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Environmental portraiture

22 October 2009, 3:50 pm

One of three construction workers repairing exterior of a house after a porch fire. Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm, 18mm, f/7.1, 1/160sec, manual exposure, -0.3ev, ISO640, monopod, no strobe and no Photoshop. Converted from 14-bit RAW to jpeg using Capture NX2.1. Shot for an exercise at RedBubble.com. Wikipedia.org has this to say about an environmental portrait: [...]

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Metaphors in photography?

21 October 2009, 10:16 am

A metaphor is an implicit comparison of one thing to something else: “my love is a red, red rose”. A simile, of course, is a kind of metaphor that makes the comparison explicit using “like” or “as”: “my love is as beautiful as a red, red rose.” Thus writes Harold Davis in his article Myths, [...]

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In the now

19 September 2009, 7:07 pm

 Black-capped Chickadee or the Red-breasted Nuthatch. Sounded more like the latter, but looks similar to a Black-capped chickadee. Perhaps someday I’ll know birds. Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mmm lens The Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) have black caps, white cheeks, and black throats and are gray above with buff sides fading to white undersides. Males, females, and [...]

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