Passion for Photos

Toilet paper definitely does not belong into a dishwasher. that is exactly why I put it there to create this composition.

Have fun, be creative and photograph!

This week I ask you to take a roll of toilet paper with you wherever you go to photograph. After you have photographed your subject take another shot after you placed the toilet paper somewhere into the frame. Of course you can start right away with the toilet paper inside the composition. It really get’s great when you create photograph with toilet paper at locations where people don’t expect to find it.

Normally you don’t see tomatoes and toilet paper together. I picked a black background to enhance the contrast.

Enjoy, have fun with this exercise and be creative!

In this image I also wanted a shallow depth of field. Therefor I used an aperture setting of f2.8. Watch where your eyes go automatically and how you can create attention to your focal point.

Happy week-end and keep on photographing!

In this image I used f22 to get as much depth of fiels as possible. In post production I used NIK Silver Efix pro to creates this look.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

This is another example of photographing with a wide open lens. I manually focused on the lower left corner to get just part of the shoe string in focus.

Enjoy and happy photographing! 

These shoes were made for a shallow depth of field. Again I used my 85mm portrait lens at f 1.8. By the way the light in the late afternoon was so beautiful that I did not have to use neither a strobe light nor a reflector.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Photographing shoes are probably one of the oldest exercises in photography. It is definitely a challenge and I thought we should do it this week.

I photographed these shoes using my 85mm portrait lens. I used several f-stops and decided on f2.8. This setting provides enough depth of field for the dark female boots and throws the rest out of focus.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I liked the reflection in this window. Study the lines in this image and how they affect the viewer.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

I photographed this window early in the morning just using natural light. I did several exposures either to light the curtains or furniture or window. I finally ended up using Photomatix to create an HDR image.

Enjoy and keep on trying!

The reflection in this window caught my attention. I am sure you noticed that the flower was twice reflected in this old window glass. By the way, I photographed this image in Nevada city, CA , an old gold mining town. My family saw a play in on of the oldest theaters in California and I had all the time in the world to photograph.

Enjoy and happy photographing!