20. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

The great American photographer Edward Weston photographed vegetables and the human body. He had a great eye for compositions and curves. He inspired me to photograph vegetables and other things like these leaves that I carefully arranged on my lightbox. The curve of the main leaf dominates the picture. It is the largest leaf, it is in focus and it is the only leaf with a stem. The dark front leaf on the left creates a shadow on the main leaf and so does the leaf in the background. In the left top corner is a small portion of another leaf that minimizes the white negative space. Without that little part of the leaf the white space would become too dominant.

Enjoy and be creative with your images!

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19. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

I am photographing fall foliage the last few days. The rain brought again a huge change. There are many trees now that have just a few leaves left and others that have quite a lot still. This creates an opportunity for a beautiful out of focus background and a single leaf.  Camera setting: 135mm, f5.6, 1/125 sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy!

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18. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

I photographed this carnation using my lightbox and a light coming from the right. As always I shot several times changing the aperture mode in order to get the best possible depth of field. Camera setting: Macro setting, f11, 1/6 sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy!

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17. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

This is another exercise I am considering for my new Photoshop Class in February. I photographed these boys on Halloween using the beautiful colored sunset as my back drop.

Enjoy!

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16. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

I am preparing a new Photoshop Boot camp. I am creating several exercises and I hope I have everything ready by January 2009. We will create compositions, working with layers and having quite some fun. Enjoy this creation!

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15. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

Photographing pets is a lot of fun. You need a little bit of knowledge and patience combined with a good portion of luck to get the image you want. I was lucky with these two dogs. They were well behaved and a lot of fun. Camera setting: F 5.6, 1/250sec., ISO 125, strobe light.

Enjoy!

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14. November 2009 by David.

Sometime back I was on my way to Yosemite taking Highway 140 along the Merced River and noticed the rivers edge was covered with frost. It actually looked like it was covered with snow. This was taken with a point and shoot camera using the macro setting. There isn’t a bad season for photographs in Yosemite and that goes for the trip up there as well.

Keep clicking

Dave

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13. November 2009 by David.

While setting up our Photo Clubs annual Christmas Photo Shoot I was testing the flash sync to make sure it worked ok. I had to make a few adjustments and when I looked at my test shots this one caught my eye. For some reason the camera data does not show the shutter speed but I would guess it was a couple of seconds, F11 at ISO 200, definitely not tripod mounted.

Keep clicking

Dave

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13. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

I am not 100% sure what intrigued me to photograph the bridge. It reminded me of a picture that another member of our Photo Club took around Mariposa, CA where she photographed an old building surrounded by branches and leaves. I think for me it just was the right amount of leaves that did not fully cover the bridge and the fall color that determine the mood of the image. I always wonder what kind of thoughts go into a composition and what kind of response an image creates. I just hope you enjoy this one. Camera setting: 28mm, f18, 0.6 sec., ISO 100 tripod mounted.

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12. November 2009 by Friedhelm.

We went back to Yosemite yesterday. The peak of the fall foliage is over and it was overcast most of the day. This call for a different kind of photography. No puffy clouds, more gray in gray and less people. We hiked from the little chapel towards Bridalveil fall when I started photographing this tree. The tree and the rock in front of it intrigued me. I slightly overexposed the shot because I wanted to see some detail on the tree. In addition I created five tif files in post production that I combined to this final almost surreal image. Camera setting: 15-30mm lens, f16, 0.4 sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy!

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