Nov 24, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Art, artistry, band, close up, day, detail, fine art, holding, horizontal, large, marching band, mid-section, music, musical instrument, musician, parade, Photograph, photographs, photography, r.m., rights managed, rights protected, rm, stock photography, stock photos, tuba, uniform, white, white gloves, yellow | Leave A Comment »
It seems that every time I get settled somewhere on the web, I learn of a new service being offered that comes closer to my “wish list” for my home on the internet. This latest incarnation of “websites hosted and designed for photographers” seems to be the closest to my dream home on the web that I’ve seen yet.
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: blog, Business Of Photography, e-commerce, Graph Paper Press, instruction, photographer, photographer websites, photography, photoshelter, Rights Managed Stock Photography, SEO, Visual Society, Word Press, workshops | Leave A Comment »
I think that if the photographers who favor summer began to notice the visual richness of fall and winter they would be carrying their cameras equally throughout the year.
Sep 22, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: autumn, back light, backlit, Color, color temperature, fall, fence, foliage, glow, leaf, maple leaf, Online Photography Classes, orange, Photograph, photographic prints, photography, Photography Classes, Photography Classes Washington DC, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography, stuck, trapped, vertical, wire fence, yellow | Leave A Comment »
The event that closed public access to the right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty is mostly overlooked in history classes and at the monument also.
Jul 28, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, Americana, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, day, daytime, democracy, detail, freedom, images, land, monument, National monument, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, rm, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, United States, United States of America, USA, vertical, vertical images | Leave A Comment »
Click on the photograph of Backyard Fireworks, Sewell NJ, July 2007.to see more information and a larger version.
Background Information:
While attending a party in the NJ suburb of Sewell, NJ fireworks were bring ignited in the backyard at around 5:00pm. The view of the fireworks during daytime, in an empty suburban backyard, struck me as surreal. Although [...]
Jul 17, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: backyard, celebrate, celebration, day, daylight, daytime, entertainment, environment, environmentalism, fence, fireworks, horizontal, images, land, lawn, nature, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, rm, scenery, stock photography, stock photos, suburban, suburban landscape, suburbia, suburbs, summer, trees Summer | Leave A Comment »
Click on the photograph of the Statue-Of-Liberty-Close-Up-Side-View to see more information and a larger version.
I know I’m a bit late on this story, but at least I made it before the actual opening. Better late than never. From a press release issued by the National Park Service on May 8, 2009
Jul 02, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: 4th. of July, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, democracy, detail, edifice, edifices, Fourth of July, freedom, Independence Day, July 4, land, monument, National monument, photography, photos, pics, prints, scenery, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, vertical | 1 Comment »
Fortunately for me, since I’m as much a wildlife photographer as I am a neurosurgeon, we can get some interesting wildlife photographs at some not so wild places.
Jun 30, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: animal, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes! exhibit, animals, Australian, Australian Freshwater Crocodile, Baltimore, creature, creatures, crocodile, Crocodilia, crocodilian, Crocodylidae, Crocodylus johnstoni, Fish crocodile, Freshie, freshwater, horizontal, image, images, Inner Harbor, Johnston's crocodile, Johnston's river crocodile, Maryland, National Aquarium, photo, Photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, reflection, reptile, Reptilia, rm, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, undomesticated animals, water, wildlife, zoology images | 1 Comment »
If I pass a store and it has an outdoor display on the sidewalk, I could take whatever is out there, right? After all, the display is on a public sidewalk, so whatever is in public and easy to take, is anyone’s property, yes ? Of course not.
Jun 29, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: A Photo Editor, Business Of Photography, copyright infringemnt, copyright issues, Flickr, home decorating, New York Times, NY Times, photography, Photography Classes, Photography Classes Washington DC, Sonia Zjawinski, stealing | 2 Comments »
The hypocrisy and greed of these corporations is astounding.
Jun 21, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: ABC, AMPTP, Art, artists, Ben Silverman, Bob Iger, Business, CBS, comedy, commerce, copyright, Daily Show, Disney, Fox, intellectual property, Les Moonves, NBC, photographer, photography, Rupert Murdoch, satire, Sumner Redstone, Viacom, WGA, writers strike | Leave A Comment »
Using my perception of “gloomy” to drive my composition, I chose a white balance of fluorescent to give the image a feeling of “the blues”.
Jun 18, 2009 | Categories: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, apartment building, apartment house, apartments, architectural, architecture, block of flats, Blue, blurred, blurred motion, blurry, building, cityscape, cold, coldness, Columbia Heights, concept, concepts, conceptual, coolness, District of Columbia, dominant color, dominant colour, ecology, ecosystem, edifice, edifices, emotion, emotional, emotions, environment, environmentalism, gloomy, home, horizontal, images, moody, North America, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, rain, rainfall, rainshower, rainstorm, rainy, real estate, residence, residential building, rm, seasons, shower, soft focus, stock photography, stock photos, structures, U.S., United States, United States of America, US, USA, Washington D.C., Washington DC, weather, Winter, wintertime | Leave A Comment »
The truth of the matter is that giving a useful critique on subjective matter, like someone else’s photography, requires a collaboration, or dialogue, between the one giving the critique and the one being critiqued.
May 11, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: Art, classes, critiques, instruction, online, opinion, Photographic Composition And Design, Photographic Composition And Design, photography | Leave A Comment »
In terms of the color temperature of the light source, it is what it is. Any color cast comes from the relationship between the White Balance setting (Kelvin/Color temperature) on your camera and the color temperature of the light source; Where do they lie in relationship to one another on the Kelvin scale?
Mar 23, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: Color, color cast, color temperature, Kelvin temperature, light, photography, Photography Classes, Photography Classes Washington DC, photography workshops, white balance | Leave A Comment »
Beyond adding more or less light, aperture is an important element in our compositions because it allows us to control something called depth of field.
Feb 27, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: aperture, Basic Photography, depth of field, f-stop, Introduction To Photography, lens, photography, Photography Classes Washington DC | Leave A Comment »
Facebook’s terms of use are still unreasonably greedy and as such I’m careful about what I’m willing to post there.
Feb 26, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: Business, Business Of Photography, copyright, Facebook, photography, Photography Classes Washington DC | Leave A Comment »
According to this quote by Claude Adams, luckily it’s not our camera. “Having a camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter.” – Claude Adams
Jan 26, 2009 | Categories: Photography Tips | Tags: Art, artist, camera, creativity, personal perception, photographer, Photographic Composition And Design, photography, vision | Leave A Comment »
