Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Friday, September 26, 2014
Chillin
Upon a recent visit to the mountain state I saw my little nephew Issac Samulski relaxing under the tree and grabbed this little snap while he wasn't lookin. Capture taken with a Panasonic GF1 and a 20mm lens, auto everything, no post editing.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Saturday, June 7, 2014
In Your Dreams
Not intending to stay away for so long, I slept...and while sleeping I dreamed...sometimes it's better to stay awake!
Photographed with Canon T2I/50mm on extension tubes, ISO400 F1.8 1/1000s. Processed in PE6 & OnOnePerfect Photo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider
Photographed with Canon T2I/50mm on extension tubes, ISO400 F1.8 1/1000s. Processed in PE6 & OnOnePerfect Photo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Shoot Your Family
I came across this post from another PhotoBlog I watch and it made me think of all the pictures I wish I'd taken. MO and I have been scanning some old family negatives and finding some real gems, but the more I see the more I know is missing.
Which leads me to the point of this piece. Lest we forget, the primary reason most of us originally bought cameras was to record our lives. Our families. Our friends. Our travels. The things that give us joy. The things we love and care most for. The pursuit of "art" and self-expression is also a wonderful use of a camera. But it's a terrible mistake to allow such pursuits to distract you from covering all of the personal treasures of your life.
So may I suggest that today would be a good time to take pictures of the important souls in your world if you don't routinely do so. PRINT the pictures, the good and the "bad," and put them in a safe place. I can almost guarantee that one day they will become the most valuable pictures in your collection.
Lest We Forget
Written by Kenneth Tanaka
This week I lost a member of my family,
someone who was part of my daily world for nearly half of my life. It
can be all too easy to take someone so close for granted and let them
become invisible. To my great dismay, despite owning a small fortune
worth of camera equipment, that's what I had done. I could find no
photos of him amidst the tens of thousands of images in my library.
Fortunately my wife, the sharper member of our partnership, had not
suffered such a lapse and had an excellent series of snapshots from
earlier this year. It was wonderful to see them. They'll certainly be
treasures for the rest of our lives.Which leads me to the point of this piece. Lest we forget, the primary reason most of us originally bought cameras was to record our lives. Our families. Our friends. Our travels. The things that give us joy. The things we love and care most for. The pursuit of "art" and self-expression is also a wonderful use of a camera. But it's a terrible mistake to allow such pursuits to distract you from covering all of the personal treasures of your life.
So may I suggest that today would be a good time to take pictures of the important souls in your world if you don't routinely do so. PRINT the pictures, the good and the "bad," and put them in a safe place. I can almost guarantee that one day they will become the most valuable pictures in your collection.
©2013 by Kenneth Tanaka, all rights reserved
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
No Apologies
I'm no great photo editor but I do like to play. When I take the camera out for a spin I shoot a ton of shots trying to find a good balance of light and shadow, color and composition. Generally I don't think "What a great Shot!". I figure with a little digital magic from one of several photo-editing software suites I might come up with something interesting and possibly nice to look at.
I saw these coneflowers while mowing the "north forty" the other day and figured they might be worth photographing. Mid-morning light with good contrast from daylight to shadow. Good configuration of individual blossoms and nice contrasting blue flowers in the background. I took about a dozen shots as I circled the threesome. I used an old Nikon 70-210 zoom adapted to my Canon. The telephoto opened wide gives a nice blurred background with shallow depth of field. Though the flowers were beyond their peak I figured I could use that to my advantage in editing. A nice enough picture but I wanted something a little more.
I first used the automated fixer in Photoshop elements,saved the new
file and opened it in OnOne PerfectPhoto. This software is the perfect sandbox for me to play in as it provides many one click variables for many different looks. I wanted a kinda old artsy look and fiddled with several options til I was satisfied and here you see the results. Nothing out of this world but I like it and for me thats what counts.
I saw these coneflowers while mowing the "north forty" the other day and figured they might be worth photographing. Mid-morning light with good contrast from daylight to shadow. Good configuration of individual blossoms and nice contrasting blue flowers in the background. I took about a dozen shots as I circled the threesome. I used an old Nikon 70-210 zoom adapted to my Canon. The telephoto opened wide gives a nice blurred background with shallow depth of field. Though the flowers were beyond their peak I figured I could use that to my advantage in editing. A nice enough picture but I wanted something a little more.
I first used the automated fixer in Photoshop elements,saved the new
file and opened it in OnOne PerfectPhoto. This software is the perfect sandbox for me to play in as it provides many one click variables for many different looks. I wanted a kinda old artsy look and fiddled with several options til I was satisfied and here you see the results. Nothing out of this world but I like it and for me thats what counts.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Relative Project
MO and I are digitizing a bunch of old negatives and hope to compile them in some meaningful way. We've come across some with unknown faces. In this photo we can only recognize Artemus Ellsworth Handy(Grandad),far left and Margret Mae 'Clark' Handy(Granny), 2nd from right. Who are those other people?!
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