Tag: travel
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Is It Art?
Another FaceBook inspired post. Today a young photographer was bemoaning his photography which he didn’t think compared to the photography of any of the great photographers of the past. A lot of well-meaning comments were directed towards his style of shooting and the equipment he might consider. Some suggested a better grounding in the “rules”…
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You Need Lessons!
I was a self-taught photographer….and it showed. I started my career freelancing…a euphemism for being unemployed….back in the early 1970s. When I got my first full-time newspaper job I didn’t even know how or when to bounce a flash (a basic news photographer’s trick). So when I retired after nearly 60 years of professional shooting…
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So How Evil Is FB?
It’s worse than you might think! We’re talking specifically FaceBook photography sites. These are the free sites that individuals setup and then as they are the “administrators” they then rule hopefully with a benevolent hand. But as these self-appointed administrators set the rules, they also dictate the ethics and morales and general deportment of their…
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What FB Gets Wrong
Photo by Marion West You see it everyday on FaceBook. Somebody, usually somebody new to photography, asks “what or what settings did you use to get that photo?” What they should have asked was “how did you see that photo!” Asking what settings or what camera tells you nothing about how the photographer saw the…
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Can My Camera Shoot Landscapes?
This was an actual question on a FaceBook photo site I was on this morning. And, of course, the answer is any camera (and any lens for that matter) can be used to shoot landscapes. In experienced hands you can get a landscape out of a pinhole camera. So it’s not the camera but the…
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Wedding Photography
What do you need to be a wedding photographer? First you need to understand that wedding photography is a business first and an art form second. How so, you might ask? Look at it this way. Let’s pretend that you’re selling your wedding photography services for $2,000 a day. That’s a lot of money for…
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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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Automatic Mode
Photo by Marion West So you got a new camera. Congratulations! Maybe it’s one of the newer complex mirrorless camera or a simple point-and-shoot but all digital cameras whether complex or simple have an automatic mode. Should you shoot in automatic mode? Professional photographers won’t admit to shooting on auto mode but there are times…
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