photography

learn photography – 10 – black & white

I’ve had a bit of a problem with my computer so my submission for Raj’s black & white lesson was on the back burner for the past week.  I decided to challenge myself during this lesson by using a 50 mm lens and manual focus during a rain storm.  The outcome of my exploration with various f-stops was hampered by the – sigh – a very limited experience and trust with manual focus.

Nikon D750  f/5.6  1/30s  50mm  200 ISO  manual focus

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Nikon D750  f/5.6  1/30s  50mm 200 ISO  manual focus

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Before the rain, I decided to explore the interactions of the histogram and shutter speed in the Nikon D750 while photographing the arrival of autumn.

f/7.1  1/6s  300mm  ISO 200

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tuesday photo challenge: signs

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…a sign means something – stop, go, walk, etc. The sign thinks for you. It commands you. A symbol, on the other hand, represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity. But the important word here is represents. The symbol represents something else, something beyond what you are looking at–whereas the sign means only this… Where the sign thinks for you, the symbol asks you to do the thinking–abstract versus the literal.

~Junichiro Tanizaki

A sign painted on a building commanding the passerby to “stop” and “drink…”  Submitted in response to  Dutch goes the Photo’s challenge.

Why again?

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A mom whose family’s budget is struggling to meet their basic needs of shelter, food, transportation, education, and medical care inquires, “Why do I as a mother of an ill child need to keep coming back to you to ask you NOT to take away my child’s health care?”

Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, “Because my campaign fund-raising is drying up…”

I wonder, “and RNC funds are being redirected to Trump’s Russia defense expenses?”