Sunday, February 3, 2013
Flash and photo editing
Sometimes, the picture one wants isn’t the one that can be taken. The other morning, our cats were on the bathroom counter side by side. The dilemma was, whether to use the portrait or landscape orientation. While portrait offered the best framing option, an odd thing happens when you use a flash,...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Get close
Find the macro focus point on your camera, then use it! This African Violet begged to have it's picture taken, those droplet like textures on the leaves aren't visible from across the room. Then I realized a slightly different angle offered a different view of the center of the flower. So I got even...
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Crystal clear...maybe
Photographers constantly battle focus. After all, without a crisp focus, photos like this can't highlight the detail that caught the eye in the first place. Other times, maybe a hint of soft focus grabs the feeling better. Here, the fog was the main wintery feeling, nearly obscuring the mountain in...
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Leaf them lie
As I was getting ready to rake leaves, I noticed quite a variation in the coloration and patterns on the leaves. Up close the color transformations are caught in mid turn. So now we know that like snowflakes, no two leaves are the same. But much like snowflakes, their mixtures do blend to form a...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Old fashioned elegance and a silly joke
Inside the mansion proved lavish. It was after I was posting these on facebook that I came up with the captions. Don't worry if you don't get it. Unless you listened to Firesign Theater's "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye" you wont' have a clue. Are those your cues? Why yes they are. Then...
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Tell a story
Photos are well worth a thousand words and in this day of digital media, one can just snap away, then cherry pick the shots worth keeping later on. When my son got married, they chose to have the ceremony on the grounds of the bed and breakfast they were staying in. The gazeebo seemed like the ideal...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Details
Of course it's the touches that make any home a standout. Moreso for historical homes. This one featured stained glass windows and beautiful wood inlay on the floors.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Historically speaking
My son and his bride chose this historical mansion/bed & breakfast as the venue for their wedding. I never knew it existed, but then most towns have historical districts. Spokane has an abundance of cool old houses and this is one of the better ones available for public use. I don't know when it was...
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
What catches the eye
It was only after I had downloaded photos from this weekend that I realized I had taken pictures of a stained glass window from the inside and outside. Historic mansions such as this one in Spokane, Washington are great photo ops. The outside shot combines the stained glass window and the...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Just for fun
Really, most photos should be fun but sometimes the serious business of composing, focusing, settings and making sure the lens cap is off just get in the way. For this shot I used my tripod and the remote trigger accessory since I was to be one of the subjects in the shot. I'm the one with the goofy...
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