It's also about white, blue and black and the regular patterns that are created by all these elements!

I really like this.

Thank you!



Seems like you're up late tonight . . . You OK?

My sleep pattern has been disrupted since the holidays. Otherwise, everything's fine. Thanks for asking, my friend.

Look for angles/leading lines to the subject and find contrast.. or as she put it.. "tension"..
I started looking at Professional photographers "quick shots" and a lot of what she said showed up..
Works for me!
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Good advice from your friend! I'm always looking for leading lines, angles, shadows and contrasts. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

the rule of ⅓'s etc. Now it's take a shit load of digital images on automatic exposure and upload to photoshop for "post processing" to make it look presentable.
Same history as with my old profession as a Radiologic Technologist. Back in the day it was the tech who manipulated the factors on the machine to get a diagnostic image. Now it's all automatic exposure control to get "readable" images...not great images. Then go to post processing before the MD sees the images.
Ahhh progress...
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I sometimes developed/cropped/printed B+W photos when I worked for community newspapers as chief cook and bottle washer. The job included everything but running the presses. I was glad to have some darkroom skills and liked controlling the process, but didn't enjoy being in what were usually poorly ventilated darkrooms. My personal color film was usually sent to a commercial processor and I was seldom satisfied with the results. For a few years I took my exposed film to a local photo shop whose owner would tweak things to my liking. Now I do all of it on my 15-year-old MacBook using the stock Apple photo program.

I always shoot in RAW and switch to manual exposure and focus for astrophotography and artsy projects like the ones I posted under the titles "The life aquatic" and "Antique glassware" earlier this week. My lenses in auto mode are slow and often less accurate than if I take the time to focus manually. Auto is the only way to go when there's no time for adjustments.

Apparently, film photography is making a comeback. I can't see going back to expensive film and processing, waiting for the prints to come back and lower resolution images. Maybe it's considered more "authentic."