This past January I went into DC to have a fun photo shoot with some friends. They had just moved to a new apartment and I suggested that we do a shoot together, because who doesn’t like new photos to decorate a new place.
Even though it was January, and we were about to have one of the worst snow storms in history, it was actually pretty mild out. Mild enough for Sola and Tegan to not have to sport giant winter coats.
Follow the jump for more photos from the day.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to fly most of the way down the coast at the crack of dawn? For the most part it’s not very fun because you’re up several hours before you want to be. Not only that, but you have to be functioning on top of that.
However, you’re in for a real treat when you get up above the clouds. Talk about a light show.
I had planned on sleeping on my flight to Atlanta before connecting to Tucson, but I had not idea what I was going to see out that little porthole.
Click the link below to view photos from the flight.
Gallery: DULLES TO HOTLANTA
Hi everyone.
This has been such a short week for me. Mainly it’s because I’m preparing to leave for Arizona in a day. Hopefully I’ll still be able to put up a post or two while I’m out there, though.
With that said, I figured you would get more out of me finding some relevant tutorials than you would if I were to write another post about how tired I am.
Thankfully, for both of us, I was able to find a couple of them that illustrate what I’ve been talking about in my recent posts of using off camera flash and action photography pretty well.
Action photography. It doesn’t have to be limited to sports photos. It can be of you and your friends running through a field while goofing off. It can be a photo of a train rolling through a station. It can be a photo of your dog chasing a squirrel or cat playing with a toy.
The funny thing about action photography, and photography in general really, is that it is very unnatural. Life is constantly moving and flowing. Even at rest we still have things going on around us.
This past weekend I had the pleasure of going out to see my sister’s soccer team make it to the semi-finals of their league’s playoffs. Unfortunately, they didn’t make it to the championship game, but they did put up quite a fight.
The game was so close that they had to go to a shoot out to determine the winner.
Click the link below to view the photos from the game.
Gallery: SOCCER IN THE FALL
Some times life can get crazy. Unfortunately, that craziness can also wear us down and keep us from doing what we really want to do.
The problem with getting worn down isn’t always that it physically keeps us from doing what we like to do, but rather that it can take your passion and make it feel like a chore.
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Every once in a while it’s always good to look back on what we’ve done. That’s definitely a lot easier to do when you have lots and lots of photos.
When trying to figure out what I was going to for this week’s installment of “Photos for Friday” I wasn’t sure what I was going to be able to come up with. Although, that’s mainly because I didn’t have any time to take new photos this week.
Lucky for you I’ve been meaning to go through the photos from my trip to Tokyo a few years ago.
Two things struck me as I was reviewing the photos: I can’t believe I went to Tokyo and I can’t believe how bad of a photographer I was back then compared to now.
It amazes me how many photos I had to throw out just to get a decent batch for this first album. Thankfully, though, I took a ton of them over the two weeks that I was there.
Click on the link below to view the gallery from the first few days of the trip. I’ll be sure to post more from the trip when I can.
Gallery: TOKYO, WHAT SEEMS LIKE FOREVER AGO
You know I wouldn’t leave you hanging. Seeing as this blog is really all about photography and everything that surrounds it, of course I had to show some examples of depth of field.
Like I said before, controlling your depth of field is really helpful for creating different looks.
Well, Topical Storm (or is it just a depression now?) Ida is doing its best to ruin everyone’s fun these past couple of days. So I figured it would be a good occasion to dig through some photos I took several months back on a rainy evening.
Remember the other day when I talked about making your photos better by giving them depth? Well, today we’re going to take that idea and run with it a even further.
Now that you know how to compose your photos and create a foreground, mid-ground, and background, I wanted to talk about how you can play with that concept a little more.
I want to show you what happens when you do only focus on the foreground or want to bring the entire photo into focus.
That’s right, we’re talking about Depth of Field…
Luke Blanchard 