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Thank you to our co-hosts: We are so thrilled to be supporting our local United Way and giving everyone a chance to be a part of the Tioga County community. Check out the Heads Up Tioga event page on Facebook! Mark your calendars for this Friday and Saturday, and get ready to be the face of Tioga County! Julie and Ike bought and have been renovating the historic building, which was in need of repair. They are on their way to opening the inn during this upcoming holiday season.
As Julie puts it: The furnishings will be a mix of old and new with plenty of technology mixed in. We will have on-site catering available for intimate parties and weddings. She ran on a national ticket for Presidency twice in and and stood for equal rights for all people. It moves me to tears, something very rare while working behind my lens! Even more exciting, Logan has brought his brother-in-law Adam R.
Coney on board as house designer, which puts them on the path of custom planting! MacKenzie is one of my many athletic seniors this year, and I really love her style! An interview with Cardiff provided the information needed to make long-term maintenance decisions. It also describes the promotional tactics employed, reports website statistics, records technical issues encountered, and forecasts possible crashes or bugs. Housed at the Gallery, this document is available to museum employees when questions or problems concerning Eyes of Laura arise. The instruction document notes the following technical problems that have occurred with Eyes of Laura:.
The guide details ways to overcome these issues, including software implementation to avoid computer crashes and instructions for museum technicians to reboot and reset computer servers and preset imagery. The aim is to minimize downtime for users. In-house maintenance procedures have been executed, and continue to be executed, in order to maintain this functionality success rate:.
While maintenance has helped to sustain the continuous operation of Eyes of Laura , Cardiff also suggested ways in which the artwork could be preserved, catalogued and documented in the future:. Cardiff also specifies that the artwork should not be displayed in the Vancouver Art Gallery or in any other art institution, unless the institution is located in an area where access to a high-speed Internet connection is unavailable or uncommon in homes;.
Cardiff simply stipulates that the highest quality equipment is to be used in future. Newer, updated versions of the components may be purchased and incorporated, as long as they function in the same ways e. The video surveillance camera should be physically installed as close as possible to its original location;. Cardiff suggests these options: Cardiff proposes that Gallery technicians monitor the artwork on a regular basis, including verifying the proper working of the video surveillance camera, the website and the video streaming server.
If any problems occur, they should be first documented, and then repaired;. On the one hand, the eventual obsolescence of the technology employed to create the website and of the architecture and fashion featured in the video footage contributes to her ultimate vision of Eyes of Laura as a video documentation: On the other hand, as long as the concept and content of the artwork are rendered similar to their original, she favours recapturing the video footage and upgrading the technological components to their contemporary equivalent to keep the artwork functioning properly.
Get down on your knees or stomach. I had this idea for a cute photo, but shooting from above made for a boring shot.
So, I changed my perspective and got a much more interesting photo as the result. Don't just stop after your first try. What if ants are crawling across your picnic blanket to devour your peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Now is a good time to practice humility. Lie down on the ground. Get down and see what they do.
Feet are a great subject. Have you considered taking pictures of a building being newly constructed in the spring?
Why not make your picture more interesting by changing your perspective and looking at the same scene with construction worker's muddy boots and lower legs framing your shot? It's good to get both! You'll need different ones for different occasions. Which photo would you choose? When you spot a fun picture idea, play around with the possibilities. Dawn sunrise and dusk sunset often have the best light for outdoor photography.
Know ahead of time when and where the sun will rise and set.
If you know this, you will be able to plan when and where to be to get the best shots. The cool colors of early morning bring out the coldness of the frost in this picture. Backlighting this soybean pod at sunset highlights its beautiful feathery-ness. Bad weather is often great for exciting pictures. If you include the sky, it needs to look interesting. Plan ahead for great light. Keep a list of places or things and what kind of lighting you think would suit them best. To refresh your memory, review Lesson 7 on the kinds of light.
We can learn a lot from the masters in photography. Here is what some of them say about light. Read the following eye-opening statements and then think about how to take this knowledge and apply it to your photography. Your photography will improve drastically! I search for when the perfect light is right and everything is working earthbound to match with it. A minute — and sometimes mere seconds- can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
While you have two eyes to take in a scene, the camera is limited to one. While your eye and mind can balance the details in highlight and shadow, you may find your camera and film unable to record these details as you perceive them with your eye. Understanding the limitations and strengths of your camera equipment and film are the first steps toward taking consistently better photographs.
I am there because my photography has led me there through an understanding of the nuances of mountain light. Without an understanding of language, combined with imagination and intuition, occasional strings of lyrical words are little more than intermittent accidents. So are photographs made without understanding the language of light.
Beyond those is a selective emphasis that sets them apart.
Natural forms lose much of their significance when taken out of context, yet many photographers isolate single subjects in what I believe is a misguided quest for simplicity. Of far more importance is harmony, that is, combining the parts into a whole to create a clear message. Side light brings out texture — and blemishes too! Good portraits often use something in between front lighting and side lighting. Highlights and shadows add depth and interest — just make sure there is detail in both! Three things that are needed to make a great photograph: Superb light An interesting subject Dynamic composition.
We will be talking about the first component, light, in the next two lessons. Light is very important to photography, but so often is taken for granted. If we can learn how to use light to our advantage, we will have come a long way. Understanding light is critical when creating amazing photography. We will be talking about five kinds of light in this lesson:.
The hard, harsh light of midday is the least flattering kind of light. When the sun is low in the sky, we can use side lighting. Side lighting showcases the many textures in the world around us. Side lighting is MUCH more interesting than the harsh light at noon or the flat light we get if we shoot with the sun coming from behind us.
Backlighting your subject is a wonderful way to use light. Try including the sun in the photo or, try using a tree, cloud, person, or flower to cover the sun. Since the camera is often fooled into making the picture too light and overexposed when bright sky or the sun is in the picture, remember to use exposure compensation!
An example of Diffused light would be the kind of light we get on a cloudy day. Diffused light is great for close-ups and pictures with no sky in them. The super saturated colors you are able to get in this light make flowers and fall leaves look great. This is an example of the soft, diffused light on a cloudy day. It can be great for portraits. Reflected light is a fun kind of light to search for.
Look for it in water, canyons, puddles, ice, and many other places. So, there you have it - the 5 types of light! Why not look for each of these kinds of light during this next week?
Meet Laura, a senior at Owego Free Academy! I had a A huge thank you to Laura for a great senior session with The Camera's Eye!. Meet Laura, a senior at Owego Free Academy! I had a blast shooting with her, her mom, and her friend Maria. For her senior session.
It'll be good practice and you'll gain a new appreciation for the beauty and variety of the ever-changing light around us. God designed it all! Random chance would never have a chance to create something so absolutely amazing as our world! There are 3 basic variables that are part of the process of taking a picture.
The last variable we will talk about is the ISO. Can you remember waaay back to the film days before basically everything went digital? Anyway, when people bought their film, they had to choose what light sensitivity they wanted — what ISO number to choose. The higher the number, the more sensitive the film was to the light. People chose a higher speed film such as ISO for use indoors and bought a lower speed film like ISO to use outside.
The lower the ISO speed, the better the quality and the less grainy or noisy the picture is. You can see the grain and noise, can't you? The picture details are much cleaner and clearer in this shot. Here is the total picture. The more you spend to buy a camera, the better it will perform at higher ISO numbers.
Point and shoot cameras are especially prone to noise and grain, even when the ISO number is only sort of high! You can change any one of these and the exposure will change the picture will turn out lighter or darker if the camera is set to M manual mode. For the other camera modes, the camera compensates for the changes you make to any of these settings.
Look at the three variables - aperture number, shutter speed, and ISO number - as if they are 3 crucial ingredients in a cake. If you change one of them the picture will turn out differently. By having the ISO number at instead of , I could raise the shutter speed. Even though the settings are different, the picture can still turn out basically the same. The only difference is the lower quality of the one that was taken at ISO When an 8x10 print is made of each image, the difference in quality is much more apparent.
This meant that the shutter speed or ISO number had to change also. Do you see in these pictures that in order to get the same exposure same brightness of the image if I change the aperture, the shutter speed changes.
If I change the shutter speed, the aperture changes too. If I change the ISO, either the shutter speed or the aperture or both have to change also. This depends on what you want the final picture to look like. Camera Mode to use: Tv time value — controls the shutter speed. In your camera, the shutter speeds looks something like this: Regularly, the goal when taking pictures is to freeze a moment in time forever.
If the room is dark or the lights are dim, the camera will often set a slow shutter speed, motion will not be frozen, and you will be left with a blurry picture and only a mental picture of how cute baby Anna Marie or little Timmy looked. There are two types of motion that have to be compensated for: Bracing your hands or camera against something solid or using a tripod also helps reduce or eliminate blurriness from your hand movements. Remember that what is needed to fix the blur of a dog running past you is a high shutter speed. When photographing water, you have a choice to make.
For these fun shots, the girl or boy had to stand VERY still for several seconds and then duck out of the picture quickly at my signal for the rest of the exposure time the camera was on a tripod. The effect turns out different every time!
If needed, the faces can be lit with a weak flash light from off to the side of the camera, but be careful not to hurt their eyes! I took these pictures several years ago when I was first learning to control my shutter speed. In this photo, I wanted to take a picture of this tiny toy in a dramatic way. So, I picked up a flashlight and BAM! I had dramatic lighting. All I had to do was set the camera on a solid surface, set the 2 second delay timer, and keep the flashlight shining on the truck. One other important point: Here, I set my exposure compensation to Go out and test your knowledge!
He is not here: I hope you all had a meaningful Resurrection Sunday!