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This is another shot of the trio of mushrooms that I posted last week taken from a slightly different angle.
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I spend a lot of time in the forest surrounding our community. It's the morning outing for our dog, Heidi, but it's also a special place simply to be. That was the topic on my website this week.
"Daily dog walks, come along"
There aren't many leaves left on the trees after several nights of freezing temperatures, but they all remain on the ground, creating a beautiful scene.
Stoppenbach Park
Jefferson, WI, USA
May 1, 2018
A herring is working its way upstream to spawn. The herring (alewives and bluebacks) have several small falls that they must negotiate during their return to their ancestral spawning grounds.
Selected for Flickr's FlickrFriday gallery: "Low Angle"
May 3, 2018
(a "Flickr Friday" submission, theme "Low Angle. ")
Stony Brook Herring Run
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2018
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They carried their guns low, against the regulations. They were special that way.
I photograph these guys in a place where there is not possible to shoot eye-level compositions without having trees in frame. I don't mind though.
(Explored)
I've made it no secret that I started manual photography from complete scratch less than 2 years ago and took the same approach to photo editing starting not long after. I like to think my photostream shows both my growth and stumbles in an organized, mostly chronological progression.
Learning through trial and error has always felt like the most enjoyable approach, though being unprepared for some situations has obviously cost me many shots I can't get back. I see shots from the past that have absurd setting choices, mainly because I didn't know better nor what each component to a shot was. I imagine it's very similar to trying to learn a musical instrument before you can read music. At that point, it's all memorization without learning. Often I got lucky with results, though my technique was tedious. Once I had my subject, it was more quantity vs quality. I figured i was more likely to get the result I wanted with a large group to choose from rather than take the time to try and properly shoot a small handful of well composed shots.
I'd almost argue that the photo editing process has been more of a challenge than photography for me. Without any understanding of lightroom and photoshop, many of the most basic tasks are either too complicated or completely unknown. Photoshop Elements 10 was my first purchased software and I remember how foreign it seemed. Then I transitioned to lightroom and photoshop CC which was night and day to my old copy of Elements and most recently, started to incorporate some of the NIK software now that it's available for free.
For me, the biggest joy is when I get home to review a shoot and think "wow, that's straight out of the camera". The feeling of getting a mostly technically correct image and knowing it won't take much to get it to what my eyes were seeing. My biggest frustrations though through this journey have been the roundabout way I edit and the issue of getting what I see in lightroom or photoshop to be how it looks on the internet. More often than not, the clean finished project I see turns into a bit of a mess. The colors don't match, the smoothness in the long exposure seem like they've been switched with color noise and banding. Images I think are wonderful become drafts I don't feel I can post.
Because of this, I end up agonizing over my process, essentially doing a few tiny edits at a time before I save the image as a draft and upload to a flickr edit album to review and compare and then repeat again and again until dozens of drafts later when I'm either finally satisfied with how it looks on my screen, iphone and tablet or I move on to the next image frustrated. Each time I figure something out, there's a wave of excitement as I think of all the images I stashed away for when I knew how to edit them correctly.
This image isn't perfect but it represents the solution for another simple error I didn't understand how to fix or even what the issue actually was. I've asked some people why many of my long exposures don't look the same on flickr and a few other online destinations as they do in lightroom and photoshop, and it's often hard to explain the issues since I don't know a lot of the terminology or how to accurately convey the problem. Different monitors, auto glare dimmers, incorrect color profiles. It often feels like the draft that I like in lightroom looks to contain 10% of the clarity and correctness everywhere else.
On my editing screen, the colors seemed great, I didn't have any of the horrible banding or patches of irregular color but on flickr, it was an absolute mess. My photoshop defaults on "CMYK" under proof setup so I switched it to "monitor RGB". Next, I saved an image as a draft under the default save settings and then resaved the same draft but unclicked the default checked box for "embed color profile" and hit save. The first saved draft, as expected, seemed like a low quality version of my finished image (like watching an HD channel on TV but getting a SD picture instead). The second draft with the embed color profile unchecked was much much closer to being correct. The weird patches of color often in shadows or color transitions were truer and nearly gone. I honestly don't know what the settings before really meant and I'm not quite sure why it's working better from a technical point, but it is. It's really frustrating that there would be default settings that would have such a major negative impact on my work, especially since photoshop is so complicated with no background in it. It feels like I'm trying to learn something totally new to me in a foreign language I don't know.
Learning photography from scratch has been an amazing process for me so far, both in terms of seeing my skill and post improve but also my ability to to understand why I'm doing something instead of just getting lucky. The harmony between my photography skill level and editing skill level are rarely in sync and sometimes I end up with a cache of images that i set aside for when the editing catches up. Everytime I refine or learn a new and/or substantial editing skill, my first move is to go back to some of the old images and see if I finally solved the problems I was having. Sometimes they're resolved, other times they're closer but still not to my satisfaction.
Anyway, just wanted to share this story and experience since it seems there's an awful lot of people out there like me who are in the process of learning from scratch and come across obstacles that are both frustrating and frustratingly simple fixes. I still have a lot of anxiety when something doesn't immediately click or what felt like a successful shoot turns doesn't end up that way upon review. I'd love to hear some experiences and stories from other self taught photographers in regards to these hurdles and/or breakthroughs both in terms of shooting and editing.
Mugu Point
Malibu, California
June 11th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/16
172 seconds
ND1000
Już są! Wreszcie dziś wypatrzyłam pierwsze krokusy! :) Malutkie jeszcze, ale cieszę się, że wreszcie się pojawiły :)
First crocuses, which I've seen in this year. They are very small yet, but I've been very happy when I saw them :)
The second chapter of the series takes the ground-level perspective into an inevitable, visually striking confrontation. Looking up from a steep worm's-eye view, she gazes down with a charming, soft, and slightly amused smile. Yet the immediate foreground is commanded by the rugged, worn texture of her mule sole, hovering dynamically right above the lens. Along the edge, the gentle, delicate curves of her bare foot are revealed—a captivating contrast to the unyielding presence of the sole. Her expression exudes a divine composure: she asserts complete control within the familiar setting of home, effortlessly and without a second thought. A breathtaking moment of grace, power, and serene dominance.
mpauliks This is for you Mike!!! Happy Birthday!!!!! ♥
I was going to give you a watch, but ...
Getting low is just part of dogtography, it's just what you do when you land.
~Ted Striker
Huh?
~Elaine Dickerson
Out with a friend and trying to capture light streaks. This was a shot of a random car going by of the Fernwood Inn.
Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.
[Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948]
1 negative : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Notes:
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 355
Purchase William P. Gottlieb
Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Calypso musician
Calypso musicians--1930-1950.
Format: Portrait photographs--1930-1950.
Film negatives--1930-1950.
Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig...
Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005
General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.10281
Call Number: LC-GLB23- 1028
This ice carving should represent the Viking sailing and what not. For me, though, it looks like small crocodile from animation movies. You can see the skin structure carved, nose stretching from the viewer and small hands on the sides.
What crocodile is doing in Sweden and even worse in winter, I don't know :)
I have posted numerous photos of London's famous bridge but here is one from almost right underneath it for a slight change.
Taken at Boundary Bay, BC, Canada - September 2016.
While birding last weekend at Boundary Bay, I spotted some golden plovers mixed in with the abundant Black-bellied Plovers. There were 4 Pacific Golden-Plovers and 2 American Golden-Plovers. Approaching plover flocks is usually extremely difficult, and the tide was also very high, which meant that if I was going to approach the birds, I would get soaking wet. I decided to go for it, since it is very rare to see such a large group of golden-plovers in this area. The water was about 5 inches deep, meaning I got soaking wet as a crawled towards the birds, holding my camera above the surface, keeping it dry. Thankfully, the mud was hard and there was no wind or waves, so I felt my gear was very safe. After a very slow approach for a long time, I found myself around 4 metres away from these beautiful birds. In the years I have photographed shorebirds at Boundary Bay I have had many amazing moments, but this was definitely one of my favorite ones ever. I got the shots I had hoped for of Pacific-Golden, American-Golden, and Black-bellied Plovers. I got soaking wet, but it was undoubtedly worth it! After some time with the birds I moved off, leaving them to their resting and feeding.