Somewhere I missed the details about the smoke shot. Can someone share them with me, please? I love - as in obsessive - trying to capture smoke. You know that first exhale from the bong that just hangs in space in front of you, swirling and dancing? Or the tendril of smoke from the tip of a joint? Yeah.....that. Tell me that's what you're looking for.
I capture mine, as I do everything else in my life, on the wings of inspiration, and I've come up with a few here and there.
Cropping and deleting..... I'm pretty ruthless when I'm stalking the perfect photo for a post. Take the shot, pull it up, crop the hell out of it to see what of greatest interest was captured, save that, move on. If it doesn't meet my standards I delete it immediately. I never manually delete the photos in my phone from the deleted file - I made that mistake only twice - so I know I have at least 28 days to go fishing for one I tossed back and rethink the decision. I take a lot of pictures, and when I'm done I let them all go. Once I've put them into the gallery I delete them from the main file.
I'm a journalist, not a photographer. The post is my artwork, all of it. The narration, the formatting, and most of all, the visual stimulation that keeps them coming back for more.
My daughter laughs to watch me working with the camera, muttering to myself as I go, completely lost in the process. I'm hunting, and I'm not really happy until I've found the shot that communicated the thought. If you follow my work, you get the true sense that I'm working in real time. If I take shots today and don't get them posted I usually won't use them. I'll take fresh pictures. If I'm posting about a plant that I'm covering in three or four different threads I try to take new pictures for each.
There are too many threads to do that with now, but I still try.
That almost manic approach to the art of journalling has fine-tuned my senses. The artist gets free reign when I go photo hunting. And cropping is done on almost every picture posted. If I shoot too close I have nowhere to play.
I capture mine, as I do everything else in my life, on the wings of inspiration, and I've come up with a few here and there.
Cropping and deleting..... I'm pretty ruthless when I'm stalking the perfect photo for a post. Take the shot, pull it up, crop the hell out of it to see what of greatest interest was captured, save that, move on. If it doesn't meet my standards I delete it immediately. I never manually delete the photos in my phone from the deleted file - I made that mistake only twice - so I know I have at least 28 days to go fishing for one I tossed back and rethink the decision. I take a lot of pictures, and when I'm done I let them all go. Once I've put them into the gallery I delete them from the main file.
I'm a journalist, not a photographer. The post is my artwork, all of it. The narration, the formatting, and most of all, the visual stimulation that keeps them coming back for more.
My daughter laughs to watch me working with the camera, muttering to myself as I go, completely lost in the process. I'm hunting, and I'm not really happy until I've found the shot that communicated the thought. If you follow my work, you get the true sense that I'm working in real time. If I take shots today and don't get them posted I usually won't use them. I'll take fresh pictures. If I'm posting about a plant that I'm covering in three or four different threads I try to take new pictures for each.
There are too many threads to do that with now, but I still try.
That almost manic approach to the art of journalling has fine-tuned my senses. The artist gets free reign when I go photo hunting. And cropping is done on almost every picture posted. If I shoot too close I have nowhere to play.
