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Note: this photo was published in a Jul 6, 2012 issue of Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jul 6, 2012.
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This was taken on the southeast corner of Broadway & 96th Street, during the "golden hour" between 6-8 PM a few evenings ago, when the sun drops down over the western horizon and casts its glow up 96th Street…
Crowds of people swirl up and down the street all evening along, and then wait at the corner of 96th Street for the light to change -- so they can cross over to the median strip between the uptown and downtown lanes of Broadway, and then walk into the subway stop of the #1 IRT subway line.
Of all the people in the swirl, I noticed this mop-haired person with the blue shirt and the unruly hair … and I snapped photo after photo after photo as both of them stood on the corner and talked intensely for several minutes.
The traffic light changed, but they didn't walk towards me at all, into the subway station. Instead, they moved even closer and closer and closer to one another ... they kissed, and then they walked away -- one of them heading north across 96th Street, and the other turning east, and walking up the hill towards Amsterdam Avenue.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what was really going on here. I have to admit that I didn't understand it at the time … but one of the other photos that I took (and which I will not be uploading to Flickr) explained the details to me.
By the way, that is not my reflection in the window behind the two subjects of this photo. For photos like this, I am -- and always want to be -- invisible and anonymous.
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Over the past several years, I've grown so accustomed to the "automatic" features in my cameras that I've almost completely forgotten how to do anything manually. I think it was the early 1990s when auto-focus mechanisms began to creep into the point-and-shoot cameras that I used to record birthday parties and other family events; and virtually every DSLR camera I've had provides an "automatic-everything" mode that combines autofocus, auto-aperture, auto-shutter-speed, and even auto-ISO auto-white-balance. Most of the time, it works just fine; and it allows me concentrate on figuring out who (or what) I want to include in the picture. For street photography, that's a full-time job in itself.
But sometimes it doesn't work so well; and sometimes, the photographer wants to override what the camera would do by itself. For example, I normally shoot in "aperture-priority" mode, which means that I'm the one who sets the f-stop; and I'll typically set the ISO (speed), and just let the camera figure out what the appropriate shutter speed would be. That generally works pretty well, especially if I've set the aperture to something like f/8 or f/11 in order to get a reasonably deep depth-of-field (DOF), which results in almost everything being in-focus.
Lately, though, I've been getting more and more obsessed with photos that have a shallow DOF, so that the subject of the photo is in sharp focus, but the background is blurred. Aside from a "prime" 50mm f/1.4 lens that I don't use very much, most of my lenses only "open up" to a f/5.6 aperture ... but sometimes even that is enough to cause some problems if I let the camera do its auto-focus thing. Sometimes the camera decides to focus on something other than the subject that I'm interested in; sometimes it bases its focusing decision on an "average" of everything in the frame; and sometimes it gets so utterly confused that it focuses on nothing at all.
So I decided to spend one evening (when I could take advantage of the "golden hour" sunset lighting) reverting back to manual focusing to see if I could force the camera to focus on what *I* wanted to focus on. Bottom line: it works okay if the subject(s) is/are stationary, and you've got a couple seconds to adjust the focus appropriately. But if the subject(s) is/are in motion, as is often the case with street photography, then it's a disaster. By the time I took this shot, I had given up on the whole manual-focus thing, and switched back to auto-focus. However, I chose a particular form of auto-focus that instructed the camera to base its focusing decision on a very small circular section in the middle of the frame ... and not to worry about anything else. It wasn't quite so crucial on this photo, because my aperture somehow ended up at f/6.3 ... but the camera did focus properly, and the background is just slightly blurred.
Now, if I can just find an affordable f/2.8 telephoto lens that doesn't weigh a ton, it will be interesting to see how this manual-focus/spot-focus thing works out...
Knowing how to control your shutter speed can help you achieve all sorts of creative effects. In Issue 34, we show you how your camera's shutter works and what you can do with it! Pick it up in print ow.ly/ss5rG or digitally ow.ly/ss5sU
Low evening light plus a summer shower caused a poor call on the shutter speed for the CP reroute move of train TC100.
Taken with a Canon 60D and Canon 40mm STM, with 2x extension tube. This shows the shutter speeds of 1/25sec, or bulb! that's it.
Shutter - Speed Fast
Movement - Frozen
Aperture - Small-Medium
Depth of Field - Large
Light - Top, Filtered, Harsh/Flat
Colour - Contrast - Grab Attention
Idiom - "They were yellow about picking the wrong path
one light set up only. Flash fire from behind at f8. Shutter speed exposed for ambient light on face.
A slow shutter speed photo of the river Teign as it flows through the Devon Wildlife Trusts Dunsford nature reserve. Photo Kevin Keatley, UK, Camera Nikon D800, Lens 16-35@19mm, F22, 1.30 sec., Cable release and Bean bag to reduce any movement during the exposure. The bean bag is quick and easy to position in places where it would be difficult to use a tripod. The bean bag also helps to dampen any movement cause by the shutter.
More tongue shots are coming! In fact, they're in the comment section. All clickable as always.
HTT, Bogart Style.
[SOOC, f/1.4, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/500]
The same colored lights spinning on a turntable. This time the exposure is 3.2 seconds long, creating a good deal of motion blur. Note that the aperture setting and ISO have been adjusted to create the same exposure as the image with a much faster shutter speed.
Masting shutter speed is very useful for taking great action shots. In our Secret Photo Diary in Issue 33, we reveal top tips for controlling your shutter speed. Pick it up in print ow.ly/s1vn6 or download it onto your digital device ow.ly/s1vpE
Images from Adorama Photography TV: Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 18: Freezing Motion with Shutter.
In this episode Mark demonstrates how to freeze motion by adjusting your camera's shutter speed. This technique is great for capturing things like sports, pets or kids!
View entire video here:
Shutter - Speed Medium-Fast
Movement - Blurred
Aperture - Medium-Small
Depth of Field - Medium
Light - Top, Large , Harsh/Flat
Colour - Contrast