Horsetooth Reservoir Nikon D750 f/13 1/100 35mm 100 ISO
silent sunday
photography
photo study: shutter speed
This week’s photo study is an exploration of shutter speed. Shutter speed, a basic photographic component, is defined as the amount of time your camera allows light to enter your camera. The variables of a scene being photographed together with the size of aperture and the shutter speed have the potential to create unique images.
A fast shutter speed will freeze moving objects.
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/2,500 300mm 100 ISO
While fast shutter speeds create crisp and sharp images, slow shutter speeds — open for half a second or longer – extends the length of time light is entering your camera. This light is continuously being influenced by the motion within the scene and thus creating blurry, foggy, silky, or milky elements within an image.
Nikon D750 f/22 1s 35mm 100 ISO
Nikon D750 f/8 241s 24mm 100 ISO
The shutter speed in panning photography can be as low as 1/20 or as fast as 1/125. The trick is to match the speed of the subject with your speed of panning. The inclusion of motion blur within street photography is often created with a high aperture setting, a low as possible ISO, and a low shutter speed.
Nikon D750 f/29 1/6s 75mm 100 ISO
Nikon D750 f/9 1/20s 85mm 320 ISO
The images below are examples of various shutter speeds with the same aperture and ISO settings.
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/60s 35mm 100 ISO
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/30s 35mm 100 ISO
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/20s 35mm 100 ISO
Thank you for taking the time to visit. I hope you enjoy Ted Forbes’ discussion of shutter speed and his nighttime images. Would love to hear your thoughts and see your creative work.
with each breath…
Spring Creek Nikon D750 f/2 1/40s 35mm 100 ISO
The foundation of all mindfulness practice is awareness of the breath. There is no mindfulness without awareness of our in-breath and out-breath. Mindful breathing unites the body and mind and helps us to become aware of what is going on inside us and around us. In our daily life, we often forget that mind and body are connected. Our bodies are here but our minds are not. Sometimes we lose ourselves in a book, a film, the internet or an electronic game, and we’re carried off, far away from our body and the reality of where we are. Then, when we lift our head out of the book or look up from the screen, we may be confronted with feelings of anxiety, guilt, fear, or irritation. We rarely go back to our inner peace, to our inner island of calm and clarity, to be in touch with Mother Earth.
We can get so caught up in our plans, fears, agitations, and dreams that we aren’t living in our bodies anymore and we’re not in touch with our real mother, the Earth, either. We can’t see the miraculous beauty and magnificence that our planet offers to us. We are living more and more in the world of our minds and becoming increasingly alienated from the physical world. Returning to our breathing brings body and mind back together and reminds us of the miracle of the present moment. Our planet is rich here, powerful, generous, and supportive at every moment. Once we recognize these qualities in the Earth, we can take refuge in her in our difficult moments, making it easier for us to embrace our fear and suffering and to transform it.
Awareness of the in-breath and out-breath first of all calms us down. By paying attention to your breathing, without judgment, you bring peace back to your body, and release the pain and tension. …
When our minds and bodies have calmed down, we begin to see more clearly. When we see more clearly, we feel more connected to ourselves and to the Earth and we have more understanding. When there is clarity and understanding, love can bloom because true love is based on understanding.
…Each breath contains nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor as well as other trace elements, so each breath that we inhale contains the Earth. With each breath, we’re reminded that we are part of this beautiful life-giving planet.
~Thich Nhát Hahn, (Love Letter to the Earth)
winter sleep
winter sleep Nikon D750 f/13 13.1s 28mm 100 ISO
wpc: favorite place
My Favorite Place…Downtown Nikon D750 f/8 1/125 24mm 100 ISO
In the early 1960s, Grand Junction, Colorado’s downtown commercial district was restructured into a tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly shopping park that borders the gentle winding Main Street.
Today, one of the first things we do when we return to visit family and friends is to undertake a walk about with our memories of what use to be and amazement at what remains as we view the various exhibits that are currently part of the Art on the Corner project.
solitary
On a mountain slope,
Solitary, uncompanioned,
Stands a cherry tree.
Except for you, lonely friend,
To others I am unknown
~Abbot Gyoson
Spring!!!!
I’ll forget the trail
I marked out on Mount Yoshino
last year,
go searching for blossoms
in directions I’ve never been before
~Saigyō (B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)
the eyes have it
The question, “Is the centered eye more likely to follow the viewer?” drew me to the above piece of art while walking across the Colorado State University campus.
silent sunday
Nikon D750 f/3.3 1/1.250 40 mm 100 ISO
a photo study: rule of space
Nikon D750 f/4 1/160 190 mm I00 ISO
Ted Forbes notes that the rule of space offers the photographer a way to create a sense of motion, activity or conclusion within one’s composition and that it simply involves creating negative space that relates to the subject within the image.
For example, if you place negative space outside your subjects head in a portrait, you imply maybe there is thought going on – particularly if you direct your subject’s eyes toward the negative space.
Or if you have a picture of a motorcycle zooming across the desert. Placing the negative space in front of the motorcycle creates a sense of direction or implication of eventual destination
Nikon D750 f/4.2 1/400 45mm 100 ISO
It is my thinking that Ted Forbes’ discussion dovetails nicely with Raj’s Xdrive photography lesson about a photograph speaking.
a “good picture always speaks out its story…The story the picture is trying to broadcast is nothing but your vision or an intent or a message you are trying to convey to the viewers.
Nikon D750 f/14 1/80 32mm 100 ISO
Thank you for taking the time to visit; and as always, I would love to read your thoughts about the interconnection between story and space as photography composition tools and any images you would like to share.
Hope you enjoy Ted Forbes’ Rule of Space video.
negative & positive space
The use of negative and positive space within photo composition aids in directing where you want the viewer’s eye to go.
Hop on over to Amy’s The World is a Book to journey through her images of positive and negative space.
a meditative journey 
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