Deciding What to Photograph: Keeping an Idea List

Pretty essential question, right? Nothing you do with lighting, shutter speed, lens choice, etc., will nave nearly so much impact on your photos as deciding what to shoot.

Right out of college I landed in the excellent Patuxent Publishing Co. photo department, which was run by a guy named Tenney Mason. One of his many mandates was to ensure each of us maintained an idea list, which was a 50,000-foot view of what we wanted to explore with our camera.

Nearly 25 years later, I am still doing it. Here is my current list as a window into how I develop subjects. I hope it encourages you to start and develop your own. Read more »

URL: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/07/deciding-what-to-photograph-keeping.html

Q&A Antonio Beverly: Light Direction, Freezing Motion and Duotones

Lots of good discussion in the comments and on Twitter about the Antonio Beverly shoot from earlier this week.

In particular, three questions involving light, motion blur and post processing: Read more »

URL: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/07/q-antonio-beverly-light-direction.html

Photographs: F LIne

F Line, Fisherman’s Wharf. San Francisco, California. June of 2012.

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MostlyPhotography/~3/64X7E1DbVPo/

Who Are You People, Anyway?

This summer I am trying to get a better grip on just who visits this site, and how you use it.

So I will drop in the occasional two-click, one-question poll. I am using Google "Plus 1's" because you can't game The Google.

This week, an update of an earlier survey which revealed us to be, depressingly, 94% male. Please, let it be more balanced this time. (UPDATE: It's not looking good.)

Click here to stand up and be counted for your gender.

Many thanks,
DH

URL: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/07/who-are-you-people-anyway.html

It's DIY Thursday

Fancy yourself a bit of a … modder?

You're not the only one. In fact, of the ~10,000 people who arrive at Strobist via a Google search on a given day, many of them are looking for a specific DIY solution.

Today, the top ten searched for DIY projects on Strobist—and how practical it is to attempt each of them... Read more »

URL: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/07/fancy-yourself-bit-of-modder-youre-not.html

Flickr Update for Niels Henriksen

Just a short note to let my readers know that I have reached 10,000 plus viewers on Flickr.

So a little jump for joy.

While for many this may not be momentous, for all those who have photos on Flickr, it is a step for me in trying to get more exposure for my photographs. While I joined in 2007 I did start to add image until a couple of years ago after my first trip to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

F/24 @ 1/6 sec

I like this image because it takes a moment to figure out that this is a person on a bike jumping, flying through the air in a skateboard park.

 F/16 @ 1/250 sec

These photos are 2 examples where controlling the shutter speed is important. In the first photo a slower shutter speed is used to blur action and the other photo a faster shutter speed to freeze it. Do take the time to drop by and view some of my images and do take the time to connect on Flickr so that I can view your photos.

 You can view my photo-stream here .

Niels Henriksen

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kecE/~3/wq_D5LYqzkU/justa-short-note-to-let-my-readers-know.html

Photographs: Dogpatch Cafe

Dogpatch Cafe, 3rd. Street. San Francisco, California. May of 2012.

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