In portrait class three we studied full length portraits and lighting. There was also a lot of discussion about hand orientation, leg position, and feet placement. There was a lot to keep in your head at once, while also trying to focus and frame the photo and communicate with the model. The below full length… Read More Portrait Class 3
Saturday (July 20, 2019) was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. To celebrate the day, I took my youngest daughter, who is quite space obsessed, to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the special event. One of the highlights of the day was getting to see the newly restored mission control… Read More 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
I tried to spend some time in Yellowstone and Grand Teton taking some landscape photos, though it wasn’t my main objective on the trip. I was mainly having fun with my daughter looking at animals. Had I been there alone, I probably would have found a few places to come back to at specific times… Read More Yellowstone and Grand Teton Landscapes
I had my second installment of a portrait class that I am taking with my daughter. This class was focused on flashes. I don’t own an external flash for my camera so I had to use the equipment provided by the instructor. The first thing to try was direct flash with the flash mounted on… Read More Portrait Class, Part 2
I just got back from taking my daughter to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. We were there for several days and I have a lot of photos to go through. We did have a lot of fun looking for the large animals and I am posting some of those pictures today. One… Read More Animals in Yellowstone
I recently signed up for portrait classes with my oldest daughter. I have no experience shooting portraits and I generally prefer landscapes (no people), but my daughter is quite in to portraiture and had taken photos for many of the girls that she went to high school with. So, I signed up for this class… Read More Portrait Class, Part 1
I had to do a lot of driving last weekend and I ended up spending a lot of time on US-71 between Austin and Columbus Texas. So I tried to find a few things to do along the way to make the trip more interesting. I was hoping that I could find a thing or… Read More Some Photos Along the Way
After my recent hike at Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, I stopped on a part of the ridge with an overlook to the west. There were some high clouds on the horizon and I thought that there might be a nice sunset. I had about 10 minutes to walk around and try to find a… Read More Balcones Canyonlands Sunset in HDR
Thursday evening it was hot and humid and I needed a hike. So, I went to one of my favorite places again. I got to the parking lot and as usual it was empty, so it would just be me and a few million bugs in the refuge. As soon as I got out of… Read More Golden Hour Hike
Happy Father’s Day (in the USA). The day started off cloudy and rainy which ruined my planned morning photography outing. But in the afternoon the sun came out, and being of bored mind I wandered around my backyard and decided that I would take close-up photos of some lantana flowers. I went and grabbed my… Read More Lantana Flower Close-Up
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