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Best wishes,
Dwight
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Posted in DailyLife
Tagged Christmas, Holidays, Nut Cracker
Color or Black and White?
I’ve spent some time wondering about this. When I was in college the photography majors seemed to lean very heavily against color photos. The implication was (or so I perceived) that you couldn’t do fine art photography in color. And photos employing “artificial” light were especially eggregious. I theorized that this philosophy was born from two origins– 1) in the late 70′s the bulk of fine art photography to date had been done in B&W (and they were apparently not teaching William Eggleston at the time), and 2) it’s a lot easier to teach college sophomores how to process B&W film than color. Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Tips
What’s New?
I’m back with a long overdue update. It’s amazing how much time has expired since my last post. The good news… much behind-the-scenes activity has been occurring, including shooting, organizing, becoming more educated, and planning. Admittedly, I have used my recent change in day jobs as an excuse for the lack of communication. However, the good news is that my wife, Martina, and I have been adding to our website knowledge base and I have been updating my portfolio by adding new photos and removing some photos that perhaps don’t make the grade anymore.
What can you expect to see in the near future? Continue reading
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Power Lines
Power lines– the bane of every photographer’s existence. How many times have I seen “the perfect shot” just to be foiled by power lines in the way? Sure, there are ways around them. You could move; but that always seems to ruin the perspective you had in mind (or would require you to stand in the middle of traffic). You could just remove them in Photoshop; but I refuse to spend hours cloning out power lines (life’s too short). If the lines are significantly closer to you than the subject you are photographing you can adjust your depth of field so that the lines go far enough out of focus to disappear; but that means your subject will have a shallow depth of field, and only works if the lines are a lot closer to you than the subject. Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged Photography, Power Lines
Shop Window Cats
I have been fighting it for years, but I finally relented. Look, I know that the value of light is the vocabulary of the photographer– I embrace that. I value the importance of the direction, color, intensity, quality (hardness vs. softness), the interplay of light and shadow– the elements of light. I am a dedicated student of the parameters of the proton en masse. And I am painfully aware of the mantra of the outdoor photographer, “to capture the best light you have to be there before sunrise.” But, dammit, I used to be a musician– when I witnessed daylight it was at the end of my day. And it wasn’t always pretty. Continue reading