Ok, shoot me.
I have been taking pictures since I was twelve years old. My first camera was a 35mm Kodak 3c. We go way back together. It had a flip out lens with bellows. Depth of field was easy to adjust with this camera while maintaining good exposures – something today’s digital point and shot cameras overlook. If your camera has a manual setting you can blur the background while keeping the foreground in focus, just keep the lens wide open and adjust shutter speed to the correct exposure.
The three preceding pictures are what I call strong images, because they may evoke strong emotions. This is the type of shot I look for. This is my eye’s personality. Usually such shots are deceptive. The drink in hand at thirty thousand feet is a coke, the bowl sitting on top of a wooden table is almost every kind of texture one can a capture in a single shot, otherwise it has no particular purpose, and the angel is really a manikin’s reflection in a storefront window.
They all tell a story, are not the consequence of luck and experience helps. First time shooters may not want to try this at home. When you start viewing the world through your camera’s capabilities these pictures, and much better will start appearing in you camera’s memory. The image is really never in front of you. It’s inside you. The camera captures what the mind’s eye sees. And if you use available light for exposure, it’s not what you shoot that’s so important, it’s when you shoot that makes the strong impression on all those mega pixels most of us never use.
My current camera is a Nikon Cool Pix 990 with a wide converter WC-E63 screwed on board and 3.34 mega pixels usually set for normal. See Digital Photography Review and check out the glossary if you’re new to cameras without film.
As of June 2012 the current camera is an Olympus SP-600UZ HD - 12 mega pixels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKf-gLH-EjY. A worthy companion on any trip and well worth the price of admission. This model has been updated and is better yet. The price is the same.
Breaking my film advance lever at a shoot and working as an industrial/mechanical photographer does not make me or anyone else a pro. It’s enjoying what you shoot and the willingness to share your good fortune, often for free, that makes the art worthy.
The three preceding pictures are what I call strong images, because they may evoke strong emotions. This is the type of shot I look for. This is my eye’s personality. Usually such shots are deceptive. The drink in hand at thirty thousand feet is a coke, the bowl sitting on top of a wooden table is almost every kind of texture one can a capture in a single shot, otherwise it has no particular purpose, and the angel is really a manikin’s reflection in a storefront window.
They all tell a story, are not the consequence of luck and experience helps. First time shooters may not want to try this at home. When you start viewing the world through your camera’s capabilities these pictures, and much better will start appearing in you camera’s memory. The image is really never in front of you. It’s inside you. The camera captures what the mind’s eye sees. And if you use available light for exposure, it’s not what you shoot that’s so important, it’s when you shoot that makes the strong impression on all those mega pixels most of us never use.
My current camera is a Nikon Cool Pix 990 with a wide converter WC-E63 screwed on board and 3.34 mega pixels usually set for normal. See Digital Photography Review and check out the glossary if you’re new to cameras without film.
As of June 2012 the current camera is an Olympus SP-600UZ HD - 12 mega pixels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKf-gLH-EjY. A worthy companion on any trip and well worth the price of admission. This model has been updated and is better yet. The price is the same.
Breaking my film advance lever at a shoot and working as an industrial/mechanical photographer does not make me or anyone else a pro. It’s enjoying what you shoot and the willingness to share your good fortune, often for free, that makes the art worthy.
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