Anna Gorin
Paint the hills red
It's funny, if anyone were to ask me "Anna, what style of photography is your favorite?", which no one ever does, they might be surprised to find out that I'm often drawn to styles completely different from my own. That's not to say I don't like my own stuff (sometimes), but it isn't typically what catches my eye as "oh wow" in other people's streams.
So sometimes I ask myself "Anna, if you like Other People's styles so much better, why don't you try to do more stuff like that yourself?", and usually the answer is pure laziness and habit. But in the spirit of exploration and learning, I've been trying to branch out into doing new things, like using that nifty fifty lens for things besides standard portraits and shooting wide open, and stitching multiple wide-open shots together for the "Brenizer Method" bokeh panorama look (7 or 8 vertical frames stitched here).
Of course, be careful what you try and wish for. Now I'm wishing I hadn't gone with conventional Flickr wisdom of shooting wide open and instead stopped down from 1.4 a bit! Oregon's Painted Hills are just a little too out of focus for my taste here and I'd have shot at 2.0 or 2.8 or something were I to do it over. (Not likely to happen soon, since it took me ages to get out to the Painted Hills in the first place, considering they're 5-6 hours from my house and in the middle of nowhere.)
But hooray for not staying stuck in a rut. And crossing places off your travel destination list. And not stepping on rattlesnakes fellow tourists informed you were close by.
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Paint the hills red
It's funny, if anyone were to ask me "Anna, what style of photography is your favorite?", which no one ever does, they might be surprised to find out that I'm often drawn to styles completely different from my own. That's not to say I don't like my own stuff (sometimes), but it isn't typically what catches my eye as "oh wow" in other people's streams.
So sometimes I ask myself "Anna, if you like Other People's styles so much better, why don't you try to do more stuff like that yourself?", and usually the answer is pure laziness and habit. But in the spirit of exploration and learning, I've been trying to branch out into doing new things, like using that nifty fifty lens for things besides standard portraits and shooting wide open, and stitching multiple wide-open shots together for the "Brenizer Method" bokeh panorama look (7 or 8 vertical frames stitched here).
Of course, be careful what you try and wish for. Now I'm wishing I hadn't gone with conventional Flickr wisdom of shooting wide open and instead stopped down from 1.4 a bit! Oregon's Painted Hills are just a little too out of focus for my taste here and I'd have shot at 2.0 or 2.8 or something were I to do it over. (Not likely to happen soon, since it took me ages to get out to the Painted Hills in the first place, considering they're 5-6 hours from my house and in the middle of nowhere.)
But hooray for not staying stuck in a rut. And crossing places off your travel destination list. And not stepping on rattlesnakes fellow tourists informed you were close by.
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