“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
~ Andy Warhol
Archive of posts tagged photography
Change
daffydowndilly in winter
“From December to March, there are for many of
us three gardens:
the garden outdoors,
the garden of pots and bowls in the house,
and the garden of the mind’s eye.”
- Katherine S. White
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The name Daffodil is derived from an earlier “Affodell”, a variant of Asphodel. The reason for the introduction of the initial “d” is not [...]
Red!
After shooting (without killing) a lusty red amaryllis plant yesterday and posting to my RedBubble sales account, I began to ponder.
Does the sharp detail err on the side of masculine? A quick perusal of others’ photos reveals shallow depth-of-field photos, blurred intentionally using the Orton effects, and then covered by a layer of texture. [...]
Testing ebooks and iPhones
Photographer and author David duChemin recently released three ebooks targeted toward helping beginner-to-intermediate photographers.
Two ebooks cover basic photography principles and the third focuses on composition. I plan to purchase one entitled “10″ to test a recent discovery.
I discovered that I concentrate better and speed-read less when I read a book on my iPhone. Despite [...]
The story
David duChemin writes,
When I consider the unique challenges of telling stories within the confines of a single photographic frame, two aspects of storytelling come to mind. The first is the study of themes that tie the image to our deeper, more universal human experience. The second is conflict, revealed in the frame by contrasts. [...]
Struggling rather than creating
Bench in the rain
“It doesn’t matter what you are photographing; a sense of story will make your images more engaging and compelling.”
Thus writes David duChemin in his book Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision.
Hmm. Must go for a walk and think small. The world is much too complicated to continue.