Of course, my hand didn’t really freeze, but it hurt enough, when I took my glove off to fix a problem with a lens, that I decided I’d done enough photographing for this outing. Probably not such a great idea »
Archive of journal entries re "Photographing"
Yesterday I was fortunate to accompany Patrick Young to photograph some of Martha Keller’s paintings. In theory I was the photographer’s assistant, but in practice Patrick is so good at this that he did not need much help from me. One whole wall of this room was glass and you can see the challenge that created, »
Some years, like this one, photography can slow down after the drama of all that autumnal show. While in a couple of months these temperatures will be welcomed as warm, when the temperature first starts to cool then we experience it as cold. Add to that overcast, blank, skies, »
I wanted to see how much detail my Voigtlander 20mm lens could pick up when focused at infinity. I went into the field next to our house and pointed up the road, thinking the “neighbor’s” garden would be far enough away for such a wide lens. I tried focusing first on the large tree, middle left. Then I exposed again, this time simply turning the lens to infinity. To my surprise, the focused shot is much sharper, all the way through the scene. It may be that the distance still wasn’t great enough, or just a peculiarity of (my copy of) this lens, but it certainly says to always focus the lens, and never assume. Of course, it is probably also reminding me that DOF goes in front and beyond the plane of focus, and I might need to give thought to exactly what might be found beyond infinity!
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This week we got a couple of days out of Ann Arbor and met with an author in St Joseph. We had hoped to meet with another author in Saugatuck, but schedules never meshed. We had to content ourselves with a hike through the Saugatuck State Park to the »
Of course, I’ve always known that you can use a polarizer to darken the sky. When you are at right angles to the sun. And I knew something of how they could reduce reflections, as in windows or ponds. But I had never taken that to heart and thought »
