CHALLENGE, a Picture is worth a Thousand words....

Ok... so here is my Challenge... the Tire photo.... I don't know, I think that one could write innumerous stories about that.... here it is again......



I got a spare



Here is one more from my iphone that I didn't think was worth publishing....



one of the best iphone pics i ever got!



It is kinda like the .... wow factor....  I really wish I had my real camera at that time....

So my Challenge is to come up with a short story that applies to one or the other....

I just take the pictures... you do the rest....

I will not share any of your information.... with anyone without your permission unless specificly asked to.

I think that a lot of people would be interested in a short story!

Okay one of three... explain this one.............



How did this person get their license???  Did they actually scare the hell out of their instructor?

I waited around to quiz the person driving, and a young man said he was "Just in a hurry".

Wow...

Pictures are worth a thousand words... Art is ....mesmerizing.... stupidity is just plain.......... stupidity! and that's all I have to say for the day (Sorry refering to the photo of the parking job)

Lol... have a nice day all..... I will begin again soon!

Digital Photography, Take the darn Photo!

So, for a number years now, people have been telling me I should sell my photos. They tell me all the time, "You have an eye for photography.. And everyone loves your photographs".

Truth be told, I have sold some of my pictures, not huge money though, but enough to pay for my film, developing, and printing. (This was in my Olympus Om2n days).... Might just have to reignite that camera and those days!

Digital days Today.

Unison, Inside passage

I've always been afraid of people taking my photographs for themselves, or actually saying that these are their own pictures, when, I actually took the darn thing. Why do you do that?  Give credit where credit is due!

This is the part of the reason why I try not to publish my photos at full resolution. Some photos I don't mind, but some I feel, should be held close to the chest.  Here is one of my pics from my iphone published at full res.  If you click on the photo you will get the full picture.  Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time.  And you have to take the image for what it's worth!  More than a thousand words!  I whitened out the license plate just in case.  This is one time that I just can't resist any comment.  Just use your imagination.  I pulled up beside that vehicle and asked them if I could borrow their spare.  The gentlemen laughed.





 

Have I got a spare for you!  Not one of those Mickey Mouse, small useless, pieces of crap... but a Full size tire!  Wish we all had a real spare... hmmm Lol...  I'll bet one might go more than 50 km on that one....

Well no one can deny this is my photo.  Surprisingly it's from my iphone, but that is all I had at the time.  It was a picture that had to be taken.  I thought of many Stories about that one... and I would love to hear yours.

My Next Blog.... A Challenge....... T.B.C.

to be continued..........

Sometimes it's all in the moment.  If you have a great camera with you, hopefully you have the right lens and the right settings, but if all else fails........ take the the fricken picture with whatever you have!

Capture the Dragon Fly, Canon 70-200mm L glass

So, yes, I wish that I had a tripod set up and could move it to wherever I wanted to in nanoseconds!  But I havent' been able to yet.  Shame on me.  Using a tripod will help you with those settings, where you don't have time constraints.  Take that Darn Photo is my motto when it comes to digital photography.  So you don't like the pic, well then, hit that delete button.  How hard was that.



Using the Canon 70-200mm, I have taken numerous photographs that I am very happy with.  I did get caught off guard though when I had a Dragon Fly doing circuits around me.  If there are any pilots reading this, they will know what circuits are, and for those who aren't and don't know it essentially means, doing circles around a airport.  The people flying the airplanes are practicing takeoffs and landings, using radio communications, and fitting into slots where they can practice their piloting skills.



Well here, I had a Dragon Fly, that was doing "Circuits" around me.  Like, I was the Airport.  Where was my camera?  ( I had of course put it away in my knapsack and never thought that I would use it again that day. )


So here for example is the reason I have the motto, "TAKE THE DARN PHOTO!", and then,

TAKE SOME MORE!

Bad photo.... the reason I take more!!!

So I guess that I have more than one motto.  I am going to have to say that this is, take the photo, click that button, and then keep clicking it!  The worst that will happen, would be that you have to hit the delete button more than once!

Oww, that really hurt.

I have to say that you must download all your photographs before you delete them, just because you never know.

The above photo is one that I wanted to delete.  Then I started this Blog and I thought that it might be useful as a example.


Using the Canon 70-200mm non image stabilized made me have to think.  It wasn't the image stabilization so to speak, as to the auto focus of the camera.  The Dragon Fly kept on going around and around.

I finally found the auto focus turnoff switch, and then used the manual focus to zero in on the Dragon Fly.  This is what I got...

Apparently the Dragon Flies like to hover, and explore some of the same areas.  This did allow me to get my camera out of the knapsack, and figure out how to turn the auto focus off! This is how I captured the Dragon Fly!  The auto focus wanted to continuously get the background and not the Dragon Fly.  By turning it off allows me to use manual focus and concentrate on the subject at hand.



Here is another...

Keep on clicking that photograph button.  You will never know what you have until you get home and put it onto your computer.  Don't ever give up!

So in order to take some of the pictures that you want, you may have to turn the auto functions off on your camera.

Don't be afraid to hit that button.  Take the photo's and then download them.  The absolute worst thing that could happen, is that you may have to delete a few, and that might really hurt.  LOL!



Next Blog.... hmmmm.....  Whales??

How To Take Excellent Digital Photo's

I am sure that we are all aware of the days when one had to purchase film, take some photo's, and then go to the local photo mart and have their pictures developed.  Wait some time, and then pay a sum, only to find out that they only got 1 or 2 really good pictures.  Don't get me wrong I still love my Olympus OM2N, but the waiting for the developing kills me.

Digital, versus film, is a argument that I don't think we want to discuss here.  I was a skeptic at one time, to think that digital was inferior, and now I guess, that I am a total convert.

• How do you take Excellent Photo's be it film or not?

This question really depends on your Subject matter, and how you set up your photo. Always try and set up your picture prior to taking it.  Imagine and look at what you want to see in a picture.  They have the rule of thirds when taking pictures, essentially splitting your subject into 3 equal, even areas, foreground (Bottom), mid ground, and background (Top).  In other words, frame your picture before you take it.  This usually works if your subject happens to be a landscape or a portrait, something that you don't have time constraints for.  I have always liked the larger image that was developed by film cameras, called full frame.  If you ever noticed, some of the photo's you took with film may not have had all the subject matter in the picture you recieved, especially if you ordered 4x6 pictures.  Some of your subject may have been chopped off.  If you had requested the 5x7, they would have been published with almost all of your subject matter there.

I am a aspiring photographer.  I love to take picures.  The more that I take, the more will turn out and bring enjoyment to all.  So, my next answer to that question.

If you have a     digital camera,



don't hesitate to



click that button!





Honestly all, the more pictures that you take, the more that you will be happy with.  This is probably one of the best pieces of advice I could give you.  TAKE THE DARN PHOTO!

Don't worry if it's not perfect.  Take another!  Change the settings, play with them.  Learn your equipment.  Buy your children a inexpensive camera and let them play with it!

Until next time, please remember that I hold the copyright to all my photo's and if you would like to use them for a project please ask.  This is why I do publish some of them in a smaller size.  If you would like to see them in full then contact me.  Feel free to comment.  All comments, good or bad would be appreciated!


My next Blog will be about, How I caught the Dragon Fly!

If anyone could tell me what the birds are in the pictures above, please leave a message.