From where I live in the norther part of the state of Georgia, US, this past week I was covered by immense rain, surrounded by flooding, and hoping for the end of the weather to come. Luckily, I snapped some pretty interesting photos out of my car window on the way to school before school was cancelled for Tuesday. Here they are:
My favorite thing about the first two images is the depth of field. As you can see, I focused on the water droplets and not the cars and the Waffle House restaurant in the background, which gave me an amazing photograph of blurry lights behind crisp water droplets.
Oh, isn’t photography fun?
Let me count the ways… with some photos I took during rehearsal.
If you didn’t know, my other love is music- and my musical life is a thing I love to document in my photography.
Any comments, etc? I’d be glad to hear them! Cheers.
Since it’s Sunday, I think it’s appropriate to think about churches. So, here are some pictures of and around St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. Enjoy and have a great, restful day.
So, I have been using a Nikon D40 for the past… year and a half I think? I’m really not that quite sure anymore, since all this time has only been exciting and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to imagine the world without it. But I digress.
So, the Nikon D40 comes standard with an 18-55mm lens, which really does the job. I think the most surprising thing I found when I got it was that the 18mm focal length has a slight fisheye to it, and this made me so excited.
However, as good as this lens has been for me, I’m looking for another one so that I can have the flexibility of a longer range of photographic abilities. Lately I’ve been looking at the Nikon 55-200mm VR lens, because it is pretty much “the” companion lens to the 18-55.
When doing some research on it, I stumbled upon Ken Rockwell’s article on the lens, which was very informative and I think is going to convince me to buy the lens for 3 reasons:
- Ken explains that even though he owns some of the more expensive lenses he tends to default on the 55-200mm VR because it’s easier to carry and more fun to use. So, truly I’ll only need one more lens to get some serious stuff going.
- It has vibration reduction (VR) so if I shoot without a tripod (which is normally the case for me) I will have less of an issue with my inability to turn into marble on command; and
- Ken again says “The Nikon 55-200mm VR is very inexpensive. It’s the telephoto lens bargain of the decade at only about $230.” I can go for that.
So, I’m pretty much sold. Mr. 55-200mm VR, here I come.
Nikon 55-200mm VR lens
(for more information on this lens, check out my source at KenRockwell.com)
After remembering how wonderful that day was in and around Stratford upon Avon, England, I wanted to share some more of the images from that day with you all.
To quote their tourist website:
Welcome to Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, steeped in culture and history. Set in the beautiful rural Warwickshire countryside, on the banks of the river Avon, it is one of the most important tourist destinations in the UK. With easy road, rail and airport access, it is the perfect place for a vacation or short break.
And here’s the images to go along with the words.
I hope you enjoyed that capsule of time. Until the next one!
Hey guys and gals, I’m back from no-mans land.
I just read an interesting article on the Photofocus blog that touches on that urge that we all have as photographers-to be impatient and go-ahead with editing that photo on our less-than-perfect laptop.
You guys probably have your laptop that travels around with you as you take your photos and then your desktop at home with the giant screen and it’s calibrated colors, right? Well, if you’re like me you do, and if you have that going for you but your screen isn’t calibrated yet, go ahead and check out this website that you can use to help calibrate your computer monitor.
But anyways, back to the urge to edit. Of course, if you’re in less than perfect conditions, just wait a little while longer to edit those images when you have plenty of good lighting and a robust computer to work with them on.
Then there’s always the option to keep your images just the way they are; this works most of the time for me, and as you can tell by this photo I took in England this past summer, it worked great:
See you around.
-Taylor
