Tag Archives: Outdoors
Inspiration is a Process
We all want to become better at this craft. So why is it that so many of us only take photos when we “feel inspired”? If you follow A Lesser Photographer then you may have already read this. Inspiration doesn’t “strike.” Inspiration is scheduled. I would add that inspiration is a process. Think about the …
Building Blocks
I often struggle to find confidence with photography. I am afraid that if I shoot something similar to what someone else has shot that I have failed because I did not create something that has not been created before. Or I feel like ‘I don’t have an eye for anything’ right now. I was encouraged …
Connection
This week was a struggle for me to find any sort of photographic inspiration. Waiting until nearly the last minute, I finally forced myself out the door, falling back on “just shoot something”. It almost seems like the cyclist in the foreground is looking for a connection, maybe based on a common interest. But in …
Things Left Undone
You know how you get excited about a new project? You get started, then distracted, and pretty soon you are worse off than before you began.
Focus
One thing I really like about my LX3 is the manual focusing. There is a “focus” button on top to do an auto-focus over-ride which can help make manual focusing faster. But what is even better is an on screen DoF scale. The focus range changes with aperture and focal length to make hyperfocal focusing …