Infinity
Some would say that overcast and rainy days are not fitting for vacations on the Chesapeake Bay. On the contrary, these types of days encourage quiet walks and talks with friends (and loud, joyful laughing, too), cookouts on the beach, and if you’re me, even a bit of play in the water.
I’d also get up every morning and spend an hour or so with the camera. Something kept me coming back to this dock and this perspective.
The dock, and the world, just seemed to go on forever.
Our kitchen cupboard with glasses in the morning light
I got up one morning, stepped into the kitchen, opened the cupboard, looked in, turned around took the camera …
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Mystery of Modesty
Nikon D800, 60mm macro lens – manual focus, ss 1/2500, f 5.6, ISO 400
Those of you who know me from following my personal blog, Robyn Graham Photography, know that a significant portion of my fine art body of work is flowers. Not only do I love flowers as subject matter, but I love the language of flowers. Most, if not all, of my floral images are named based on the meaning of the flower in the Victorian Language of flowers in addition to the color of the flower and the meaning of the color. Many people have asked me if I have read the book “Language of Flowers” by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. The answer is yes and I loved it, but even prior to reading the book, my love affair for flowers and their meaning were a significant part of my work.
When working with most of my subjects I tend to use aperture as my voice. Using a shallow depth of field can be tricky when photographing flowers but when used appropriately it can be a very powerful tool for effectively capturing light and creating emotion. I am presently working on a new series with ballet pointe shoes. All of the images thus far have been black and white and aperture has been the priority technique in my work process. If you are interested in black and white photography and/or ballet, the series has just begun, but there are a couple of images on my personal blog.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Nikon D610 and Tamron 90mm Di SP Macro Lens – 1/250 @ f/7.1 – ISO 200
I wanted to show the detailed texture of these fern leaves so I decided to use the full frame sensor on the Nikon D610 to maximize the detail in the shadow areas. Please note although the aperture is set to f/7.1 the depth of field is still very shallow when using any sort of macro or close up lens combined with a full frame sensor. Just a little tip to keep in mind for when you go out and shoot macro.
More of my images can be seen at The Visual Chronicle
A walk in Warsaw Old Town. I love the atmosphere.
As most of you (or maybe only some of you) know by now, Joe of The Visual Chronicle is the mastermind behind Monochromia! When he saw the post I did last week on my blog, he commented: I think it looks great and has come a long way from that blah Jpeg file. The last step would be to convert it to black and white and post it on Monochromia 🙂 And remember “you could trust your car to the man who wears the star”
So here it is, my blah Jpeg file color corrected in Lightroom to glorious black and white. I think I prefer the color version this time but please let me know what you think! (That’s a not so sneaky way of getting those of you who have not yet visited our individual sites to go visit mine for a start, then go visit everyone else’s.)
Innocently striking a light down at Union Square when someone comes along and sticks a camera in her face.
Shot in the full light of day using a Nikon FM2, Kodak 400 TX, it really did feel as though I were shooting in the dark.
That day was so cold. In the middle of the St-Lawrence river at -45°C (-49°F).
Several evenings a week in my small city, it’s possible to find folks picking up their instruments and creating beautiful music. This past Friday, I had the chance to capture the sight, if not the sound, of that music. The hands fascinate me, the way they move, almost effortlessly, over the instrument.
If you’d like to see some more images from that evening, please check out Local Music at my original blog Life on the Bike.
And please visit the blogs of the other photographers on Monochromia. They make some pretty great music with their cameras!
This picture was by pure chance, it was late at night, totaly dark in a mountainous area (Bird´s mountains, right in the middle of Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelsberg_Mountains),
A friend of mine who was driving came around the curve and I saw these reflective lines and traffic posts. Suddenly I shouted to my friend “Stop, I have to take a picture”.
We were on the road in the darkness for hours but until this moment when we went around the curve I have never seen this. There was a little bit more ambient light, but this is more like what I had envisioned in my mind when I shouted “Stop”.
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