A Photo a Week Challenge: Bokeh Bokeh — a wonderful word whose origin is (I believe) Japanese but might be Korean — means the softening of backgrounds in portraits and macro photography. Some lenses are designed to do it, others are… Read More ›
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ORANGE BEGONIAS: FOCUS
Hanging flowers. Where to focus? When you shoot close, you can focus front, middle, or back and the effect is very different. The orange begonias are interesting. So bright, they come up best in rather low light. Sunshine on the… Read More ›
FOCUS: THURSDAY’S SPECIAL
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: FOCUS
DIFFERENT FOCUS: A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE
From Nancy Merrill: In a new post created for this challenge, share a photo or two of form having unusual points of focus. I’m not sure how “unusual” my focus is, but I do like playing with focus. Sometimes foreground,… Read More ›
ON THE GO STRESS CONTROL: VISUALIZATION & MINDFULNESS – ELLIN CURLEY
ON THE GO STRESS CONTROL / PART 4 This is the final part of a four-part series. You can read the others here: Part I, Part 2, Part 3. Stress Everyday stress is a killer. Literally. The greatest damage from… Read More ›
It’s Not Your Equipment … It’s a Lack of Documentation! – Marilyn Armstrong
Maybe I should just give up, but I spent my career writing material to help folks use complicated equipment and sometimes very obscure software. I should probably start by mentioning that I’ve fought this battle for long years … and was… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus – Sweet Bokeh
My portrait lens is designed to produce a wafer-thin depth of field and a soft, blurred background (bokeh). It’s useful for more than portraits, of course and can produce some beautiful landscape and art photographs. Related articles Weekly Photo Challenge:… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus or Lack Thereof
And then sometimes, there’s a special photo. A happy accident? It’s not one thing, it’s not another. What is it? I call it art. I took this shot a while ago and I’ve been playing with it off and on…. Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus – Tall, high and far away
Three different pictures with very different focus … and effects on the viewer. Related articles Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus (caamnetwork.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus (dailypost.wordpress.com) Weekly photo challenge: focus one (robssurfreport.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus (suzie81.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus… Read More ›
Life along the way
I spent the day doing a task all photographers must face. It’s no fun, but there’s no avoiding it. Sooner or later, the time comes to weed through the pictures, to take stock and get organized. It was time to… Read More ›