Quote of the day: “In photography, observing is the first and most important skill we have to learn. Learning to observe requires us to set time aside to “see” familiar things.” ~ Freeman Patterson Photography and the Art of Seeing
Painterly streaks of color (up'd the saturation a little in Lightroom) and Steering Wheel reflection in the sky
My photography lesson this week is not what I had planned to work on. But there is an old saying, “If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans.” Instead of working on photography last week I spent quite a bit of time with relatives . We had two extended family members have unexpected surgery last week (ovarian cancer and heart bypass surgery), so family took precedence.
Have you ever noticed that when some kind of crisis occurs, you become crystal clear about what really matters? For me, all sorts of things fall away in the light of what matters most to me.
Yesterday, as we were driving home from southern Minnesota, I decided to play some more with camera movement, this time in a moving vehicle. I tried slow exposures, fast exposures, different angles, and different subject matter so that’s what I’ll share with you today. How can you practice seeing this week?
Buildings with slow exposure - almost look like waves
Minneapolis Skyline from Interstate 35
Watercolor landscape
Buck Hill Ski Slope South of Minneapolis
The Golden Hour
4 Comments
cavepainter · February 20, 2012 at 5:46 pm
I like the slow exposures. I don’t have a lot of technical knowledge for cameras, but I wonder just how slow it can be and if you could get a landscape reduced down to just land and sky, one color each. Maybe it would be interesting?
lamorm1 · February 20, 2012 at 6:27 pm
It depends upon your camera, how long you can make exposures. My Canon Rebel T2I lets me set up to 30 second exposure time in manual mode. That’s a very long time during daylight hours and probably would result in massive over-exposure of everything. The photos I did with long exposures yesterday were .30 and .40 seconds in length.
danitacahill · February 20, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Fun! I like to do the same thing in the car when my husband is driving.
lamorm1 · February 21, 2012 at 3:10 am
It is fun – and makes the miles go by quickly