Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner David Cross! He will be receiving a $50 Abe’s Gift Card good towards his next purchase. Thank you to everybody who submitted and shared their photography!
Feeding Time!
Congratulations to Abe’s Mother’s Day Photo Contest Winner Anne Power
Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner Anne Power! She will be receiving a $50 Abe’s Gift Card good towards her next purchase. Thank you to everybody who submitted and shared their photography!
The Maternal Instinct To Love
Imaging the ISS by Shane Murphy
Imaging the ISS – By Shane Murphy
http://www.shanemurphy.ie
Camera: Canon 5dII Lens: 16-35 f2.8L Settings: 66 sec f2.8 ISO800
Over the last while, I’ve had many requests via Twitter to write a ‘How To’ on imaging the International Space Station [ISS]. So I’ve decided to get the finger out & put a few lines down.
Where to start……
First things first, the most important thing to do is to plan well. Forward planning is vital to any night sky shot, along with a steady tripod and a warm coat. There are quite a few websites and twitter feeds that can help you with your planning. Even though it only takes about an hour and a half for the ISS to complete an orbit of the planet, you could be waiting quite some time under the night skies before the station appears above. The station only appears for a short time [about 1-2 weeks] & then re-appears again many weeks later. This is due to the orbit of the station above earth.
Photography, why? – By Hans De Loof
I started a blog in February 2005, as a sort of experiment, a way of catching up on how websites were created back then, away from the static HTML code from the Internet beginnings. What would that blog be about? I certainly did not a have a business plan, and as it turned out I mostly wrote about the books I read. At the same time, after more than fifteen years of not doing any photography for photography’s sake, there were no more excuses to further ignore the accelerating digital photography revolution. At first I reloaded a couple of batteries in my old analog Nikon F-801 and bought a second hand Nikon film scanner (Coolscan IV). Some old slide film shots I had taken in Greece when I was 17 years old made it first to my photo-blog.
NIKON D200 ISO: 100 Exposure: 1/400 sec Aperture: f/5.6 Focal Length: 17mm Location: Bruges Belgium 2006-05-28
Nailing the Shot by Michael Sargent
Two of the most flattering compliments a photographer can receive are when people say ‘your photograph tells a story’ and when your work invokes a real emotional reaction. It is an incredible thing to witness a tear falling down the face of a newly wedded bride as she looks for the right words to simply say ‘thank you’. If you are ever lucky enough to experience this type of reaction you will understand how difficult it is to express those feelings in written word. That is the power of photography. Read more…
Capturing the Sunset-Tips for Shooting and Editing the Perfect Shot by Michael Marfell
Sunset beach scene with tips on equipment, setting and editing
I lived in Northern California all of my life and found a never ending supply of subject matter to choose from. One of the advantages of living here is I can springboard from the California coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and everything in between within hours. I recently took a drive to one of my favorite photography spots called Rodeo Beach, located on the West side of the Marin Headlands in Northern California – minutes from San Francisco. This beach offers great views of the headlands, fantastic coastal scenes, along with a nice set of Sea Stacks that have been featured in Popular Photography magazine and captured by many Flickr enthusiasts over the years. I’d like to share some of my techniques and editing flows that I used to produce these images that may be helpful for those who may be thinking about heading to the beach for a few sunset shots.
Rodeo Beach – Marin Headlands
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Rodeo Beach – Marin Headlands (Similar shot with some tonal contrast)
With No Voice, They Cannot Speak
With No Voice, They Cannot Speak – By: Alan Cring
It was the same woods I had visited before, a place where few people ever go. I know that because the thick bramble is untrammeled and unmarked by footpaths, and the branches from trees cross each other like wide, unbroken mesh. Even deer would make pathways through the limbs, which are brittle. This place is unusual, and I like it despite a small feeling of unease I have when I am too far in. I cannot describe it well, but it’s there even in the daylight. By the time of long shadows, I hasten to find my way out.
Woodlands are not particularly good for the kind of landscape photography that is my specialty, but on a few occasions I’ve come across a wonderful scene: an open expanse of trees that was, for some reason, just right; a small stream that caught blue sky and sunlight in a pretty color mix; or, on one glorious occasion, an old shack that had once long ago, from what I found inside, been home to a family with children and several pets. Read more…
Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner Devon Thomas Treadwell
Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner Devon Thomas Treadwell! Our contest winner will be receiving a $50 Abe’s Gift Card good towards their next purchase. Thank you to everybody who submitted and shared their photography!
Maggie & Jayden
Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner Eric Golda
Congratulations to Abe’s Photo Contest Winner Eric Golda! He will be receiving a $50 Abe’s Gift Card good towards his next purchase. Thank you to everybody who submitted and shared their photography!
Windsurfing Boards at Lac Bay, Bonaire
Urban Portrait Photography: Capturing Pictures of People Living on the Street by Steve Paxton
Urban Portrait Photography: Capturing Pictures of People Living on the Street
Have you ever considered approaching a stranger and asking permission to take their picture? Urban portrait photography is a variation of street photography. Instead of randomly snapping images of people on the street from a distance, you proactively approach them with the intent of capturing their portrait and life story. For some photographers, the thought of contacting someone they don’t know can be terrifying. That’s what makes urban portrait photography so exhilarating! It forces you to re-think everything you know about photography and apply it in an entirely different way.
As photographers, it’s easy for us to get trapped into a creative rut photographing the same subjects over and over again. It happens to all of us! If you are a landscape photographer, you might get up before sunrise every weekend to catch that perfect, golden light. Sports photographers have their gear ready and position themselves in just the right place on the sidelines to capture one-of-a-kind images of the action. Wedding photographers manage to capture beautiful and romantic photographs despite the chaos that surrounds them. No matter what your field, whether you are a weekend warrior or full time professional, photography can become very routine and leave you looking for more. Read more…
