I enrolled in a watercolor class at The Art League last winter precisely because I know nothing about watercolor. I have found that studying art in unfamiliar mediums helps me to see the familiar more clearly — that is to say, studying watercolor helps me to solve problems that I come across in, say, photography….
The instant feedback of digital photography has made the process of learning to take great pictures infinitely easier. Did I get everybody in the frame? Check the LCD. Did anybody blink? Check the LCD. Is my picture too bright/dark? This is where checking the back of the camera can get beginners into trouble. It’s important…
Wasn’t it brilliant of Christopher to show up in his favorite T-shirt? Total surprise, he had no idea I went to college at Oregon. I seized the opportunity to use the bright colors of a fun shirt to do a side-by-side comparison. The test shots surprised me. Both images straight-out-of-the-camera (SOOC), no color correction…
This image, my friends, is an example of first learn the rules, then learn to break them. Relax. Today is a fun day, lesson is a review, assignment is relevant to a festive American holiday. Going back to last lesson’s extra credit question: Originally, our goal wasn’t to change the exposure ratio by lightening or…
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defocus verb ( -focused , -focusing or -focussed, -focussing) [ trans. ] cause (an image, lens, or beam) to go out of focus : the filter lets you defocus all or part of an image. ••• At the beach, for example, on vacation: why focus? Watching my husband toss a football to our son requires…
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