Month: February 2011

Today it is Valentine’s Day, a great opportunity to photograph flowers. Buy your loved-one some flowers and before you give them to her/him, photograph them. What a great exercise for this week!

I bought 12 roses and a friend of mine created a wonderful arrangement. I decided to start out with one rose. In order to add a nice touch to the photograph I used my sprayer to create some mist. I used one strobe light from the left, the light softened by an umbrella, and a fill in reflector on the right side.

One more tip: If you use Photoshop, duplicate the original image. Use “Gaussian” blur on the the duplicate layer to blur the image at a radius around “4 pixels” and the use “overlay” to create your image.

As always: Have fun with this exercise!

This is also an image I took at the ocean. There is no clear subject and the eyes just wander around looking for something interesting.

Good to have you on board and I hope my photographic exercises help you to grow in your photography.

Happy Friday

These flowers can serve as a perfect background. I used the “Glass” filter in Photoshop and got the following image.

After the big rain storms in December 2010 the soil is beginning to dry out creating beautiful opportunities for photography.Enjoy and happy photographing!

I photographed dead tree trunk. I extracted one corner of an image and created in post production this background. Enjoy and happy photographing!

Several of my photography teachers pointed out the importance of the background of an image. One even said that he starts out considering the background before he looks at the subject of an image. A background image is defined as an image without a clear subject. This week photograph backgrounds. You can look at texture, color, blurr images etc.

I photographed this background at the beach. It is blurred water. Enjoy this exercise and start collecting a background file folder. Background images can become very handy from time to time.As always, enjoy this exercise!

In order to get this image I used the light as my background. I basically got a “shadow” image of the slinky which portraits the form.

Enjoy and happy Friday!

I used a string to lift the slinky up and photographed it while it was slowly turning in the air. I stopped my lens down to f22 giving me an exposure time of 30 seconds at ISO 100. During the exposure time I discharged a small flash three times freezing the slinky at three different positions.

Enjoy and be creative with your camera!

To create this image I had to overexpose. Compare the light with the images from Tuesday’s and Monday’s pictures. It has again a different quality.

Enjoy and have fun photographing!

In this images I used a harsh light source coming from the lower right corner. The light source creates a nice shadow. Try to play with the light source. Just by changing the light you will get several great images that all have a different feeling to them. By the way: I believe a master in the field of photography is someone who can create (and maybe control) different kind of feelings associated with the same subject!

Enjoy and happy photographing!