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Shutter Speed and Creativity
Often times when we think of creativity and photography, the cameras shutter speed is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe it should. To me, photography is all about capturing a moment in time, about grabbing onto a feeling and recording it forever. Many of the moments that we wish to record…
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Aperture and Creativity
In our last discussion we talked about the physical settings (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) that went into creating our one ideal exposure for a given scene. Hopefully you did the exercises and are now comfortable with changing your cameras settings, and have wrapped your mind around the relationship that exists between the 3 settings.…
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Exposure Explained
Recently a friend asked me why anyone would want to use a camera in Manual mode, when the camera takes great pictures in Automatic mode? While I could not disagree that the camera can take a great picture in Automatic mode, I answered that in manual mode the camera was taking the picture that I…
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What type of photography do I enjoy creating?
Someone recently asked me “What type of photography do you like to do?”. In all honesty, I had never really though of myself as a photographer that had a “type”. I simply use my camera to try and get what I feel to come across in my photos. There are so many different types of…
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Photo galleries have been added to the site
Today has been a very exciting day, so I will keep this short and sweet, so that you can get to looking at some pictures! I have finally added a portfolio section to my site, to show some of the landscape, portrait and still life work that I have done! After all, the whole reason…