David’s Blog
Golden Oldies
You all are going to have to suffer through a visual trip down memory lane for a few posts. I am just about done going through my 100,ooo slides I had in my office and in the process of doing so I found some images that I hadn't seen in a long, long time. The first ones I am going to show were taken with a Pentax 6x7 that I owned for a few years in the...
Maine in December
We went to a couple lighthouses and harbors on the near coast and while the photos weren’t what we wanted they were still the best shots either one of us have of the lighthouses.
just a little note
I have added two new paragraphs to the bottom of the Portraits post above to provide details on the technical side of portrait photography.
The Secrets to taking Magnificent Portraits
I have been thinking about the portraits I have photographed lately…portraits of people that is. inally it dawned on me that the lens and light and technical aspects of my portrait photography weren’t nearly as important as the approach I took. And I mean that quite literally. My approach- how I presented myself and how I came up to the person (the angle I took)- in large part determined how successful I would be taking the pictures.
Just some thoughts
The workshop season is over once again- my 25th!- and I thought I would share some end of season lessons that seem to always come up on every workshop.
My 2011 Schedule
Here is my tentative schedule for 2011. I am pretty sure the dates are good but I still finalizing some of the arrangements so I don’t want to put it in stone quite yet. There is also a good possibility that I will add a few more workshops. I will put more information about each of these workshops and lots of pictures on my website soon.
Death Valley report
Last week I was in Death Valley National Park doing a workshop with my friend and digital guru, Scott Rouse. We had a great group of people and really nice weather and based on the pictures Scott and I saw during the critiques, our participants got some really nice shots. This is the first time in Death Valley that I felt really comfortable in the park,...
More on High ISO Photography
If I need high shutter speeds and depth of field…lobster activity at a dock at dawn or dusk or an action shot in the barn when it is still dark outside…I will push the ISO to 3200 or even 6400. And why not? Sure the picture quality would be better if I shot at much lower ISOs but isn’t it better to get a shot you can still use than to get no shot?
Astonishing Quality High ISO
12,800 ISO! Really? High quality images? Can’t be! Now I have just finished a book on the men and women who lobster in the Gulf of Maine. I have a new Nikon D3s and I am shooting regularly at ISO 3200 and ISO 6400. No, really! And when I am pressed I will happily go to ISO 12,800!
The Fall color season in New England
Its been a funny year for fall color here in New England. We had unusually early red color in mid to late September that all fell to the ground the first few days of October with torrential rains. Then after lots of muddy yellows during the traditional peak (10/10-14) the color blossomed again in mid-October and stayed strong until the end of the third...
The more you look the more you see
As with anything, time and patience lead to good things. The catch is that we often don’t take the time nor have the patience to find out. We are all fast moving cream-skimmers whether we are on vacation or at work or at home. We do what we need to do at the moment or what we think we need to do for the next moment but we don’t sit back and wait for the moment unannounced.