We’re celebrating in our household; the kids have just finished a particularly arduous end to the semester. So arduous that guitar time was restricted to prevent diversion from the tasks assigned, if you know what I’m saying. That behind us, it was time to pick up the music once again. Here my son demonstrates some […]
I don’t expect to win any composition awards with this photograph. What was I trying to capture was the pleasing warm light on the white bark on this plane tree (an ornamental in the same family as the American Sycamore.) I saw this light was I was leaving work. I did not have time to […]
Artistically, this was a bit of serendipity. It was late, I had not taken my One Picture a Day yet. I went to my new “assistant,” a strong LED flashlight and the dark room. Not the darkroom, where film is printed, but a room with the lights out where we take photographs with single light […]
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 […]
Curious things we collect. Here’s a jumble of obsolete typography printing letters. They have a name, can’t think of it right now. These were retrieved from a purge of these things at a high school in the 1990s. We have a printer’s drawer the would have held these, too. Amazing how something that was the […]
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 […]
This “abandoned” helmet wasn’t so abandoned. I found it hanging in a mostly abandoned barn. Whatever the helmet was used to ride on was no longer present. However, something had made good use of it. I do not know for sure who the new tenant was. The Carolina Wren is known for creative nesting locations, […]
We play around with “rainbows” for our One Picture a Day today. This spectrum was cast on the living room wall by sunlight coming through the beveled edges of decorative glass in our front door. These delightful sprites appear on sunny afternoons in our living room. On the wall and for the original image, the center […]
We could not make it outside to photograph today, with drab, wet weather. Normally, we’d probably just not get the camera out. But with our One Picture a Day project on the line, we got out the camera anyway. We headed into the studio. By studio, I mean a light box on the kitchen table. […]