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Oh Marching Band, How do I love thee?

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:30:50 +0000

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.

Sunday Church

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:30:40 +0000

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.

Wait to edit… or don’t edit at all!

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:26 +0000

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

Photoblog 2: Fourth of July

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:30:08 +0000

I did say that I was going to update these photoblogs more frequently.

But, since I’ve been out of town and such and have not been able to frequently obtain easy internet access, this will have to do.

So, as of late, I have purchased an iTouch. I was reluctant to switch to Apple, but since they’re the mainstream, there MUST be something wonderful about it- and I’ve discovered that.

Also, today is the occasion of which many Americans celebrate- the 4th of July, our Independence Day celebration. So, to commemorate this occasion (both of the Anniversary of our country and the fact that I have an iTouch) I have decided to share my pictures of fireworks as iTouch wallpapers!

(Later) Sorry about that- I tried to get them to display but for some reason the WordPress client isn’t being helpful right now! I promise I’ll make it up to you- I now have pictures of July the 14th fireworks on the Eiffel Tower for Bastille Day!

So, enjoy these freebies. And have a great 4th of July!

Photoblog 1: Bailey Performance Hall

Taylor Rambo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:58:55 +0000

First of all, let me apologize for not starting my photoblog on the day that I said I would. This week has been exhaustingly long due to the 8am-5pm music clinic I’ve been going to at Kennesaw State University and my inability (or perhaps avoidance) of going to sleep each night! Which brings me to this picture.

Bailey Performance Hall

This is a quick glimpse into what we were doing this morning. In an effort to expand our minds and not just confine us to musical information solely, Michael Alexander (pictured on the left), who is also the head of the music college at KSU asked [insert name here] to explain to us the importance of posture and thus, we learned how to enhance our playing by being comfortable within ourselves.

This shot is a perfect example of a spontaneous image of something that is occuring at an exact moment- something that cannot be captured the exact way again. These pictures are priceless, and they have great value in journalistic environments.

I modified the photography in several ways from the original:

1) I take all of my digital photographs in color, in the case that I can add a black and white effect later on if I choose to do so. There are many ways that you can add a grayscale effect- one is found on most digital cameras in the form of a grayscale photographing mode. On my camera (Nikon D40) I have an effects menu, and one of them is an option to grayscale.

(Part of the idea of grayscale is to take an element [color] out of the photography to enhance the emotion in the depiction, and/or the different values of light. Use this to your advantage, and since black and white film came before color, it can add a dated elegance to whatever you shoot!)

2) I added a vignetting filter from a program called Photoscape, a free photo editing software that does a WONDERFUL job adding filters and such to images. This vignetting effect allows for more focus on the subject, and also adds another dating effect to the image.

(Beware! You can add filters and such to your images, but if you do, make sure that what you’re doing is what you intend to do- too much manipulation can make an image too busy and detract from the original art.)

Well, that’s all for today. I hope you learned something, and I’ll HOPEFULLY have something for you again tomorrow!

Sincerely,
Taylor Rambo