29. September 2010 by admin.

On my photographic exercise walk I discovered this mug on the old Jeep. The lines and the circle create a beautiful contrast; so does the old jeep in comparisson to the new mug.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

By the way, since I am actively looking for circles, I see them everywhere!

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28. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

On my exercise walk I discovered this pipe. While I was setting up my tripod and camera several people walked by and they were wondering “what the heck” I was photographing. I told them that I try to look for things that we normally overlook like this pipe.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

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27. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

The challenge for this week is to photograph images with circles in them. Use only full circles and as always: Have fun with this exercise!

A wagon week is an ideal for this exercise. I photographed this wheel last Saturday in Bodie, CA. There are more images from Bodie on our other blog. Go to www.photoblog.eye2eyephotostudio.com

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25. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

This is another rescue cat. She was the busiest of all cats that I photographed, constantly moving and exploring. I love looking at her eyes and I wonder how much joy and how much suffering they have seen. Having seen and photographed mall these cats created in me a feeling compassion for them. When you see an ally cat don’t be mean to her, don’t kick her, her life is most likely rough enough. I am an image maker and I learned that the images I make also make me.

Have a great week-end!

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23. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

I gave this image the title “trust!” This is a very young rescue cat that was abandoned and he is currently nursed back to health by one of my neighbors. We are in need of finding a good home for him. Since I started photographing animals and specifically cats I am sad how many of them went through a lot of suffering. I am shocked how cruel humans can be to animals and I am joyful having met people that care and give up sleep just to feed a little creature like this one every four hours a day.

Have a wonderful Thursday and happy photographing!

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22. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

Meet Daisy, one of our rescue cats. She is sitting on my wife’s shopping bag. I used a 50mm prime (fixed) lens and photographed her at f2.8, giving me a very shallow depth of field.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

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21. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

I fed this family of cats yesterday. I had only my point and shoot camera with me so the quality of the image is not the best, but I liked shooting the mother cat and her kittens from straight above. The sad thing is that their hunger was greater than their fear of humans. I wish I would find a good home for them. They are all adorable!

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20. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

This weeks exercise is about photographing domestic animals. You can pick your own pet or go out and find a cat in the ally or a stray dog. Animals move around so you need to be ready. Try to use some creative ideas. Go on the ground, use different angles etc. And as always, have fun with this exercise.

I had the pleasure to photograph this cat indoors. The light situation was not the best despite the fact that I used two photo umbrellas with continuous light. I had to crank up the ISO setting and photographed with my 85mm portrait lens pretty wide open which gave me a shallow depth of field. The camera was on the ground and I photographed upwards. Enjoy!

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17. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

I shot this image this evening. Being inside -looking outside can happen at any time of the day and the photographer has to understand the different kind of light source he/she has to deal with. The light on the inside is definitely different than the light outside. I believe it is of the utmost importance for every photographer to see these differences and to use different light in his/her composition.

Have fun!

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15. September 2010 by Friedhelm.

This image has a great feeling of depth. The door knob on the right through the door, along the pathway, the street and the house across the street are all elements of this deep 3D impression. I used a single raw photograph that I developed for the outside first and saved as a tif file. Then I used the same raw file that I developed for the inside of the house. The second image I put as a layer on top of the tif file and created and painted a mask that made the outside of the tif file (outside) visible.

Enjoy and try this easy to use technique.

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