September 23, 2012. SurfTech 14-0 Bark Expedition TufLite SUP (stand up paddleboard) with a GoPro Hero camera mounted. Beaver Pond in Arapaho Natural Area near Fort Fort Collins.
Related posts:
Stand Up and Paddle – Trying Boardworks Raven in Colorado
Colorado River 2011 Race Dominated by SUPs (Stand-Up Paddlers)
Shane Perrin on His Stand Up Paddling Board at the Start of 2012 Missouri River 340 Race
It is always a pleasure to talk to a person who is a true fan of his occupation. Last week I was lucky enough to speak to Igor Klimov – a still-life (and not only) photographer from Tallinn, Estonia. His photographs speak for themselves – and if I would need to describe his works with one single word, it would Continue Reading
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September 25, 2012. Paddling SurfTech 14-0 Bark Expedition TufLite SUP in the fall scenery of Beaver Pond in Arapaho Natural Area near Fort Fort Collins. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF 24-105mm lens on a tripod with TC80N3 Timer Remote Control.
This was my third session with the paddleboard on Beaver Pond. I took my SLR camera and a tripod for a short ride and enjoyed a fall scenery.
Related posts:
A New Fish in Beaver Pond
Stand Up and Paddle – Trying Boardworks Raven in Colorado
Colorado River 2011 Race Dominated by SUPs (Stand-Up Paddlers)
Shane Perrin on His Stand Up Paddling Board at the Start of 2012 Missouri River 340 Race
Today we’re going to talk to a photographer whose creativity and capacity for work astonishes at first sight. So, please welcome Tony Sweet. He’s a many-sided personality who has achieved success in various spheres of life (that includes music, lectureship, photography, authoring). He’s one of these great guys that you would call a self-made man. And this experience is reflected Continue Reading
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September 30, 2012. To SUP ot not to SUP? Paddling SurfTech 14-0 Bark Expedition SUP in Riverbend Ponds Natural Area. Camera: GoPro Hero.
Starting from the parking lot on Cairnes St (off Timberline, left shore of the Poudre River) it is possible to paddle a loop through three small ponds with one very short portage and one passing under low walk board (on the picture above). The smallest Turtle Pond is amazing – a crystal clear water with a lot underwater vegetation. It is one of my favorite photography spots in Fort Collins. That long walk board appears in many of my pictures.
Related posts:
Winter at Riverbend Ponds Natural Area, Fort Collins, Colorado
Speed Test of Alpacka Yukon Packraft
Bark Expedition Stand Up Paddleboard in Fall Scenery
Appreciation of a portrait photo greatly depends on a viewer himself. If a lady looks at her own photograph, she seeks some imperfections she thinks she’s got, and estimates, how good a photographer is at concealing them. If you are a photographer looking at an image made by other photographer, you will, consciously or subconsciously inspect it for technical quality, Continue Reading
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One of the things that I dislike about Flickr’s Explore algorithm is that it shows me so many photos that I’m not interested in. It seems like every time I go there I end up with a hodgepodge of photos that I dislike — overwatermarked, overcooked, etc. I’ve always been interested in is a version of Explore that would filter out everyone on Flickr except for my contacts. Over the years I’ve managed both my contacts and friends/family list to my own personal taste as a consumer of photography.
The most popular way to view your contacts’ photos of course is on the “Photos From Your Contacts” page. This page shows you the last 1 or 5 (you choose) photos by your contacts or friends/family (again you choose). So you basically have four different ways to view your contacts’ photos, but all four are by recency only.
Sometimes you might want to look at photos by your contacts in ways other than recency. Over the years I’ve added a ton of people as contacts — so many in fact that there is just no way that I can keep up with every single photo every single contact posts every single day. So instead of the recency view I’ve been looking for other ways that I can look at my contacts’ photos.
After playing around with Flickr’s advanced search page this weekend, I figured out how I can view my contacts’ photos by interestingness instead of only recency. This is helpful if you want to see what are the best (most popular) photos by your contacts over past period of times. Flickr’s interestingness algorithm gives every photo on flickr a hidden internal score. This score is based on lots of factors including how many favorites a photo gets, how many comments a photo gets, tags, where it’s posted on the web outside of Flickr, etc. The basic premise though is that the more activity a photo receives the more interesting a photo might be.
Advanced search on Flickr lets you customize your search criteria and seems to even work with empty search queries (which seem to return all photos). You can customize the search page to only search using your contacts photos and you can customize it by past time periods. So if you want to run through all of your contacts’ photos by the last day, week, month, etc. and have them ranked by the most popular photos to see if you’ve missed any great photos you can do that using this page.
The way Flickr returns photos in search is a little clunky and is not as elegant as the justified view for photos on your contacts most recent photo page, but I bet search results on Flickr end up with a justified view at some point in the future as well. A photo wall that you can favorite from is a much superior/engaging layout after all.
Anyways, these links below should work for you as well and allow you to see the most popular photos by your contacts and friends/family over previous time periods. If you command/click (Mac) on a thumbnail it will open it in another window and then you can just tab through these windows to fave/comment/view larger any of the photos you have an interest in.
Most Interesting Photos by Your Contacts September 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Friends/Family September 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Contacts August 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Friends/Family August 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Contacts July 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Friends/Family July 2012
Most Interesting Photos by Your Friends/Family YTD
Most Interesting Photos by Your Contacts YTD
For some reason, some searches using empty queries on flickr for earlier time spans (like all of 2011) produced no photos for me, so something must have changed with how Flickr handles empty queries after 2011.
I’m not sure how long you’ve been able to search empty queries from the advanced search page. I tried to go use the wayback machine at the Internet archive to see what this page looked like in the past but apparently Flickr is blocking the internet archive from indexing this page (and other pages as well, including one specific group, which seemed odd).
The main difference between the camera and the your eye is focus. Your eye has a nearly unlimited depth of field, whereas a camera does not. It makes it practically impossible for a camera lens to truly capture what can be seen with the human eye. Instead of fighting this limitation, many photographers choose to embrace it, making a feature Continue Reading
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We all love our crisp, tack-sharp images, especially when it comes to wedding and portrait photography. This is why we have a tenancy to always think faster in terms of faster lenses and faster shutter speeds to freeze the motion.
But while most images should be captured at motion-freezing shutter speeds, it’s important to explore creativity in all aspects of our photography, including motion blur and exposing for darker scenes. Movement is beautiful, interesting, and even powerful. Movement is action; and action can help improve an ordinary image. For a few select images, consider dropping the shutters to create certain effects.
Here are a few examples of slow shutter speeds in wedding and engagement photography.
… to capture movement of waves
… to capture movement of trains or other large objects
… to capture movement of surrounding people
… to capture detail in dark scenes
… to capture streaks of light
The point of this article isn’t to get into the how-to’s of each shot but to hopefully inspire you to think outside the box and experiment with slower shutter speeds to add interest and action to your scenes. Happy shooting! Of course, we welcome your comments below.
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These images are post produced using the SLR Lounge Lightroom Presets and are copyright Lin and Jirsa, Los Angeles Wedding Photographers.
