After spending almost a week not doing much on my project, I did make a little progress this week. For full disclosure, I have taken almost 1800 photos at this point in my summer, but I am I trying to take 1000 photos that say something, that make a viewer take more than a glance. But as the headline says, I have 150 I consider worthy, only 850 to go.
Sometimes when shooting, I am lost in the moment. I don’t check the back of the camera to see how the shots look. Yesterday was one of those moments. I was trying to so hard to be in the moment and listen to the singer, an uber talented student of mine, yet I was trying to capture good images. After graduation, I went to my classroom to start downloading images and found these two shots that I love. I love…
Killing two birds with one stone, I had lunch in downtown New Albany and worked on my summer project. I knew that New Albany had a stage on the river but had not been down there. I headed there on a hot, humid overcast day. After editing, I kept about 15 photos from the day and these are my three favorites.
Each summer I commit to a project. Last summer I decided to instagram every day of summer, not because I am egotistical and believe that people are clamoring to know my every move but because I wanted to hold myself accountable for how I was spending my precious few days of summer. I succeeded in meeting my goal and fully completing the project. This summer I decided on a project a bit more ambitious. We have all heard the old…
Everyone likes new toys, I am no exception. For quite some time, I have wanted a small aperture (f2.8) lens. I love shooting with them because the large opening gives the photos very shallow depth of field. Shallow depth of field makes the background blurry which helps when you know you’re going to have a background which you can’t control such as a crowd at a sporting event. One of these lenses is well over $1000 new and I just…
