Category: Photography

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.

Digital Photography Composition 101

More and more people start to realize that with the recent progress of digital photography and increasing number of chip appliances like phone cameras, key ring cameras, really good point and shoot cameras, etc there should be some training available for all those people. Thousands if not millions of below average images are getting dumped into the web each day, and yours truly is taking part in all that. :)

So there is this story at Slashdot, which links to an article that has a number of links to other places – all fast and convenient for educating yourself about the basics of photography. Comments to this Slashdot submission are also useful (for links like this and this), so take a minute and flip through them.

Yet more pictures to enjoy

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An excellent collection of images titled “Best Pictures of 2003” (sample on the left) is here. Few images, but very spectacular.

Earth Science Picture of the Day – daily updated web site with high quality images devoted to Earth’s nature wonders (sample on the right). Archives are available upto year 2000. Much to see.

And in order to desaturate some of those excellent colors, here is a website devoted to black and white photography of New York and London.

Enjoy.

WRC 2004 Cyprus stage pictures

Special Stage 3Special Stage 5I’ve just uploaded pictures from the two special stages that I’ve been to today. Enjoy – Special Stage 3 and Special Stage 5

I was shooting cars in aperture priority (Av) mode with aperture set to 8.0 or 9.0. After closer inspection on the big screen it seems that these aperture values are a bit too small. I will try with a slighter bigger settings tomorrow.

I also have both B&W polarizer and lens hood on. Polarizer does improve the images a lot. Lens hood protects mostly from the dust which there is an excess of. :) Light conditions still seem a bit tough to me. Even the afterlunch sun is very bright giving harsh shadows. Shadows from trees along the stages make it look kind of stripy (shadow, no shadow, shadow, no shadow…). On-camera flash is not strong enough to fill the shadows around the car and good viewpoints are hard to come up with considering the safety guards, spectators, stage track shapes and locations, and my ignorance. :) More to shoot tomorrow…

WRC – Cyprus Rally 2004 photos

Safety carI’ve started the photoalbum where I’ll post all the pictures from WRC 2004 Cyprus Rally. Check them out here. There isn’t much yet, since the rally opens in two days from now. But there will be. I will aslo split pictures into subalbums for your convenience. :)

Meanwhile, I’ve got a Rally Pass for myself. :)

Photojournalism

I’ve stambled across an interesting site – DigitalJournalist.org/. It is a monthly web magazine about digital journalism. There are a lot of articles and photographs to enjoy. I particularly liked this article from a September 1999 issue about Russian photojournalism of today. There are some nice comparisons to the Soviet era and interesting parallels with American photojournalism.

There are also a bunch of journalism photographs at AmercianPhotoJournalist.com, but the site requires registration for almost any action. Still it is possible to see profiles of registered users with their pictures. Nice.