Posts Tagged “Craft”
When shooting hand-held, camera shake is your enemy. You should always be conscious of how stable and firm you’re able to keep the camera. Look for ways to keep your camera as still as you possibly can. Support the camera/lens with your left hand underneath, palm up, rather than from the side. If you’re sitting,…
Today, I present a lesson. I can’t call it a lesson learned, because I’m still learning it. The lesson is: pay attention to your aperture, and choose it wisely. On this particular day, I forgot about that, and I’m still kicking myself over it. I was on a vacation, staying on the coast of Maine….
One day this summer I got up well before dawn, to load gear into the car and drive down to a favorite location in the Killbuck Marsh area, some twenty miles south. I parked the car just off the side of the dirt road, strapped gear onto my back, and headed into a field of…
I began working my way into photography as a hobby fairly late in life. Oh, I had a definite interest much earlier, but didn’t do much about it, for any number of reasons. Back in the days of film photography, getting seriously into it took some pretty serious financial commitment; I was deeply involved in…