A Bit of Background Can you give us a little peek in on the person behind the camera? I stay on the reverse side of the camera for that very reason—but today we feel open. I love these things most: God, My Family, Light, Optics (this includes my eyes), Iceland and Arizona. If I weren’t an Image [...]
Modern cameras make much use of technology, for exposure measurement they use the 18% grey scale method. This method assumes that regardless of what you are metering in your viewfinder that it must equivocate to 18% grey scale; this is the technological equivalent of a bell curve. Camera in automatic or programmed mode also have [...]
#WEEKENDPHOTOFOCUS SUBMISSIONS: “Lichen my home” by anemms1. Other Links: How it works: Weekend Photo Find is a weekly series, each Friday we will post a Weekend Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #weekendphotofocus) on a certain subject, something to spark your creativity. An empty weekend for a photographer, is like an empty canvas, we could always use [...]
Trees have always been a popular subject of photography although most times a difficult and unwilling subject. When it goes right, however, amazing photographs happen. This weekends focus, therefore, is trees. Each Friday we will post a Weekend Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #weekendphotofocus) on a certain subject, something to spark your creativity. [...]
You may ask yourself, ‘Am I right? Am I wrong?’ You may say to yourself, ‘My God! What have I done?!’ – Talking Heads, “Once In A Lifetime” You ever get one of those moments when you’re looking for a sign to figure out what to do next, and then it hits you? Well, I had a [...]
Each month, we’ll highlight one indie photographer whose body of work deserves special recognition. Please enjoy their photography here, and make it a point to enjoy the rest of their work on their website. This month we’re featuring Cheridan Chard. We were especially attracted to Cheridan’s eye for bold geometry and gorgeous colors. Her style is [...]
On an average day in 1934 a young man walks through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Mexico City, with a small indiscreet camera slung around his neck. The street is Calle Cuauhtemoctzin. The man stops at seeing two women, prostitutes, sticking their head out in curiosity, or boredom, from a frame-‐like opening of a [...]
After winning last months competition we asked our frequent photo focus contributor Rich Maus to help us out with this months competition. How To Enter: Submit: into our Fuel Flickr Pool, link in the bottom of this post, or tweet us. Just use the tag #FYPcontest (see submission guidelines below for further details) Deadline for Submissions: August 29, [...]
In last month’s column I talked about the art of photography as painting. This month I’d like to explore it in relation to another art form: sculpture. Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” I like thinking of photography in this [...]
Last month we decided to mix it up a little bit and introduce something new to the site, our first regular monthly contest. The winner would receive a Lens Baby Composer – Nikon F mount and Runner-up would receive a Wiley Lightroom 2 Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process Sunrise. Sunset. A Case of the Diptych We wanted [...]
Ten years ago I had no interest in photography. Delving into it on any level was either a clunky or an expensive situation. I had no interest in taking the time out of my day to learn my way around a darkroom or the proper techniques. As for digital. Well digital was a joke back [...]
Weekend Photo Find: Symmetry. #WEEKENDPHOTOFOCUS SUBMISSIONS: Other Links: How it works: Weekend Photo Find is a weekly series, each Friday we will post a Weekend Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #weekendphotofocus) on a certain subject, something to spark your creativity. An empty weekend for a photographer, is like an empty canvas, we could always use something [...]
The sky outside darkens to a deep blue-black or the hazy dark orange of a warm, cloudy night. Drowsy children are tucked into their warm, cozy beds and the adults and teenagers add that last accessory to their outfit, ready for a wild night out. Half the world sleep, and the other half bustle about [...]
This weekend’s focus: Perfectly Symmetrical. Symmetry can be found all around us at all times; it can be fleetingly noticed in man-made architecture, or gazed at with wonder in nature, upon the wings of a butterfly. Noticed or not, symmetry can and is used as a subject in photography often as it can create beautiful and incredicle [...]
One of my fondest childhood memories is the field trip. Not only did you get out of classes for the day, but nine out of ten times the destination was an interesting one. This month I invite you to take a field trip with me into the world of Black & White HDR photography. Are you [...]
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