The subject of today's image was at the same Renaissance Faire as the person in my last post. If you check them both out there's something you may notice that makes them similar. There's not a whole lot to look at other than the subject. That's today's key to getting better "starting points" to having a successful image. There's a fairly prolific photographer/writer out in the wild by the name of Rick Sammon. I've seen him speak a couple times and have come to the conclusion that Rick's biggest fan is --- Rick. There is, however, one phrase he uses that goes along with the way I've shot most of my career. His saying is "the name of the game is fill the frame". He's not the first guy (or the last) to espouse that philosophy. There's a guy out on YouTube who goes by the handle Fro Knows Foto. According to him, he doesn't crop. Says he shoots the frame he wants in the camera. Cropping is apparently against some bizarre cult rule he's set up for himself. My guess would be that he must not frame and hang a whole lot of prints. It almost impossible to find frames that fit the standard format of a camera's sensor. Today's image is 100% of what the camera saw when I clicked the shutter. To find out way that's both a good thing and a bad thing, hit the "Read More".
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
An Easy Way To Get Better Images.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Mixing Media In Photoshop
In the art world "mixed media" typically means two or more different (usually wildly different) sorts of "stuff" is used. An example might be oil paint and yarn (I've actually seen that one.) I was playing around yesterday and sort of came up with an Adobe Photoshop (PS) version of what mixed media might look like. Today's image is what resulted. I was just messing with the image, not intending to do anything with it or probably not even saving the final result. Once I was done playing I kind of liked what I saw and committed it to memory (the hard disk sort of memory). Somewhere in the middle of playing I decided I didn't like what the sky started looking like, so I switched it out. I tend to do that type of thing on more occasions than you might think. There's just something about an unnatural sky that bugs me. So, if I'm experimenting with HDR or a plugin like in today's image I'll drop out the sky and replace it with some version of the original. To get to today's image was about twenty minutes. If I were to redo it (for a video post) I could probably cut that down to about five minutes. (I know, basically, what I did and can probably replicate it fairly easily.) It'll undoubtedly take me longer to write about it than to do it. If you'd like to find out what I did, hit the "Read More".
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Monday, June 1, 2015
Don't Be Afraid Of The Blinkies
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