I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.
I think that having people portraits appearing in the “Picture of the day” is a good thing sometimes. Today I’ve got a really quick shot that I managed not to screw up seriously. It captured the mood nicely.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-02-04_POTD
The Children of Iraq is an amazing collection of journalistic photographs from Iraq that display how “lucky” the kids are out there. Government and military people should be shown pictures like these more often.
If you are afraid blood, broken bodies, and other physically disturbing images, than just go through the first half or so. It gets really ugly after that.
A couple of days ago I went to the automatic car wash. Waiting inside, I noticed the aquarium with a bunch of turtles. I had time, great subjects, and the camera with me. The only thing missing was the light. I made about 10 shots and only this one came out more or less OK.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-02-03_POTD
I came across an interesting photography project – The Mirror Project. Participants photograph their own reflection in the mirror. Sounds simple? Well, it’s not as simple as it might seem. What they do is that they make regular themes, like on any other photography website. For example, there you’ll find your “signs” gallery. All pictures in that gallery will include the reflection of the photographer as well as some sign. Same goes for other galleries.
These people must be really creative, because I can think of about 2 ways only to photograph my reflection in the mirror…
This photography course is by far the best course I’ve seen on the web. It goes beyond the standard explanations of rule of thirds, and aperture vs. shutter speeds. The course consists of 10 lessons with discussion board attached to all of them for you to read other people’s comments or to ask your question. Great stuff!