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| Photo credit: MU Photography |
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Disneyworld Before and After
Since the advent of photography, photographers have been enhancing photographs with a little bit of "post-processing". Whether this post processing is done with chemicals in a film darkroom or digitally in the digital darkroom, a large part of the art of photography, in my opinion, lies in the ability to infuse that extra little bit of magic into an image after it has been captured.
Photography Parties
A great part about being a photographer is being able to capture memories for our kids and grandkids once we are gone. Or even creating those extra special moments to share with friends and families. Because of this, and because of the documentary nature of photography, there has been a resurgence lately, since the advent of digital photography, in women being photographers. We are not only the caretakers for our families, but are now the documentarians too. We want to preserve these fabulous childhood memories for our kids and as such, many of us are picking up our dSLRs and doing just that. I, for one, am so glad that my father was a photographer and that I now have the opportunity to look back on my childhood memories and also share these with my own children. And I look forward to creating the same opportunities for my children.
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| My father and I, in the 1970's |
Shallow Depth of Field - Clickin Moms Blog Circle
Hello All,
This month's theme is shallow Depth of Field. Once you're done checking out this Yummy post, click on the link at the end to check out Mickisha, the next fabulous Clickin' Mom in the circle and her take on shallow depth of field.
Depth of Field is a measurement of how much of the "depth" in your image appears in focus. A shallow depth of field means that there is only a small portion of the image that appears in sharp focus and the rest is fairly blurry. Depth of field is controlled by various things including how close the subject is to the lens, the type of lens used to shoot the image and the aperture selected for the shot (smaller f#/ larger aperture = more shallow depth of field).
This month's theme is shallow Depth of Field. Once you're done checking out this Yummy post, click on the link at the end to check out Mickisha, the next fabulous Clickin' Mom in the circle and her take on shallow depth of field.
Depth of Field is a measurement of how much of the "depth" in your image appears in focus. A shallow depth of field means that there is only a small portion of the image that appears in sharp focus and the rest is fairly blurry. Depth of field is controlled by various things including how close the subject is to the lens, the type of lens used to shoot the image and the aperture selected for the shot (smaller f#/ larger aperture = more shallow depth of field).
Beautiful Ugly - Clickin Moms Blog Circle
Since the beginning of this year, I have been part of a fabulous group of online women photographers (and we have a few men in the group too to keep it interesting) called Clickin' Moms. It's a group of people of all skill levels interested in photography and is a wonderful and accepting place to share and learn all about our passion behind (and if we're brave enough, sometimes in front of) the lens. This month, I have also been privileged to join some of these fabulous Clickin' Moms in a blog circle.
This month's theme was Beautiful Ugly and was inspired by a Clickin' Moms creativity exercise. The challenge was to photograph a subject or scene traditionally considered ugly, unappealing, undesirable, or even downright repulsive... and capture it in a way that draws us in.
This month's theme was Beautiful Ugly and was inspired by a Clickin' Moms creativity exercise. The challenge was to photograph a subject or scene traditionally considered ugly, unappealing, undesirable, or even downright repulsive... and capture it in a way that draws us in.
Macro Photography - Getting in Close
Have you ever wanted to get in just a little bit closer to your subject? Photography is all about seeing and capturing the beauty of the moment and sometimes pushing that to it's limits to capture what cannot be seen. One branch of this is macro photography (i.e. - close-up photography) and it's a gorgeous topic to explore and get lost in for an afternoon (or maybe just a few minutes if that's all you've got for escape time, as I'm sure many of you do ;)
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| image credit: MU Photography |
The Exposure Triangle - Third times a charm!
We have now come "full circle" to consider the third side of the exposure triangle - ISO. Yippee!!
Click here to visit The Exposure Triangle Part 1: Shutter Speed
Click here to visit The Exposure Triangle Part 2: Aperture
Three settings to help us get proper exposure of our images - totally a reason to shoot in manual as in other settings, the camera might chose these for you and fairly often will do so incorrectly (and, although it's "smart", it's not as smart as you as it can't actually see and think - even though some camera dealers will try and convince you otherwise ;)
ISO is a setting that is a bit of a left-over from film days (anyone remember those days, ahh...) and is what changes the light sensitivity of your sensor.
Click here to visit The Exposure Triangle Part 1: Shutter Speed
Click here to visit The Exposure Triangle Part 2: Aperture
Three settings to help us get proper exposure of our images - totally a reason to shoot in manual as in other settings, the camera might chose these for you and fairly often will do so incorrectly (and, although it's "smart", it's not as smart as you as it can't actually see and think - even though some camera dealers will try and convince you otherwise ;)
ISO is a setting that is a bit of a left-over from film days (anyone remember those days, ahh...) and is what changes the light sensitivity of your sensor.
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| image credit: MU Photography |
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