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Summer Shooting

July 24th, 2012

Summer Shooting

While summer is a great time for photography, it is not without its challenges. I love all of the abundant wildlife, flowers blooming and summer sights, but to get unusual or arresting photos, a photographer has to cover a lot of ground and use her best judgment as to what time of day is best. Usually wildlife can be seen early morning and late afternoon or evening. That gives us, photographers, a great deal of time to work with. Sunny days and middays can create harsh light while evenings and mornings can be better light sources.

I have recently shot photos in the rain and when the sky is more overcast.The photo of the Chesapeake Bay you see accompanying this blog was taken around 10 AM. Just a hour later the clouds had dissipated some, giving the sky a much less dramatic look. A new photo on my website shows Blackwater Refuge in the early morning mist. I love these kinds of photos where the light is soft and the morning fog has not yet burned off.

So while summer is a fun time for photography, the long days give us just enough options where we as photographers need to be choosy.

How It all Started

July 10th, 2012

How It all Started

Like many budding photographers, I started when my parents gave me a Kodak Instamatic. I took pictures of everything, but mostly of my friends and my cat. Like every young photographer with a film camera, I depended on my parents to develop the film. I still have all of those prints, but sadly not the negatives.Then I bought my own 110 camera. Remember those? The tiniest negatives, and I do have some of those after all these years, but I cannot scan them like the 35mm negatives. Arghh!

Finally when I was 18 I purchased my own 35mm Rollei. Was I excited. Now I had to learn how to use a "real" camera. Mostly my lessons were from trial and error or pointers from fellow photographers. I soon graduated to another camera, the Minolta, and then to the Nikon 2002 and continued with film 35mm until 2004, taking photos of just about anything and everything, especially when I traveled. Landscapes, nature, historic sites, and wildlife being my favorite shots. And cats too, of course.

In 2004, I finally took the plunge into digital photography, but with a point and shoot. In those "early" days of digital, cameras were expensive and DSLRs were not yet developed well. But last year, I decided I needed more creativity with my photography and took the leap and bought a D7000. I have begun to take hands-on classes too in the past year as I want to push what I can do even further. The classes, while helping me technically, really are an advantage to me because I get ideas from other photographers. I shorten my learning curve by copying some of their techniques and ideas. So for the first time since I began shooting with an Instamatic, I have a community of fellow photographers that love the same thing I do, And that's the best part.

The photos you see on this site are taken with both a digital point and shoot and the Nikon D7000.

The photo accompanying this blog is me at 6 months. And no, I did not take this one.

 

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