Photography, Science
By the time the moon rose over the Eastern Seaboard, it was emerging from totality. I set up the Celestron C90 with my Nikon and snapped a few shots as it came up.
Category: Photography
Local, Photography, Travel
While growing up, my father would often load our large family into the car and go on a drive. These drives would often involve dirt roads and somewhere along the way, a rickety wooden bridge. We explored just about every road we could in Laurens County, sometimes extending to the surrounding counties. I think it … Read More “Roaming to Aiken” »
Geocaching and Maps, Photography
What’s wrong with this picture? This Google Earth capture is an example of very poor geotagging etiquette. First, the number of images tagged to this specific location is almost unmanageble. Granted, I’m zoomed out quite a bit, but if one zooms in closer, the situation does not improve. All of these images are tagged to … Read More “Geotagging Etiquette” »
Geocaching and Maps, Internet, Photography, Travel
Anyone who has been following this blog knows that one of my favorite past times is to head out into the country with my camera and just explore. I enjoy not just the exploration, but the documentation of exploration, either by writing about it here, keeping a GPS track, or by geotagging the photos I … Read More “Geotagging Made Simple” »
Photography, Uncategorized
Today was the last session of my Portraiture class at the Museum of Art. Each our classmates presented their work from last week’s photosession, and we made comments. We have some excellent photographers in this group, and I was quite impressed with some of the images. Even though each of us was shooting the same … Read More “Portraiture, Part 3” »
Photography
Tonight I had planned to attend the monthly meeting of the Exposures group. This is a group of photographers that meets at the West End Dark Room the first Thursday of the month. According to the website, the group often picks a theme, and people bring either slides, digital images, or large prints of photos … Read More “Under Exposure” »
Photography, Uncategorized
Yep, that’s OOBs – not OOPS!, or worse yet, BOOBS!. It stands for Out of Boundary, and is a photomanipulation technique that creates three-dimensional effect. A frame is created around part of the photo, then part of the image appears to break out of that frame. Creative use of a Gaussian Blur for shadow and … Read More “OOBs!” »
Photography
This morning was the second session of our portraiture class at the Greenville Museum of Art. Today we were to spend the day posing and working with our model, Christy. Since it was incredibly cold outside, we started in the studio, with Polly discussing and demonstrating various posing techniques and lighting. Polly drove home several … Read More “Portraiture Class, Part 2” »
Photography
I knew there would be fog. The temperatures were high enough for yesterday’s snow to sublime away, leaving a heavy mist in its place. We had a two-hour delay for school this morning, just on the off-chance that icy patches still remained. It was as good an opportunity as I was going to get for … Read More “Foggy Delay” »
Photography
Our big guy was lurking in our pond as the afternoon light was hitting. I took this shot with the Celestron C-90 and Nikon D50. The setup is shown below: