They are under the bushes in our front garden beside the driveway!!! I totally missed them until my husband pointed out to me. I was really thrilled. I had been dreaming about taking photos of this type of mushrooms for a long time – Finally, finally the opportunity came… I snapped many pictures and this is one of them:
This is not a fitting picture for today’s theme but i post it anyway.
What I’ve long taught at workshops is this: the wider the lens you use, the closer you probably should be to the nearest thing in your scene. And there should be a nearest thing in your scene!
–Thom Hogan, Lens Week
I’m still working on my “back to basics” and thinking about the art of photography. The above quote has been sticking in my head lately, along with some other points in the article – namely that “zooming” closer to an image flattens your feeling of depth, whereas zooming out then walking into the image enhances it. If you want depth in an image, go wide angle and get close.
The above image is my first real attempt at doing this – rather than shooting at 70 mm from a comfortable distance like I normally would have, I put the lens at 18mm, then moved into my minimum focus distance. The result really is interesting – rather than a flower in front of a pylon, I ended up with a field of flowers leading to a pylon.
I think I’m going to have to experiment with this more – rather than thinking of wide angle / telephoto as magnification, think of it as flattening or deepening an image.
P.S. I’m still using manual focus for everything, and I swear my images are sharper because of it.
I’m pretty good at typing. Ahhh, who cares about the modesty. I’m awesome at typing. I guess it just comes to me when I do it and suddenly I can type without looking and can do it fast. But it’s just something that I’ve been doing ever since I can remember.
I guess you can say it started when I was in my old school, U-Hill. Our computer teacher was pretty strict, and we had to do the same lessons all the time. We did the “all the right type” lessons. And it really helped when also my mom pushed me to work on my mini novel at home.
The first time my talent was realized was quite a number of years ago…
So one day we were allowed to play on the computers. And there was this game where you have to type words so you wouldn’t get eaten by sharks. The girls were having problems as they sucked at it. So I looked over and realized how they were doing. I then asked if I could try, and they laughed at I took the keyboard.
I beat the game.
They just stared at me. And they told the teacher to look at how fast I was, I was just zooming by those words. Watching as the sharks ate them…
And that’s about all I could remember…
Ling recently posted her discoveries about colour profiles, which is funny because I have been reading about the exact same thing the last two days. Is an interesting topic — if you looked at Ling’s recent study of colour and shapes in Windows, you would see much duller colours than she did when she posted it. However, if you look at my picture above on Windows you will see nearly the same thing I do (the difference here is so subtle you would have to put it side by side). On a Mac you can see the differences by putting a Safari and a Firefox window side by side. Try it with Ling’s picture, you’ll be amazed at the difference.
The question really is not what is colour, but how do you describe colour…
I can’t believe this. All this time I have been doing wrong things without knowing it. The colors of my photo always look dull and could not figure out why. I blamed my old Minolta and got frustrated with my new Nikon D40. I study color theory and work hard to understand why colors of my photo are always off?
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This is my first published Aperture photo — for the last week I’ve been using Aperture (Apple’s “Digital Workflow” tool) to catalogue and edit my photos, and I’m now ready to discuss my first impressions. I haven’t bought the software yet, I’m still on the 30 day trial while I decide if I like it.
