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With the warm summer sun setting into a clear sky, sailboarders take advantage of the afternoon winds to glide along the surface of the Pamlico Sound, a calm alternative to the the churning waters of the Atlantic just a few yards away on June 29, 2019, near Buxton, NC.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Oct 31, 2015."
I made the choice because of factors that had little to do with the photo itself - the subject here is indeed a beautiful young woman, and I think she looks great in the photo, but that wasn't the point...
First: it's relatively rare, for me, that I can take a photo of someone who isn't moving, or smiling stupidly, or somehow changing their expression because they know the camera is aimed at them. The woman here was sound asleep, sitting across from me in the Acela train, so she had no idea I was aiming my innocent-looking camera phone at her. (Indeed, I doubt that she would have noticed even if she was awake, but that's another story...)
There is an often-repeated adage in the photography biz (from Robert Capa, I think) that "if your pictures aren't good enough, then you're not close enough." And in most of the photography classes that I take, the instructor tells everyone (especially me, it seems) to put away our telephoto lens, use a normal-length (50mm) or wide-angle lens (28mm or 35mm) lens, and get closer to the subject we're photographing. Okay, so maybe I should pay more attention to that advice ... though I am not yet convinced that the results would be worth the effort, if the subject was actually awake.
As for the photo itself: it's obviously "soft," which is a polite way of saying that it's not really "tack sharp." Maybe that's because the iPhone shoots everything at an aperture of f/2.2 so you get a certain amount of blurring with the shallow DoF, whereas you probably wouldn't notice it with an aperture of f/8, or even f/5.6.
But it also means, as a practical matter, that you have to be much more careful about focusing the camera precisely on the subject that you're photographing ... which I often forget to do. I generally rely on the auto-focus feature of whatever camera I happen to be using, and it generally does a pretty good job. With the the iPhone, you can touch the screen lightly to get the camera to focus on whatever part of the image you're concerned with ... but if you then move the camera/phone, the focusing will change. I've read up on this a little more carefully now, and realize that I have to "press hard" on the relevant portion of the displayed image, in order to tell the camera that I want to "lock" the focus (and the exposure) on a specific part of the displayed image.
What I've been doing, in most cases, is simply holding down the shutter-button for several seconds, in order to get a continuous "burst" of shots, from which the iPhone camera-mechanism will automatically choose the one (or ones) that it thinks are sharpest. That doesn't necessarily mean that it chooses the best image, but at least it should get rid of most of the blurry ones. I thought that was particularly relevant in this case, because we were on a moving train that was rocking, jiggling, and bumping in unpredictable ways ... so I couldn't be sure of getting a "steady" shot, no matter how hard I tried.
Of course, what I could have done -- and probably should have done, since the subject here was sound asleep for about half an hour -- was to put my iPhone away, and retrieve one of my other cameras, which would have allowed me to change the aperture to something like f/8.
Maybe next time ...
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As I reported in a separate Flickr album a couple months ago, most of my business trips have involved air travel from New York City; I’ve seen the insides of more airports and more airplanes than I care to remember.
But most of my trips along the eastern corridor of the U.S. have involved trains, and I find them to be a very relaxing and enjoyable contrast. These trips almost always start with a subway ride to Penn Station, rather than a taxi ride to JFK or LGA or EWR; and they are followed by a relatively pleasant journey along the East Coast on an Amtrak Acela train that has a much greater chance of departing and arriving on time than most of my airplane journeys.
I took a recent trip to Philadelphia in August 2015 and then another one (for a different client) in October 2015. In both cases, my journey began with a subway ride from 96th Street to Penn Station; and then a train trip from the Amtrak terminal in NYC’s Penn Station to the architecturally interesting Amtrak station in Philadelphia, before reaching my client’s office for a day-long meeting. At the end of the day, the journey reversed itself, and I was back home shortly after dinner.
I took a few photos and videos along the way; the ones I’ve uploaded here are representative of the trip...
~ Fair Warning - didn't have my tripod so this is rather wobbly! Hope you don't get motion sickness.~
Heard a Chipmunk "barking" the other morning, sounding out it's alarm call. The barking went on and on and on - so I went to see if I could see what was the problem.
Couldn't see anything but the alarm continued so I grabbed the camera. After a bit I noticed several squirrels were also VERY upset about something.
I never did see what had everyone so upset but I'm wondering if a cat was lurking about somewhere? Not an action packed video but on a chippy's horror scale of 1-10, this might rate a 8.
A weird panoramic view inside the Tvisongur sound sculpture situated above the town of Seydisfiordur in Iceland.
It was built by German artist Lukas Kühne and consists of five interconnected domes of different sizes. Each dome has its own resonance that corresponds to a tone in the Icelandic musical tradition of five-tone harmony, and works as a natural amplifier to that tone.
See www.flickr.com/photos/dave-hill/53706118352/in/dateposted... for a more conventional view.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland. May 2016. © David Hill
As seen from Mukilteo, WA.
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A wonderful sound made by these two superb locomotives. GWR Manor class No. 7820 "Dinmore Manor" pilots GWR King class No. 6023 "King Edward II" past Chicken curve on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire railway.
Another one of my boys who doesn't get spoiled with photos as much, even though he's so beautiful (though his faceup is very very old >.<).
(He gets spoiled with wigs instead. He has three different styles. All grey though :))
Vision is a MigiDoll Vamp Miho on a Delf body. He's an odd bird... a demon bound by contract to another demon. Despite his impassive demeanor, he is very happy. As he will tell you, "What could be better than knowing that even after I die, my soul will belong to the one I love?"
A guitar is meant to be played not displayed just as God gave us gifts and talents to be used and not abused for His glory.
Desolation Sound Aug 2008
Desolation Sound Aug 2008
desolation sound aug 2008
desolation sound aug 2008
Gramophone internal sound box.
Camera: Fuji GX680
Lens: Fujinon 180mm f5.6
Film: Shangay GP3 @100
Developer: Caffenol CM (rs)
Light: Lite Panels (1x1)
Beautifull Doubtfull Sound in Fiordland, South Island on New Zealand. Picture was taken from the back of a small boat. I was very lucky to get blue skies in this area where it rains more than 240 days and about 10 meters a year.
Model / Photographer: Zachary Zufreur
"Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe & sound..."
"Speed of Sound" installation by Village Bike Inc, Qld.
artists' statement: Sound is not static, it is dynamic, facing and accelerating, quiet and percussive. Slower morbid tunes in the still of the morning, faster tempo as the wind generates more speed with the afternoon sea breeze, a frenetic cacophony in a storm. We up-cycle cycles and fix broken bikes to capture wind to generate movement with simple kinetic pieces, followed by multiple movements of parts horizontally and vertically, circular and cyclic. More than sound: music, beat, song. All through nature: captured, harnessed, but free.
Swell Sculpture Festival
Surrounding sounds, that inserts to me in a bubble
where nothing else I can vibrate with smooth melodies
and sweet voices, is my own world.
please, View On Black
Selfportrait by Previsto