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This is another great list of quick techniques to improve your photography. I think it would be great to take and do a series from each suggestion, demonstrating the before and after quality of using each technique.

Improve Your Photos in 60 Seconds

i have no idea what this is. I assume some kind of water line, but it looks like some strange scuba device.

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Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Principles and Guidelines for the Modern Photowalker
As always, Thomas Hawk has a great insight into the life and time of a modern photographer. If you haven’t read his escapades with law enforcement, you should. Seeing his images on Zooomr it is clear that always having your camera is how you get the great shots.

Well, it wasn’t the productive weekend we had planned on having. Instead of getting the backyard all prepped for landscaping, I spent most of the weekend feeling sick.
But while we were working outside, we noticed that our cucumbers are starting to come in.
It’s a lot of green to try and photograph and show any real depth, but I found a few decent angles that picked up some yellow from the buds. I only wish I had noticed the stray grass in the foreground. I might have moved it or tried to use a smaller aperture for a little more DoF.

I found this old sliderule in a box of stuff and thought it deserved to be captured. This was something my father owned and used once upon a time.

I was hoping to capture the lines and reflections on it, but I need to spend some more time working on getting the right DOF for the photograph. I took several and this is the only one that turned out fairly well.

I also need to work on the light so that there is a nice reflection on the metal but the glass is transparent. Also would help to clean it up a little more so there isn’t gunk on the glass.

There is a lot of talk about the difference between the people to take photos and photographers, and it seems the main distinction (for some) is intent. It’s one thing to take enough pictures that you wind up with something good, as in the 1,000 monkeys with a 1,000 cameras theory. And I certainly have fallen into that situation.
But if you are going to have intent, then you have to have a plan. And to have a plan you have to start with some ideas. I’ve been mulling over my ideas for some photo series that I think would be interesting and would provide me with the opportunity to expand my knowledge of technique.
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As I start taking more and more photographs, I want to try and challenge myself to become better and better. To do that I think I need to set some goals. So, I am going to set a goal to get a picture published in JPGMag. Maybe not this next issue, but soon.

In order to do that I need to focus on my photography and try to develop my artist and technical skills. I think that the est way to do that is going to be to pick a topic for the next issue and try to develop the very best photograph I can for that topic. This would be different than what I did for the last issue, where I tried to find some photographs that I had already taken that fit the topics.

I am going to try and document my process so that I can learn from it and maybe other might glean something form it as well.

JPG Magazine: Brave New Photography

I have found a new creative outlet in my photography. I’ve recently joined the JPG Magazine site and hopefully someday I will get one of my pictures published. In the meantime, I will keep taking pictures and uploading them to Flickr or Zooomr