I’ve had the D850 for a year now and finally got to play with a feature I knew the camera had but had never used…the WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Up to this point, I hadn’t needed to mess with that built-in networking functionality because the workflow to get the images off the camera’s memory card […]
Photography Tips
“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
Sir Winston Churchill
You will find in these posts all of the tips and tricks for photography that I’ve learnt over the past few years with a photo gallery to show you some examples to help jump-start your creative juices.
Some of these come from many conversations where someone is looking at a photograph I’m particularly proud of and then they are shocked that it actually turned out to be trivially simple and something they can do without investing a metric tonne of money in kit.
Take getting a lovely shot of a lightning bolt. The simple truth that it’s a matter of sticking the camera on a tripod, adding a manual shutter release with the camera shutter speed set to “BULB” mode, and then opening the shutter waiting for the lightning bolt to appear. When you see the bolt, release the shutter!
Other than a couple of settings for the lens and the camera, it really is that simple. The hard part is getting the storm to cooperate and fling lightning bolts in your general direction!
I love photography! I always have. Part of that is being hopelessly unable to draw recognisable pictures worth a darn and my poetry royally sucks. But there has always been this compulsion to be creative and when I found a camera allowed a monkey like me to find and touch art…I was hooked!
Perhaps when you see the magic behind the smoke and mirrors, you’ll find inspiration as well and be moved to create art that touches your heart. :)
From the “It’s Not Fortitude’s Mess” Dept:
These lovely leaves might well have led you to think of Fortitude doing a big dump of red leaves to the deck but this was actually outside of the Eastern Wake Regional Centre near Zebulon. After getting the booster jab, it was a very welcome sight indeed to see such a beautiful explosion of colour […]
From the “And Here’s The Payoff Pitch…” Dept:
Today’s gallery is exactly why I love shooting in the autumn and as much as I love those two Japanese Maples in front of the house, Fortitude’s colouration will easily be my favourite. Only five days after the previous set of shots and Fortitude is in full-on red colour saturation. These were taken just before […]
From the “Timing Is Everything” Dept:
The first set of photos were shot after collecting Katie and Alex in Clayton for the morning commute to school. I was loving how the fog was playing in the fields. Unfortunately, this is an example of just how quickly the light can change when you’re shooting shots like this. Right before getting to Julia’s […]
From the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Dept:
When it comes to full-on obnoxious colour saturation, no season comes close to the autumn for colour that practically explodes off the frame. These pictures were taken in the afternoon after collecting Katie and Alex from school. The first set of the trees at the intersection of New Hope and Rogers Lane shows just how […]
From the “Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut” Dept:
Everyone has “squirrel moments”, right? In this case, it was a real life “Mr Nutterbutter” who thought they could evade the reach of the camera lens on the iPhone to nick a nut. Oh, you silly squirrel! 🙂 There’s hardly a place on Earth where you won’t find at least one camera lens pointed at […]