Lines that are perfect except for that one perfectly pefect imperfection...
I
love capturing organic lines when they reveal their organic-ness...
their potential for disorder... for something, just one thing, to get
'out of line'...
And when it happens it just makes the line so much more interesting...
It can happen at the back of the line...
I love the contrast of everyone else
looking dead straight forward and him in the back looking very intently
and in a line perfectly 90 degrees off the rest of them...
It can happen at the front of the line...
I love the 'organic line' components of
this photo - the obvious one but also the little smirk on her face that
make her dimple just bend the line of her smiling face...
It can happen in the middle of the line...
I was always the shortest - no, this is
not me in the photo but I always made every line I stood in look pretty
much like this...
It can be a simple tilt...
That last hat - "I just gotta' be me!"
It can be just a set of two and two - where one of the two of the two just decides to have a little fun...
I just hear the hat on the ground
saying to the hat up on the harness in a drone of a voice - "Phil, would
you quit playing carnival ride and get back down here so we can take
the photo..."
And then there is this line - which is perfectly in
line but still a favorite because the standout in it is the amazing kid
right in the center...
Yeah - I might be a little biased on this one... ;)
I love the framing of the face in this one but also
that each instrument of the three you can really see is at a slightly
different angle...
People all aligned... Horns: First one - 90 degrees... 2nd one - 85 degrees... 3rd one - 80 degrees...
And then there is 'line of sight'... "Twofer" on this one...
The smiles really make this photo, obviously... and the line of sight is subject to subject...
While in this one, which obviously
still has that amazing smile component, that has line of sight straight
off to the right broken with the one right into the camera... I actually
got several of these three young ladies in similar composition - two
looking one way and the other looking another...
But of course there has to be a break in this line of
examples to prove my premise by contradiction - some nice conforming
lines to be the standout in my examples of non-conforming lines......
The band in a line - beautifully (IMHO)
bokeh'd, the line of the turf, the blue line, the lines in the football
seams... okay - I give you that the white stripe on the football does
not complete the loop, but it is straight (in a consistent curve) and
ends perfectly at two seams with one in center.
So I wasn't planning on doing a BLOG on this but it was quite the journey so here goes... I got a new toy. Grabbed the BtS shots at the last second when it occurred to me to do BLOG... ugh - should have done a VLOG! A Light Tube - specifically a $45 LUXCEO RGB "Portable Wand"... I had been looking at various ones for a while and they were just honestly expensive for what I saw their usefulness as. Jump to Christmas and I have a $50 Amazon gift card - and I happen to see a YouTube video reviewing this little $45 Light Tube... so I bought one... I know - SHOCKER! Okay, so enough on my G.A.S. psychology... let's get on to the toy! So I decide I need to do the one thing that a Light Tube seems to be born to do... Swing around during a nice long shutter drag to create patterns. Let's start with The Setup: Monster on Plexi Platform held up by two boxes... LED wearing FESNEL modifier off to camera left... Light Tube behind Plexi - and it gets swung aro...
We made a quick trip to Cosley Zoo (great place to visit if you are looking for a quiet spot to enjoy - and photograph - some animals) in Wheaton, IL, arriving right at opening that morning, and found this beautiful bird still snuggled in and not quite ready to start the day. Most of the animals were lounging around and awaiting their morning keeper visits but this one just looked so snugly and perfectly content. There is something to be said for waking up in the perfect position and being so perfectly comfortable that you just feel like you need to just stay there and enjoy the moment until you absolutely have to move. In my head, that was what was going through this bird's mind that morning. Sometimes the worm just ain't worth the tradeoff... Sometimes you just gotta' enjoy the moment and accept that there will be another worm tomorrow.
So a friend asked for some advice... She had been trying to get some photos of her daughter playing high school basketball and facing the eternal challenges of photography in a school gymnasium... She brought her camera and lenses over and explained that she had spent SOOOO much time on YouTube watching videos and finding that none of the tips she gleaned from them seemed to help... I decided that instead of walking her though what would likely have been her 4,738th lecture on the 'exposure triangle', I would try to distill down the relevant pieces of information she would need, and only those pieces, into something easy to remember but solid enough of a base that it could be built upon going forward... So, I decided to create a character. In my head I called him Ignatius Scardino Onofrio - I.S.O.... FYI - Scardino and Onofrio are family names from my lineage... Ignatius is just a fun name... ;) Before introducing her to Ignatius I gave her some core relevant bits on...
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