A skunking, and frustrated IR
Yesterday was, of course, Midsummer – otherwise known as the Summer Solstice. In celebration of the longest day of the year, I felt like I should try to make the most of all that daylight and make some images, something to mark another astronomical passing. Unfortunately, my planets weren’t aligned. I got pretty well skunked. [...]
MAAM WWII Weekend, Pt. 3
Thanks for hanging in there – this is the last of my posts on the WWII Weekend. I wanted to try and cover a lot of ground with them, since there was so much photographic skill and technique that’s useful in shooting an event like this. I’m not hardly scratching the surface of it, and [...]
MAAM WWII Weekend, Pt. 2
Alright, enough of this ground stuff. You go to airshows to see those beautiful old birds take to the sky. The trick, of course, is getting an in-flight photo that’s worth a damn. I’m not going to say it’s easy, ’cause it isn’t. In fact, after spending over an hour on the flight line, craning [...]
MAAM WWII Weekend, Pt. 1
Went from shooting song birds to shooting warbirds this weekend. I drove down to Reading on Saturday (first time on the PA Turnpike) for the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend. And wow, what an awesome afternoon! I’ve been to airshows before, from the little county airfields all the way up to the EAA Fly-in in [...]
5 Tips for Better Bokeh
Bokeh is one of those photographic qualities that everybody has a hard time agreeing on – photogs will debate it to death, but when they see a good example of it, they know it! By definition, bokeh is simply the out-of-focus portion of a photograph (usually in the background). “Good bokeh” is highly sought after, [...]
6 Common Photography Fallacies
As you progress through the world of photography, you hear a lot of things. Oftentimes conflicting things. This Internet age is a true wonder, and it has put vast amounts of information at our fingertips, indexed it, and made it easy to find. On the other hand, it has also let the misinformed, confused, and [...]
Alli in Duotone
Went back and reprocessed on of the shots of Alli from the other night. I keep reminding myself to try some new things, one of which is duotones. This shot wasn’t really working for me in color, but I didn’t want it in B&W either. So I converted it to duotone, using one of the [...]
Ambient Light
Last time I covered some Strobist-style shots, both studio & mixed-ambient based. Working with strobes is a lot of fun and the level of control that it grants is clearly higher than you get when you leave it to nature. Natural light, on the other hand is unpredictable; clouds come and go, the sun rises [...]
So you’re going to an event
You’re going to an event. One of those arena-based performances that cost too much, where they try to hawk trinkets and cotton candy at you during intermission. Where you have to pass through a ridiculous bag check at the door, where they tell you that “professional” photo gear isn’t allowed. Which to the people running [...]
Panorama
Each time I return to Gettysburg, I seem to find myself at Little Round Top, shooting from the top of the castle-like monument there. It offers a good view of Devil’s Den and the fields beyond, all the way to the PA Memorial and Pickett’s Charge to the north. So I know that I already [...]
