Some days go by without making very many images. Professionally, that is. I attempt to make at least a few images every day – I have for two years now, religiously every day.
Then, there are days with loads of photos…
More from the magazine article, of course… still more to come, too!
The image above is not a composite, flash balanced with the sun and the brightness of the screen. Thank goodness for no refresh rate…
But then, there’s class of course:
Yes, class was outside today. I took full advantage of the range of exposures you can have outside instead of the narrow range inside. Freeze motion with fast shutter speeds? How about learn that Sunny/16 ACTUALLY works!?
Oh, and the question: “What is bokeh?”
Whoa… so, that’s what that is…
And this, class is a live-action example of depth of field:
Range in focus at f/16 – the smallest the 50/1.4 will do:
Range in focus at something much wider:
Same lens, equivalent exposure, something a little different in each.
Its so much easier to show this stuff than stand up there and talk at people. Ever since the University of Georgia and some of its forum-style classes, I’ve always loved the learning process outside of the classic “classroom.”
Putting 20 cameras in the hands of 20 students…
Teaching is in a classroom. Learning is what happens after they apply it.
Why not do both at once?
But the day doesn’t just end there… I see the stadium lights coming on from my apartment.
“On a Thursday? Really?” I load up and walk over to the stadium.
We played a team that I had never heard of. And completely obliterated them. Like, it was kind of sad: 75-0. No, that wasn’t a typo.
By the end of the game, I think our sideline was rooting for them to do something. One play, the guy was going for the sideline to take off running through an opening. Everybody thought, “Oh! They might score!” Our guys were following them pretty close, but far enough the other guy still had a change…
…and he tripped and fell down. On his own.
Oh well…
During halftime it was already 40-something to zero and the team just went into the locker room and hung out. I don’t think the coaches said anything. The trainers didn’t have anything to do… one gave me an Oreo.
Anyways, it was something else to shoot today…
…and you can’t send a team away like that feeling any worse than they already did.
Such is football. Such is photography. Such is life.
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.