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First drawing lesson on drawing from observation . Students were asked to draw a pair of scissors from memory, and then draw one from observation (looking at a real pair of scissors, not a photo). This is from the 2nd week of a beginning art class in high school.
I ready somewhere that one the of the first lessons of portrait photography was finding a good angle. I don't think I did too well here, but I seemed to capture three at the same time in the lift at work.
Not my usual style of pic, I know, but I'm a bit busy at the moment so just snapped this with my iPhone 4S today.
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Lots of students who finished our beginners course went on to take improver windsurfing lessons with us at the Poole Windsurfing School during July. Here is some of the action!
Here are photos from our monthly meeting of the Mill Valley Community Action Network (MVCAN) on December 3, 2017. MVCAN is an all-volunteer group of Marin residents who support American values and democracy. I joined this local political group in 2017, to resist the conservative takeover of our government and the Trump regime.
For this meeting, our guest speaker was Ben Wessel, Deputy Political Director at NextGen and an expert on community outreach and grassroots organizing. He told us how progressives won recent elections in Virginia by reaching out to young voters.
We then discussed as a group lessons learned in 2017, and what we hoped to achieve in 2018. We started with table discussions on those points, then wrote our individual goals on post-it notes. MVCAN team leaders then gave updates on what their groups accomplished this year and planned to do next year.
As our Events Team leader, I talked about the impact of the MVCAN Anniversary we produced last month at the Throckmorton Theatre, and how it celebrated people who took political action this year, as well as raised funds for our cause and engaged more folks to join forces with us.
I like being part of a community of dedicated citizens who share my values. Together, we can more effectively promote liberty and justice, as well as resist the Trump regime. Join your neighbors to keep democracy alive!
See more of my photos of MVCAN events: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157680948826162
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The thought occurred to me this morning, that trying to take a picture
of lighting is sort of like trying to take a picture of fireworks.
It's a really tricky situation to photograph and you have to learn
from experience (which is hard to come by) or read up on what someone
has done before. Here's what happened to me this morning.
The storm has already passed and it's 15 minutes before sunrise. The
sky is growing brighter and the storm growing more distant with each
passing minute. I'm trying to make the exposure last as long as
possible (30 seconds on my camera) so that I have the greatest chance
of catching a lightning strike. So, I'm closing down the aperture to
keep the shutter speed at 30 seconds. It hit me that -- just like
fireworks -- the smaller the aperture, the "skinnier" the light trails
(fireworks or lightning) look. In addition, you are "gathering" so
much light with such a long exposure that the sky can compete with the
brightness of the lightning strike.
Sure enough, you can see it in this picture. At center-right, above
the tree line where the deep blue meets the light area, you can barely
see the lightning bolt. It was quite dramatic in real life but it
barely shows in a picture. This one -- shot at F10 -- is barely
noticeable. The one at F13 (not shown) is even worse. The one I shot
at F22 (and I know I got it) isn't visible even at full resolution
viewing it full screen.
Lesson: When there's a lot of light in the sky, stick to the middle
apertures (I always use F8 unless I have a specific reason to use
something else) and you'll just have to get lucky on the shutter
being open at the right time to catch the lightning strike.
The big lesson is that it's a whole lot easier to get a lightning shot
when it's dark and you can leave the shutter open longer. Be
careful. Being out in a lightning storm is inherently risky.
Nikon D5100 -- Nikon 18-55mm
19mm
F10@30 seconds
(DSC_9592)
©Don Brown 2012
Now you know why boats are stored upside down out of the water. This boat while looking pristine is underwater.
learning how to make borders.. this one, I double clicked the layer for Layer Fx and chose settings there... Drop shadow to give the border some depth from the photo. ( saw some people say the photos need to be the same but different all at once... ) I then added bevel and emboss at standard strength... I then did a pattern overlay which came out a pretty blue...but I wanted green so I added a layer with a hue effect to get the green I imagined.
These boats are in Sweden.
A lesson practicing emergency dismounts (basically falling off your horse in an emergency, always good to practice sometimes,) Also everyone is wearing some sort of Halloween thing, although most of it got taken off.
Harness and beachstarts being practiced in these shots from the improver windsurf lessons run at the Poole Windsurfing School.
A lesson practicing emergency dismounts (basically falling off your horse in an emergency, always good to practice sometimes,) Also everyone is wearing some sort of Halloween thing, although most of it got taken off.
The Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack NY will be presenting “A Lesson Before Dying“, running March 17th thru April 8th Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm with an additional performance on Thursday April 6th at 8pm. For tickets visit www.elmwoodplayhouse.com [photo by Scott Nangle]
I am attending lesson in photoshoot.
hoping that I can be a better photographer than I am to day.
this picture was taken in these lessons.
location Hafnafjörður Iceland