About a week ago I wrote a post, What Is A Project, which focused mainly on personal projects. But, I have had other kinds, commissioned projects by clients. We need to treat them quite differently from personal projects. Instead of having an idea and exploring whether it may work, in commissioned projects we need to focus on ideas that will work … [Read more...]
Infrared Walkabouts
With the Canon M5 converted for infrared photography, I enjoyed photographing the neighborhood and even drove about 2.5 miles from home to see the Narragansett Bay. From the end of Norwood Ave. in Cranston I photographed the wind turbines and the splash of small waves. When you look at those water photographs, try to imagine the movement and the … [Read more...]
What Is A Project?
About a month ago at a meeting with a small group of photographers, the conversation came to "what is a project" and questions related to it. Some said they started a project with a very clear idea of what they wanted to do, while others started without even thinking it was a project. Although I was involved in projects of both kinds I was not … [Read more...]
Of Laces, Yachts, Streets
I want to talk about lace, fancy and frilly lace. The kind used in wedding gowns, fancy dresses, underwear. It can be made on computerized textile machines that can replicate the same pattern with great consistency. Then there is lace made on 19th-century machines which can produce extremely complex patterns that computerized machinery cannot … [Read more...]
Plants Grown and In the Wild
A fine line divides for most people the plants they like and those they hate. This separation stems mainly from whether we wanted to plant them or they grew on their own, or unwanted weeds. That said, both plants we grow or nature decides to grow them have many similar qualities such as elegance, graceful lines, even gorgeous colors. They differ … [Read more...]
Fair Weather Photographer
Yes, I am a fair weather photographer. I don't like to go out in the cold or rainy days, but when the air is dry and the temperature is comfortable I enjoy my walks, short ones as you all know by now! Today was one of those days and I have been waiting to photograph the flowering trees, dogwood, redbud, and others. In front of the Asbury United … [Read more...]
Springtime on Spring Green Road
Springtime has arrived on Spring Green Rd. A short walk, as usual, rewarded me with plenty of buds, opening flowers, blue skies, and warm weather. All the photographs are taken on Spring Green Road on the other side of the Narragansett Parkway. That is the start of the area known as the Governor Francis Farms. I walked up to the house with … [Read more...]
A Low-Cost Highly Functional Panorama Head
Stitching images sequentially photographed has been around for quite a while and the software that can assemble the images have come a long way from the early days of panoramic photography. I enjoy creating wide-view images using single or multi-row stitching as the vista covered takes a different look after all is said and done. I have been using … [Read more...]
A New Infrared Camera: Canon M5
I have been doing infrared photography for quite a while now which started with a Canon G7 point-and-shoot converted for this purpose. With that camera, I took many photographs from the window of commercial airplanes as I flew from Providence to Salt Lake City over a course of four years. Eventually, that collection, Infrared Earthscapes, got … [Read more...]
Infrared Channel Swapping in Lightroom
Lightroom has had some weaknesses when it came to processing infrared images like channel swap and white balance. The primary problem has been and continues to be the range of white balance options not being wide enough into the blue end of the slider. That has had a fix for quite some time which I will quickly outline here for completeness. The … [Read more...]
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