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I really enjoy the clarity that you get from digital cameras sometimes.
Many will argue that the images are too sharp, and need some of the soft focus available in film cameras.
This image was captured with a small portable digital camera, which does not have a lot of capacity for soft focus.
I just had to be careful about the composition to ensure that only a few elements were in the frame.
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I really enjoy finding abstraction in nature.
Probably the best thing about it is that you can find it anywhere.
This shot was taken on a busy street after a heavy fog. Since the focus is on the branch and droplet, the surrouding area is hard to make out.
Give it a try! Walk down the street and see what interesting abstract images you can find!
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Nature never ceases to amaze. One day you go out into the backyard and see roses, nothing special.
The next morning you go out after a light rain and those same roses are transformed into glittering jewels.
The trick is grabbing a camera right then and there, because 15 minutes later they did not look the same.
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One of the hardest parts of macro photography is getting things in focus.
Since macro lenses magnify the image so much, the slightest change in camera position causes blur in the image.
One solution is to take all macro photos with the camera on a tripod.
The other is to boost the ISO (as I did here) to get really fast shutter speeds so blur is minimized.
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This shot was pure luck and timing.
I had just settled in to take some photos of the chrome reflections in the wheel of this fire truck.
Right as I was taking the shots, this kid ran up next to the truck in his red shirt.
I probably could have set this up, but it was more fun just to capture it.
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I sometimes think of photography simply as seeing those things that everyone else overlooks.
A lot of this comes from the fact that when you are holding a camera, you are actively looking for things to photograph.
This in turn makes you more aware of everything around you, and you begin to see the smaller details that make up the big picture.
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I have always liked the simplicity of this image.
I also like the simplicity of how it was captured. You might think studio, 3 light setup, hour of manipulation.
In reality, this flower was just sitting in a vase on a dining room table.
The window light coming in was just right, and the background was underexposed to get the detail in the white flower.
The underexposed background also hides the table and makes the flower more pronounced.
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I boosted the ISO on this shot so that I could get a fast shutter speed.
Macro shots are notoriously blurry because the slightest camera motion results in HUGE changes of focus.
The light was just right for this shot and I did not want to take the time to set up a tripod (the best way to take macro shots).
The only remaining alternative was to get the fastest shutter speed I could, and hope for the best.
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Clouds periodically take on a very surreal quality.
Light has a lot to do with it, and on this particular morning I could not stop taking photos.
There was just too much variety to explore, and here it was a simple cloud.
The quality and texture were unique - the challenge then became to capture the cloud in an abstract fashion to disassociate it from the ground.
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I have always been fascinated by the patterns in leaves. Typically, they don't appear in photographs because the light has to be just right to enhance the pattern.
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Here's a good example of using a high ISO to boost the shutter speed.
This photo was taken later on in the afternoon, so there is no direct light.
Since the dog was romping all over the place (chewing on the grass) I knew that I needed a fast shutter speed to get a clear photo.
I could not open the aperture any futher, so my only option was to boost the ISO to 800 to get the shot.
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Focus is always challenging when you are using a macro lens.
The depth of field is so shallow, that the slightest adjustment in camera position results in an out-of-focus image.
In this case, I was able to focus on the head of the bee (which is what I wanted) and left the rest of the body out of focus.
A smaller aperture (say f11) might have resulted in more depth of field, but not much.
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It's amazing what you can see if you just take the time to look.
I walk past this alleyway every single day of the week. For whatever reason, I had never stopped to photograph it.
Once I got started, there was an almost endless series of photographic surprises.
The trick was getting started in the first place, and taking the time to really look at place that I already felt familiar with.
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Part of my fascination with photography is capturing fleeting moments in time.
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Color is such a fascinating thing.
Our eyes perceive such a wide variety of colors and tones, that sometimes it's hard to single one out for a photograph.
This particular instance of equivalent color (sofa, eyes, clothes) just happened to come together.
Sometimes color is deliberately planned, and sometimes it's just serendipity.