2-7-2014 It snowed tonight

I really enjoyed watching the Opening Ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics. After they were over I stepped out on the porch and everything was covered in snow.

I decided to go walk the campus because I knew it would be beautiful and I was not disappointed. All photos taken with Fuji X100s and processed with Snapseed on my iPad.

9-16-2013 Teaching Photography

 I do love teaching my Basic Photography class at Harding University.  This photo is at the President's house as I was there waiting for George Will to show up for a reception.  I saw this light and earlier in the day I had lectured on quality and direction of light.  This is hard backlight.  I think my students sometimes wonder why recognizing things like the lighting is important but it is part of the language of photography and if you don't speak lighting you will never be much of a photographer.

 I love using the Snapseed App to adjust my iPhone images and I always have a hard time deciding between straight b&w and warm toned b&w.

165/365 Leica M8 or iPhone 5

06-14-2013

 I have always liked Andreas Feininger's portrait with his Leica.  Here is my variation with Noah Darnell's Leica.

 I liked the layers of warm tones  and textures.

I love the Leica starburst treatment of the sun.  The Magnolia bloom is not bad either.  The Leica 35mm  F2.5 and its .7meter close focus distance makes for some creative compositions since filling the frame is not an option.

 Magnolia bloom detail with the iPhone 5.

 Magnolia profile.

iPhone interpretation of the flowers via the Hipstamatic app and a little enhancing with Snapseed.

111/365 Photo App Migration

4-21-2013

For the past couple of years I have used the Camera+ App as my default camera and it is a great App.  Lately, I have been shooting with the Hipstamatic App and I love the variations it gives me via different lenses and films within the App.  The Achilles Heel of the App is its terrible autofocus performance.  If you get a photo in focus it is awesome and I love shooting in square format and not having to crop after the fact.  I also have been using Snapseed to fine tune the images.  If I could only have one processing app Snapseed would definitely it.

For the record I shoot most of my photos for this blog with the iPhone 5.

5 seconds or 15 seconds.......it makes a difference

 5 seconds  F8  ISO 200

15 seconds  F8  ISO 200 +  2stops of digital neutral density

I shot both of these shots while I was out shooting with my Advanced Photography Students.  I used a Canon G11 p&s camera and its cool digital neutral density filter.  I love how the light sources star out with the smaller aperture and the extra 10 seconds did make a bigger difference in the water smoothness than I thought it would.

Just for fun I grunged out a b&w version with the Snapseed App on my computer.  I also use the iPhone version of Snapseed.