Today’s One Picture a Day is simply a portrait of a workhorse lens for the amateur photographer. That workhorse is the Nikon 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX Nikkor. I’ve praised it many times in this blog. It’s a kit lens, it’s cheap, it’s plastic, but it’s good. I’ll let the other posts I have made […]
A spotlight shines on piano keys. The spotlight here is an LED flashlight. I’ve had a lot of fun with this flashlight. The light is a very clean white light. It is strong enough that I can handhold the camera at reasonable ISO. Here the ISO is 1600, 1/160 sec, f/6.3. I could take the […]
Today I photographed the mill at McConnells Mill State Park. I will have more pictures in another post soon. In this post, we take the same view, but use four different photographic methods: traditional, HDR, false-color infrared, and black and white infrared. All images were taken with a Nikon 18-55mm AF-S DX VR lens, at […]
Happy Birthday, Ansel Adams! In tribute to Adams’ birthday today, I went outside to photograph in black and white. I did not have any dramatic landscapes handy, so I decided to channel something like Young Oaks in Winter. I at least had some winter to work with, even if I did not have the Yosemite […]
I admit I’ve pretty much got nothing here. It just was not a good day to concentrate on a photograph. The weather was awful. I had very little time at home for inside photography. Time was running out on the One Picture a Day personal challenge. I did try, however. As I was running to […]
Artful dodging is behind these tree roots. I saw these roots today, and thought them worthy of a photograph. In post-processing, I went straight to black and white because I thought it suited the texture of the wood. The winter day was already naturally rather desaturated. I found the background to be too obtrusive, however. […]
Surface of a distant moon, or a common food item? You be the judge! A bellows and some side-lighting makes the cracker surface look like an alien landscape strewn with crystal boulders. I am enjoying the side lighting technique here. The standard macro technique is full-frontal lighting. I don’t have a ring flash, so full-frontal lighting […]
Back to black and white with this winter scene. We continue to explore post-processing to black and white. We photograph in RAW. In Aperture, we desaturate. The in the Curves brick, we pull the red curve north, the blue curve south. We desaturate again, using the Saturation brush applied to the entire photograph. Then we play […]
Black and white gurus on the net say that grey days are good days for black and white photography. The even light is good for capturing textures, dimensions, shapes and shades of grey. So, that’s what I did for today’s One Picture a Day. What could be better for exploring shades of grey than a […]
We ventured into a winter landscape for some black and white photography in today’s One Picture a Day. Actually, we have several pictures this time. I have not paid much attention to black and white for years. I took a course in photography years ago, and shot a good bit of black and white for […]