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Can you teach someone to make a stunning photograph? I have always thought the answer was yes. You teach them about simplifying the image. To shoot in good light and to understand all light. The guidelines of composition. How form and colors and textures can work with you or against you. How to let your subjects “in” and truly “feel” what your shooting. How the camera “sees” the world differently then the human eye. How to think like an artist, be more creative......and to shoot with passion.
I just returned from the Imaging USA photo expo in San Antonio yesterday, and I had the opportunity to do some shooting on the way down. As I was looking at the photos on my computer last night I was very much aware of the quality of the images compared with my horrible photos from a few years back. It was a battle, but what a difference!! I truly believe that anyone with dedication and an open mind can learn to be a better photographer. I have never heard of anyone who was great when they started out. But through hours of hard work and time behind the lens learning everything they could from every possible source they slowly became master of their art. I would like to start spending more time sharing knowledge and tips on flickr and my new blog (link coming soon) that I have learned and continue to learn to help with that long process. These images inspired me to begin that journey. No, they are not my best images. They won't stun the world with their beauty, and power. Yet they are strong images despite the fact that they were not taken in the most incredible places on earth. They are strong because of light, form, composition, texture, story, perspective, scale, and in the case of the bottom image, an amazing sunrise and breaking every “rule” in the book. I believe they encompass the ideas I mentioned above and many more. The BW's where taken with a LEE Big Stopper near Corpus Christi (South Texas). The windmill shots and the sunrise shot were taken about an hour from where I live in Southeast Colorado. (I stopped for a few minutes while it was still dark to see what would happen if I took a long exposure and used my Nikon Speedlight {flash} to light the moving blade {thrid image in comments.} As the sun came up I got a pretty good light show behind me {bottom image} and the light from the sunrise was reflecting off the clouds and lighting the windmills {second image in comments} to create that amazing pink glow).
I will be spending time in coming posts explaining in depth the ideas I mentioned above, as well as more concepts and techniques to take better photographs. I have a six month photo trip starting in March to SE Asia, however I will still be posting and active on flickr. (I was recently offered a major book deal, so if I choose to accept it, I may not have as much time, but I will still post as much as possible. {why would you even consider turning down a book deal from a major publisher? Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Not something you want to live by when your trying to create a powerful image in Tibet;})
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Above image
LEE Big Stopper
30 sec
F 11
ISO 200
Nikon 20mm
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One of my attempts at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Doors Knockers Handles".
Shot on a Schneider Kreuznach "Apo-Componon 60 mm F 4 Makro Iris" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
mind boggling
following in the footsteps of jaime F. I am taking a "fave" holiday.
his list here below the photo suits me perfectly.
I continue to try and simplify.
I love invitations to groups. love them! but I don't like those big or sparkly icons. so, as much as I love being invited to groups, and love you for inviting me, I will delete them.
sorry.
This is one of the smaller falls a little upstream from Bond Falls in Michigan. Created using Topaz Simplify
I filled a glass baking dish with water and placed the daisy just barley under the water. I left the stem long enough to touch the bottom to keep it from moving around. After frozen I placed it in my window for back light to photograph it. Adjustments in LR and Topaz Simplify.
Overwhelmed by life? It helps me to remember that monkeys also exist, and they’re just chillin' in trees. If that doesn't work, take a nap.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
AX514, part of the Dublin Bus Sightseeing fleet is seen in a new simplified livery which is at the discretion of the eye of the beholder, AX513 and AX515 also carry this livery.
I had a lot of textured and dense variations to the background, but I'm working toward simplicity. This is actually my simplified background. I was going to add a boat, but the Bride & Groom looked pretty good in the water. Anything for a picture.
I know it's a little fuzzy...but...if I can get her interested in photography, it leaves lisa as the last stone!
"Simplify, simplify."
~ Henry David Thoreau
I know that the world is not in black and white... but this rose turned out with such beauty. The petals look so so transparent, soft, and delicate.
Yunnan (simplified Chinese: 云南; literally "South of the Clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers (152,000 square miles). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.
Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity. It has the highest number of ethnic groups among all provinces and autonomous regions in China. Among the country's fifty-six recognised ethnic groups, twenty-five are found in Yunnan. Some 38% of the province's population are members of minorities, including the Yi, Bai, Hani, Tai, Dai, Miao, Lisu, Hui, Lahu, Va, Nakhi, Yao, Tibetan, Jingpo, Blang, Pumi, Nu, Achang, Jinuo, Mongolian, Derung, Manchu, Shui, and Buyei. Several other groups are represented, but they live neither in compact settlements nor do they reach the required threshold of five thousand to be awarded the official status of being present in the province. Some groups, such as the Mosuo, who are officially recognised as part of the Naxi, have in the past claimed official status as a national minority, and are now recognised with the status of Mosuo people.
Ethnic groups are widely distributed in the province. Some twenty-five minorities live in compact communities, each of which has a population of more than five thousand. Ten ethnic minorities living in border areas and river valleys include the Hui, Manchu (the Manchu, remnants of the Qing administration, do not live in compact settlements and are in all respects indistinguishable from the Han), Bai, Naxi, Mongolian, Zhuang, Dai, Achang, Buyei and Shui, with a combined population of 4.5 million; those in low mountainous areas are the Hani, Yao, Lahu, Va, Jingpo, Blang and Jino, with a combined population of 5 million; and those in high mountainous areas are Miao, Lisu, Tibetan, Pumi and Drung, with a total population of four million.
An oft-repeated proverb tells the story of three brothers who were born speaking different languages: Tibetan, Naxi, and Bai. Each settled in different areas of Yunnan and Tibet, respectively, the high area, the middle area, and the low area.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[...] The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak [...]
-- Quote by Hans Hoffman
Rome, Italy (April, 2008)
simplified and folded by me in single layer silver rectangle
I thought origami might present some interesting possibilities for this week's Macro Mondays theme, but it took a while to find something new to fold that satisfied me. I folded a few variations but didn't get around to a shoot until this morning. I narrowed down my selection to a set of four: two in blue, two in yellow. I think they work well together.
The original model uses a sheet of A4 paper folded in on itself lengthwise with edges that form a flange. The center portion is divided into diagonals that form the resulting spiral. I tried this with A4 and A5 papers and wasn't happy with either. I had a few small scrap sheets I use for practising dollar bill origami so I left out the lengthwise folds and simplified the side flange.
Later I found an online tutorial from yourgenome.org by Dr Alan Bateman based on Thoki Yenn's model but incorporating a printed template. I folded my diagonals as mountains instead of valleys, so according to this model,
my DNA is backwards --
---- AND?
Found that one lucky fractal that happened to look a bit like the Alien..
The Polynomial
@3000x3000, in-game downsampling
Gamma, exposure, saturation edited in-game
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter. . .to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~ John Burroughs
Grand Turk Island - May 2010...Wanna jump in.....View On Black
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