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TJ’s Daily Blog #72 Imperfection Photographers, especially in the digital age, can get caught up in chasing perfection. We think we need the sharpest lens, the perfect composition, the best light, etc… The pursuit of perfection over all else can be smothering. Sometimes it is just good to experiment and enjoy yourself. Embrace the mistakes. Mistakes can […]
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The Daily Blog #66 Passing a Protest with a 35mm Protesters, led by a farm workers coalition, marched up High St. Sunday, to protest Wendy’s treatment of its workers. For the back story on this protest check this and this out. I just happened to be passing by in a car, and had no idea what was going […]
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The Daily Blog #65 Headshot Photobooth The Clintonville Chamber of Commerce had an awards dinner Friday night celebrating the Business of the Year, Business Person of the Year, and Volunteer of the year. Since the Chamber is all about supporting small businesses, we decided to set up a business-savvy ‘Headshot’ photobooth. I decided to use the projector screen that was already set […]
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The Daily Blog #64 Clintonville in Green and Grey As the winter grey continues, I took advantage of a couple of minutes of free time to walk around my neighborhood and shoot. Clintonville quickly started to quickly become a very simple palette of grey and green. It has been a very grey winter, but the […]
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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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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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The Daily blog #61 Window When I got this roll of Portra 400 developed, I noticed that half of the roll contained weird, double exposures. I wish I could take credit for the way that her face lines up with the superimposed window-view, but it was not planned. To my surprise, I never rewound my film all […]
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The Daily blog #60 To Be Seen I had just shot the last frame of film in my 35mm film camera when I saw that fur coat. At that same moment, he saw me holding a camera and immediately asked me to take his picture. I turned on my digital camera and shot five quick frames. The wind blew my camera strap into the shot in three […]
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The Daily Blog #57 Ducking and Running Whenever I am shooting in the city, I find that some people are very serious about avoiding being in my shot. Whether they don’t want to be in my photograph out of self-consciousness, or they just don’t want to ‘mess up’ my shot, some people try pretty hard to duck […]
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TJ’s Daily Blog #56 Shooting film teaches my digital eyes to see with my brain. There is a certain amount of hope and imagination required when shooting film. First, you have to hope that the film is actually sensitive to light. Before you even start to meter the scene, you have to imagine how you want to render the image in […]
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