You Tube and the Photographer
Wouldn’t it be great if you could put a slideshow of your most recent images in your blog? Embedding a video in a blog would involve quite a bit of sophisticated HTML. Another disadvantage is bandwidth. If your blog gets a lot of visitors, downoading a large video file is going to take its toll on your monthly bandwidth allotment. You can however, post a video slideshow at YouTube.com. All you need to do is create a free account and upload some videos. Once you have the video uploaded, it’s a simple matter of playing the video on YouTube, and copying the code from the Embed text field and then pasting it into your blog. Embedding a YouTube video in a blog post is a great way to showcase your work. The following is a slide show that is hosted at YouTube.
Ask Before You Shoot
I saw this crusty character rescuing a rowboat that had obviously been in the water for a long time. I asked if I could take a picture while he worked. After he said yes, I took a couple of pictures. It’s always safer to ask someone if you can take their picture than trying to sneak in a couple of shots. It’s a lot safer too. I edited the image in Lightroom 2 and then used the Silver Efex Pro plugin to convert the image to black and white.
Street Life
I love the gritty look of high speed black and white film. I also enjoy street photography. Street photography at night poses problems. You end up with long exposures which means you’ll get noise in the shadow areas of your image. The Canon EOS 5D MKll does a remarkable job at high ISOs with barely a trace of noise. I shot the following images with a Lenababy Composer with the Creative Aperture Star insert, which equates to f/4.0. This aperture insert creates star wherever there’s an out of focus highlight. I processed the images in Lightroom using the NIK Silver Efex Pro plug-in to emulate the look of Kodak Tri-X black and white film.
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