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Talking with Mike Tabback on KAZM Radio on the Tech Talk Show. We chat about some techniques in photography and some of the new tech that Panasonic is putting into the cameras. 4K Photo Mode is making some new image captures possible that would have been more difficult to photograph than even a few years ago.
Tickled!
When I saw this sign in a local coffee shop in Lewes, Delaware it just got my funny bone.
“Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.”
Love the thought!
Having a camera with you allows you to share fun with friends as well as business.
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob
PS – No children were hurt during the production of this thought. I do not condone nor encourage the feeding of espresso to children or myself if it is too late in the day!
“Off to harass the birds again are you?”
My wife Holly calls it harrassing cause I used to have to get very close to the birds to fill the frame and they often would leave in a snit at being disturbed… I call it photography while I study and capture behavior images. I really enjoy photographing birds. At her parents place which looks over the marsh in Delaware I’ve plenty of subjects.
I was curious as to how the Lumix FZ1000 would perform and I gotta tell ya it ain’t bad at all. Having a 400mm f4.0 lens is quite good. I’m even more impressed with the ability of the digital zoom going to 1600mm. At that zoom range some detail it starts to soften but being able to fill the frame from a long distance is more than worth the trade-off. Here is a sequence to show the range of the camera…
Images made from the same position. To get to the digital zoom of 1600mm you must be in jpeg capture mode.
Still, with proper exposure I’ll take the reach over being able to shoot in RAW.
Osprey doing a flyby of her nest.
If I’m going to have one camera for vacation, or just to have at hand daily – that does almost everything I need – the Lumix FZ1000 is the one.
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob
With a surge of power the plane raced down the runway and charged up into the wild blue yonder. The view from the small porthole of a window led me to ponder about the perspective change the aerial view gives us of this world we live in.
Lines of cars feel like the smallest of ants from 28,000, opps – still climbing, from 30,000 feet according to the latest captain’s report from the cockpit.
Being able to see the paths created by water following through least resistance is thought provoking. The effects of time and that water carving its way through rock and stone that looks – up close – to be extremely strong and unyielding.
Perspective.
Brings us to today’s quote.
“Photography helps people to see.” Berenice Abbott
Aerial view of Arizona desert from 30,000 feet.
I’m sure that in our businesses if we took the ‘arial view’ we’d have a much better time in life. Things that up-close-and-personal seem as unyielding as the rocks will be reveled that if we are as liquid and relentless as the water that has carved the canyons we will prevail. It means working hard but when hitting a bit of a wall rather than banging your head against it see if there’s a way to flow around it or find a small crack and through steady small drips that eventually swell into rivulets, then streams, creeks and rivers we can make our way through.
In what way have you helped someone view the world in a different way?
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob
PS – A woman before her time. Photographer Berenice Abbott
Walking from my favorite restaurant and I spy an absolutely beautiful flower bloom on a cactus. So I stop to shoot a couple frames and move on in the glow of the after dinner bliss… Or, was it the wine?
No matter.
‘Squirrel Moment!’
I know you’ve had this happen.
You think you see something beautiful. On the move you grab a frame thinking you have something to work on later. Turns out you were distracted by the ‘squirrel!’ in the image and failed to look at the whole scene carefully in the frame. Here’s a recent ‘squirrel’ shot from my wanderings.
Man, I almost don’t even want to show you this… In my mind I saw the flowering blooms
and new buds coming on (cue beautiful music)…
The reality of the ‘past prime’ dead flower buds escaped my notice until
I opened the image and viewed it on the computer. “Bummer!”
I think it’s good to share the not so good stuff as well as our treasures so we all know we are in the same boat… Chugging away, trying to create beautiful images, and not always hitting a home run. The usual camera was in play and it did a good job helping me get a nice exposure on the run. It’s not the fault of the Lumix FZ1000 that I can be distracted by a ‘Squirrel Moment”… They can’t all be perfect can they???
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob
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