A stroll down sun flooded streets with a mobile phone.
Equipment
W810i.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
D 191 - End of the ride
Fiat 126p - a licensed vehicle manufactured in Poland with a icon status nowadays. This one has been stuck in a parking for over a month. Probably waiting for someones merciful decision to put it down on a scrapyard.
Equipment
Sony-Ericsson w810i.
D 190 - Nature vs decoration
A sign from the times past. It was one of only a few furniture shops in a town of almost 1 mln people and it had barely any supplies usually. Hurray for centrally planned economy!
Equipment
E-510 with Helios 44-4.
What I learned
I keep seeing those ridiculous trees rising straight from concrete surface with no other green matter but themselves around.
D 189 - It was you, who did this!?
My son not-posing with sunglasses.
Equipment
E-510 with Helios 44-4.
D 188 - I want to ride my motorbike
Picture nicely composed with a prime lens.
Equipment
E-510 with Helios 44-4.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
D 186 - Skew't No.2
Second interior photo with skewed horizon.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
D 185 - Skew't
Accidental shot, really. But I liked it when I checked the photos on the LCD.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
What I learned
My new tool in the photographic arsenal is: twisted perspective. Frames get some extra dynamic when the horizon is far from straight.
D 183 - Half Way There
Abstract composition of a ceiling lamp and a photo on the wall.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
What I learned
So, this is it. It's summer solstice and I am half way through my Project 365.
What do I like about it so far?
It pushed my photography forward and made me shoot some great photos. It helped me explore new areas which I neglected before.
How my photography changed?
Only recently I stopped shooting compulsively. I became more critical about what I photograph. This resulted in not making dozen shots of a single object.
That's a good thing since I used to shoot the same frame many times looking for technical excellence (perfect sharpness, exposure triangle, metering and framing) which gave me several compositionally identical photographs.
Now I circle around a subjects, moving up, down, closer and further. I control myself not to shot an interesting snapshot until I work it out to be a good photograph. If I can't find a satisfactory angle of an interesting object, I force myself to leave it be and don't photograph it at that moment.
This is what I mean by compulsory shooting. I used to think that if I waste a single photographic opportunity I will loose something. No I know that I will truly waste the opportunity if I don't stop and try to make the shot. Whether I press the shutter or not is irrelevant in the long run. I could learn just as much and develop my skills equally if I only walked around with a viewfinder and a light-meter.
Let's imagine a situation when I have my camera holstered and see a funny situation on the street. I grab the camera, turn it on and press the viewfinder to my right eye. I adjust the zoom and check the shutter speed at preset aperture and ISO. Then I tilt and turn the camera a bit to improve the frame and composition. The scene doesn't usually look as good in the camera as it does in 3D but the funny situation won't last forever so I take the not-so-good photo because otherwise the opportunity would be wasted. I end up with a mediocre photo which I copy to my disk and soon forget about it.
That would be just a waste of shutter and disk space. So now I control myself not to take such a photograph. And I loose nothing because of it.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
D 178 - Blinds
Another abandoned building in the neighborhood.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
D 177 - Pimp up my pot
A random family snapshot.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
What I learned
I like the result, how the light worked out. I used built in flash but, using vertical camera orientation i got a slightly unsymmetrical side light with harmonized with side light coming from a window on the right.
Monday, June 14, 2010
D 176 - Pretty far, dude...
Some guys were filming capoeira on the roof. It was raining most of the time and they stayed there for hours. Those two took a cigarette break.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD4015.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
D 175 - Giraffes
Not cows.
Equipment
E-510 with ZD1442.
RAW edited in Lightroom.
What I learned
I slowly learn gravity of the term 'standard zoom' lens. It could be called: 'between 80-99% of your photographs' lens. Unless you are struck with some specific kind of photography like macro or astro. Even if you are, than if you shoot in the field, you will find yourself eventually drifting into those percentages.
Just try to click "ZD1442" tag under the post. Divide it by 175 and you will see what fraction of my photos have been taken by the standard zoom since December.
Hmmm... I did that and I only got 50%, but the figures would be correct for last few weeks. Exactly 83,3%.
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