by Rick Diffley on May 20, 2012
How Did I Do This?
This week’s Word Press Weekly Photo Challenge is ”hands.” With these challenges I like to venture out and try to produce an image that is different from what you may expect to see and what has already been captured. Plus, it keeps me sharp trying something new that I’ve not shot before.
Here’s how I shot this image of my hands tossing a basketball in the air…
<> Shot inside my garage. The background was the white painted garage wall.
<> My Nikon D300 was on a tripod in manual mode and shot at: f/16 with a shutter speed of 0.3 second.
<> I set the timer on my camera to 5 seconds. Pressed the shutter button, waited ’till just the right time and tossed the basketball into the air. To get this final image took about eight tries.
<> Post processing included using Flypaper Textures “Swans Way” background to have an added twist to the final image (-: You can learn more about how to use textured backgrounds here: Textured Background Tutorial.
Thank you for stopping by. I always welcome comments and critiques.
by Rick Diffley on May 15, 2012
Blue Fog Silhouette
Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue
The Word Press Weekly Photo Challenge is all about including blue in an image. This image was shot in Spokane, Washington along an area called: “High Drive.” On the east side of “High Drive” street, for about 1/4 mile, is a park like area with lots of grass, pine trees, smaller trees, and some bushes. On the west side of the street is the huge drop off, called the “the bluff” that drops off gradually and then more steeply, for at least 1/2 mile. No houses here! However, it was a great play area when I was growing up just blocks away. This section of “High Drive” is a ripe for fog to form in the early morning.
Do you know why the fog is blue? The answer is at the end of this article.
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by Rick Diffley on May 13, 2012
I picked this image because of its uniqueness seen in the petal compared to the other tulips my wife brought home from the store. Also, I always think of images like this and using a textured background, which I’ll talk about at the end of the article.
Uniqueness is a key factor in photography, find the unique vs shooting the standard flower portrait. I talked about this in more detail in the article: “Look For The Unique In Macro Shots: The Macro Corner.” It can be as simple as this petal or finding the tip of a leaf curled up against other fall leaves.
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by Rick Diffley on May 9, 2012
Rick Diffley Featured Photographer June 2012
The Brick Wall Gallery in Spokane, Washington will feature my photography starting June 1, 2012 and run through the end of June. Each month the gallery offers the work of a different photographer at its Spokane, Washington location. My show will display not one or two images, but rather about fifteen macro floral photography images!
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by Rick Diffley on May 6, 2012
Rusty Car - HDR Processing
Jake Sprinter’s Sunday Post Photo Challenge: Vehicle
Each week Jake Sprinter provides the ”Sunday Post (Photo) Challenge” to anyone that wishes to participate. The photo challenge this week is: “Vehicle.”
Once again, I had the perfect image in order to introduce folks to the HDR post-processing editing method. The above image is that of a rusty Chevy truck. Shooting and learning HDR can open up a whole new photography imaging world to you.
To learn more about the photo challenge and how to participate go here: http://www.jakesprinters.wordpress.com
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