About The Photograph – Separation On The Red Line
As I was riding the Metro, I observed the scene and started thinking about how we often share the same space but remain separate.
Winter Greetings and About The Photograph.
December 23, 2007. Pin Oak Leaf In Snow. Near East Bangor, Pennsylvania. Buy A Print License This Image WISHING YOU PEACE AND HAPPINESS ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH TECHNICAL COMPOSITIONAL While I was walking somewhere near East Bangor, PA. I saw leaves scattered in the snow on the ground. The snow had seemed to melt around the [...]
Mixing Light Sources and Scheming In Color
The above photograph was created when I first began working with flash on a regular basis and was made as an exploration of using multiple light sources and color temperatures. The bright pink pants of the skater caught my attention. I was using a daylight balanced color slide film and I understood that the fluorescent [...]
Seeing, Feeling And Composition.
While returning from a class one evening in Manhattan I was walking thorough a scene that I’ve thoughtlessly passed by many times before, a musician in the subway. Since a musician in the subway was such a regular occurrence and I’ve seen many photographs made by other photographers of similar scenes, I thought the picture [...]
About The Photograph – The Importance of Metering and “Correct” Exposure
Buy This Print - License This Image “One of the greatest difficulties the photographer, and especially the amateur has to encounter, lies in correctly estimating his exposure.” – Vero Charles Driffield During my Introduction to Photography classes and my Metering and Exposure Classes I stress that the exposure setting that our camera provides us with is merely [...]
About The Photograph-Pattern And Tones.
TECHNICAL COMPOSITIONAL I think this is a perfect visual for the saying “can’t see the forest for the trees”. The growth density of these trees was amazing as well as their nearly perfect verticality. The pattern and tone of the trees was the driving elements of composition. The trees which are off-vertical and the variance [...]
About The Photograph – Passing Time
TECHNICAL COMPOSITIONAL The above photograph was made one evening in a bar in the Mount Pleasant section of Washington DC. I rested the camera on the table where I was sitting and, using an exposure of f-4 at 25 seconds, created the photograph. Because of the contrasty lighting in the bar I had to make [...]
About The Photograph – The Sky Is Falling.
TECHNICAL COMPOSITIONAL Since I always have a camera with me, I could not help but react when the gentlemen in front of me raised his arm to shield himself from the sun’s glare. To me it seemed that he was protecting himself from the cloud directly above his head from hitting him. I metered off [...]