If you've ever reached into your pocket or your camera bag for a fresh battery and wondered if the one you retrieved was a fully charged battery or maybe the spent battery you squirreled away a short while ago, you'll like this. I'm just the messenger here. Fred Tullock, who along with wife Jan was one of the participants in my Letchworth Photo tour a couple weeks back, is an engineer whose professional skills show up in some unexpected places...at least unexpected to most of us.
This is one such instance. Something simple, like our camera batteries, often stymie most of us. Others, like...
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It's been quite awhile since my last post, too long actually. It's not because there's been nothing to write about. Rather it's more due to the press of too many things on my plate. I'm trying to rectify that situation.
That said, at last weekend's Lilac Festival in Rochester, NY, I promised several visitors to our exhibit that I'd post the answer to a question I had posed at our booth. So, here goes.
In a nutshell, during the Lilac Festival I displayed the image seen here, inviting visitors to identify where it was, in exchange for the opportunity to win one of the 20 x 30" Endura metallic...
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I always find it interesting to see how two photographers (or three or four or more) show up at the same venue (Bullshead Point Pier in Fulton, NY in this case), use similar equipment (Nikon D-300 cameras and similar lenses this time) yet leave with significantly
different images. In this case we (my friend Chuck and I) even approached our subject from the same perspective initially. I liked the peaked roof with half-moon openings framing the pier's gazebo. Chuck wasn't impressed.
I framed all the pier lamp posts in a single horizontal image, then in an image utilizing the pier railing...
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Brilliant blue skies, bright warm sun, a gentle breeze which sometimes decides to become a hefty wind, and a threatening spring (the calendar says it's spring but the trees are only just beginning to show their colors and most of the forest wildflowers have yet to make an appearance) – so what's to complain about?
As we left my driveway in the dark yesterday morning it had just stopped raining and we were grateful for that. We were headed to Letchworth State Park, two and a half hours to our west. The weather forecast emphasized a couple sessions of rain broken-up by some sun. It looked...
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This is not going to be a definitive treatment of the pros and cons of HDR versus in-camera capture. Rather, I hope it will serve as a first step in a discussion that involves more than just my thoughts on the subject.
Let me say first, that I generally want to use the technology we call HDR (High Dynamic Range) in situations where the light is either too high contrast to capture in a single image or too flat to render an interesting image. Since I prefer final results that are as "realistic" as possible, the images we often see that are extremely vibrant and even course (or worse) don't typically...
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