I have not been able to get out the … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, People, Travel, Weekly View
Tagged 18-200mm vr, baldwinsville, beaver lake nature center, boy, flags, harbor, lake, Lake Ontario, landscape, lighthouse, memorial day, new york, nikon D70, oswego, parade, Photography, sunset, water
17 Comments
Sidelighting a Ladybug
Sidelighting – light coming from the left or right of a subject. Because the light is scraping across from side to side, it catches every surface blip and imperfection, leaving a trail of large and small shadows and exaggerating surface … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged 18-200mm, baldwinsville, beaver lake nature center, bokeh, direction, green, insect, ladybug, leaf, new york, nikon D70, red, sidelighting, veins, vr
18 Comments
Track Exposure
If you have followed my blog at all, you know I like to show motion whenever I feel it adds to the story of what I am photographing. At the ESTA Safety Park Dragstrip speed is the name of the … Continue reading
Posted in Assignments, Sports
Tagged 70-200mm, cicero, creative, dragstrip, esta safety park, exposure, junior dragster, new york, nikon D70, panning, Photography, racing, starburst, vr
30 Comments
View 126: Blue Eyes
This little boy was at a family picnic I attended last week. When photographing children, putting them on a chair can help to keep them in one place for a few minutes. Long enough to get a portrait…sometimes.
Posted in People, Weekly View
Tagged 18-200mm, blue, blue eyed, boy, child, children, eyes, new york, nikon D70, Photography, portrait, vr
7 Comments
10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens
Guest Blog article by Justin Miller. Ultra-wide angle lenses, referred to as UWA, can offer a unique, sometimes challenging, often rewarding view of the world for photographers. Many of us have faced that limitation where we can’t quite fit a … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 10, florida, guest blog, justin miller, orlando, rectilinear, tips, tokina, ultra wide angle, uwa, walt disney world
24 Comments
