Hurricane Sandy hits Ohio!  Water, water everywhere.  Mill Creek Park's infamous "Old Mill" located in Youngstown, Ohio, the waterfall is usually much smaller and less wild. Today's picture taking included trying to overcome overcast skies while huddle under a bridge so the equipment would not get wet.  Here the ribbons of water blend into silken flows, cascading over the falls. 

The mill stands proud as it is inundated with water from the rains of Hurricane Sandy.

This particular picture is a favorite and has been edited many times.  After researching information on "sharpening" the gourds now POP off of the page.  Every professional attains a level of knowledge then gets comfortable, many are satisfied with their knowledge base.  For some, there are always new things to learn, one opinion or tip, whether camera settings or editing software skills, that can lead to a whole new archive of photographs.  "Gourds" is far from perfect, however it is beginning to get the "feel" that the eye and heart felt the day it was taken.  Gnarls on the gourds are starting to stand out as they did on the actual gourds, deep oranges and dark greens are anchoring the bright yellows and splashes of white in the stems.  This picture, when finished must get the viewer to feel autumn!

A sunny, autumn day, a lake, an arch bridge, beautiful leaves...reflections of beauty.  This sunny day could not be controlled by any of the filters on hand, brightness everywhere.  Shooting in the midday sun is an issue faced everyday by photographers, and the problem can be solved if the sun is used to enhance the picture.  Look closely to what the sun does to the arch bridge's stones...you can see how alive they become when viewed under bright sunlight!

Does this look like PACMAN!  The original picture focuses on a beautiful tree, full of yellow leaves that fell to the ground with every gentle breeze.  The quality of the picture is enhanced by the contrasting colors of blue and yellow.  Upon closer review, the wonderful green veins, faintly visible in the leaf enhances the blue and yellow.  Using a common lens to imitate macrophotography adds depth to every picture and the background leaf is just as interesting with the same blue holes.

Kim Llewellyn Weitzman Photography: Just a picture today...

Kim Llewellyn Weitzman Photography: Just a picture today...: ...let me know what feelings you feel, post a comment.  Constructive critiques are welcomed!  Tomorrow I will share what impact this pictu...

Just a picture today...

...let me know what feelings you feel, post a comment.  Constructive critiques are welcomed!  Tomorrow I will share what impact this picture had on me, you might be surprised.

Cool blue fuzzy fleeting white

Wisps of jet streams blown across a fall blue sky interject themselves, while fuzzy white clouds frame the picture.  The balance of blue and white allows the viewer to feel cooled and warm fuzzies simultaneously.  Even while the  puff clouds are scattered throughout the picture, the lines of blown jet streams connects the "whole" of the picture.  Good picture composition depends on the interaction of the colors within the picture and fewer colors increases the necessity that those colors speak loudly.

Continuing with the "feeling photography" theme, this picture feels fairy taleish, the viewer could just take off and fly in the clouds, floating softly with the wisps and puffs. 

 



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Photography is not always about technique, measurements, settings, and equipment.  A great picture can occur at the end of an old instamatic camera, a cell phone, or an expensive camera.  Equipment is not the end all be all of photography.  The photographer's eye, that ability to "see" a picture, is most of the foundation of a great photograph, and that eye is not simply the mechanism that sees the subject and shoots it, it is also the heart of the photographer.  A great photographer feels the picture at the very instant the eye ventures onto a subject.  At times a photographer can feel the subject and have the time to set up equipment, check settings, find the best placement, and snap the picture.  At other times the photographer must have camera in hand because feeling the picture may only last for a split second.  "BikeTrailBiker" is an example of the later.  

 

While out taking pictures of clouds in a sky filled with storm, this gentleman came by on his bike, bid a good day, and rode off.  In an instant the camera came to the eye and... 

 

What makes this a good picture is not the correct camera settings or photo editing software, it is the thoughts that the picture elicits from those that stop and look at the red shirt, ponder the thoughts of the rider, question the path to be taken, or when the last view of the bike disappears into the leaves of the trees ahead.  This picture has a present and a future, where the rider is and where he is going, the viewer walks away wondering...

 

If my picture can make a viewer think about "what happened" then it is a great picture.