Photoshoot and Beyond
Category: Travel Photographer: Rajagopalan Sarangapani “Its Kids World” Photographer of the Day Rajagopalan Sarangapani uses the technique of a frame within a frame to focus our attention on to the boy’s face, the engaging big brown eyes drawing us in. The use of color is exquisite. And the hanging objects add balance to the scene, as well…
Always think of the wind, even when it doesn’t seem like a windy day. Anything affected by even the slightest amount of wind will look blurry. Unless you purposely want a blurred image, you might need to increase your shutter speed. The mightier the wind, the faster the shutter speed. Experiment to see what speed works best.…
Category: Travel Photographer: Sohail Karmani “Village girl” The village girl’s eyes, as captured by Photographer of the Day Sohail Karmani, say it all. She has experienced more than her years. The soft light pulls out her essence. The color of her head scarf blends with the background, framing her face but not detracting from it. I like…
The Grand Canyon is a window into the geological history of the earth. Some rocks are 1.7 billion years old. Every time I visit, I am awestruck. The canyon hasn’t changed much in my lifetime but due to weather, clouds, and lighting it always looks different. My photographs are never the same. The South Rim of the canyon is…
Category: Travel Photographer: Erik de Boer “Golden Ghent” Photographer of the Day Erik de Boer has captured a lovely image of Ghent, Belgium at night, with the city’s iconic buildings reflected in the river and people blurred as they walk or socialize along the riverfront. The line of the river draws us through the photograph…
Category: Travel Photographer: Full Life Photo Adventures “Svalbard, Polar Night” Photographer of the Day Full Life Photo Adventures captures the soft pink tones of the polar night in Svalbard, contrasted with the vibrant green thunderbolt of the Northern Lights. We are taken to a land few of us will ever see at a point in time that is magical.…
Category: Travel Photographer: Sean Capers “soothing sound” Photographer of the Day, Sean Capers, has taken advantage of the light at day’s end to make this image. In some ways, this is an image about silhouette’s. The banjo player is almost a silhouette–there is just enough light to show his face and the outline of his…
Category: Travel Photographer: Yovo Photo “Brothers” Creating an expressive photograph of two brothers from Benin, West Africa, Photographer of the Day Yovo Photo uses selective focus to spotlight initial attention on the older brother in the foreground. The younger brother in the background serves as an anchor, giving balance and adding depth to the image. The facial expressions…
October 24 marks my second anniversary. It is the day I put away all of my Nikon gear and became a Fuji “shooter”. No one was more surprised than me. I had initially bought the Fuji X-T1 with a standard kit lens as a backup for my Nikon D800. I wanted a camera I could easily carry…
Category: Travel Photographer: Murray Fox “Scarness Jetty” Photographer of the Day Murray Fox breaks the “rules” by putting his subject, a jetty in Queensland, Australia, right down the middle of the picture, using perspective to create a sense of depth. With no colors to distract us, we see the jetty stripped down to its essentials-the intersection of vertical, horizontal and…