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TJ’s Daily Blog # 69- Cityscapes with Tamron

The Daily Blog #69 Cityscapes with Tamron For me, architecture is all about lines and composition. When I shoot a building, I am not looking to necessarily represent the building as it is, but instead interpret the building photographically. Sometimes that means a towering building appearing ominous and foreboding, or strange and cold- kind of like […]

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TJ’s Daily Blog #63- Angles and Shadows

The Daily Blog #63 Angles and Shadows   Sometimes every shadow is leaning in to block the light from your eyes. Keep moving. Get past the shadows. Gear used: Nikon D610 FX Body Tamron 15-30 f/2.8 Di VC USD lens Lexar 32GB Professional 633x UHS-I SDHC Memory Card Cityscapes: Travel and Architecture Photo Contest Sponsored by Tamron […]

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TJ’s Daily Blog #62- Air/Plane

The Daily Blog #62 Air/Plane   One of the most important skills in photography is editing. Editing is what happens before you post-process. Post-processing is when you use techniques and software to finish an image, while editing is filtering through the photos that you have taken to choose which ones you want to process. It is also […]

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Cityscapes: Travel and Architecture Photo Contest Sponsored by Tamron

Cityscapes: Travel and Architecture Photo Contest Sponsored by Tamron Lenses Cityscape definition from Wikipedia: A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape… In the visual arts a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. For our Spring […]

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The Daily Photo #42- Convergence

The Daily Photo #42- February 11th, 2016 Convergence Using converging lines is a useful compositional technique when shooting architecture, especially when there are multiple lines leading the eye toward the vanishing point. It almost feels like you are getting pulled toward the point of convergence, adding visual interest to a shot that is really very simple. I wanted a […]

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TJ’s Daily Photo #33- Commonwealth

The Daily Photo #33- February 2nd, 2016 Commonwealth I was looking forward to shooting some color after the grey days of January. Even the fish seem to be trying to eat up the last of the sun’s rays. This is at the very last minutes of sunset, when Columbus is as golden as it is ever going to get. I […]

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TJ’s Daily Photo #32- Blue Skies in Black and White

The Daily Photo #32- February 1st, 2016 Blue Skies in Black and White Got some blue skies out today and I am still in the mood for black and whites! Golden hour light is also beautiful in monochrome. I rushed downtown to catch the last hour of sun on the architecture downtown. The blue skies and vivid […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

The ART of Sharpness: Sigma Redefines the 50mm Prime lens

The Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art lens is a high-resolution lens that brings all the crisp detail, sharpness, ‘bokeh’, and feel of a luxury lens, for less than luxury price. This lens is single-handedly bringing the glamour back to the 50mm focal length and the prime lens in general. Zoom lenses may be the workhorse of a lot […]

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