Last time I went to take photos to practice for the track day that Dean will do – see post Cars in Movement – there were a few things that did not please me. The first was the high ISO. It created a lot of noise in the image. At the size shown, you really […]
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So I took the second photo of the chickens this weekend. I managed to get both chickens together in a single shot. From now on, I will post the photos only on Sundays (or Mondays), but the two photos at the same time.
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In various degrees, I will take photos of the chickens every weekend. This is part of me creating a body of work that can help me improve my photographic talents. The “In various degrees” aspect of the statement above is that I may not be home every weekend to take photos of them. For example, […]
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Dean is planning to do track day, where he will get on his bike and ride around a race track. This helps him understand better how his bike works and behaves. It is also a less dangerous approach to riding at higher speeds than in the middle of traffic. That’s the excuse we used to […]
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So I started looking at doing a bit more progress with the What the Eyes Can’t See. With a new IR filter that arrived, I decided to give them a try. Not particularly happy with the results. I struggled with the IR photos as I needed a slow shutter speed for me to be able […]
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Dean has a new bike. Well, he’s had it for just over a month now. And we really hadn’t done much in the sense of photographing it. With this whole talk of the portraits I’ve been wanting to do, and getting a model to help me out, one of his friends, who is a model, […]
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Dean and I decided to watch a movie and then take photos in the city on the weekend. I wasn’t very inspired on the day, I probably took only 170 photos. Dean, on the other hand, using my D3300, took approximately 350 photos. Twice (!!!) as much as I did. He is still learning how […]
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That is the name of an exercise from one of the photographic exercises book I have purchased. My understanding is that we have to are photo of an everyday situation/object and make it beautiful. I have, in my opinion, already done this a few times and here is one of the ones I like. I […]
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