It’s Finally Spring . . .

For this Memorial Day Weekend I’m tying both of my sites together.
This is for the Technical Side.

I just wrote and posted about “Gardens and Flowers”!

Yeah a Cell Phone can do. But you need to start to learn about “Depth of Field”!

There is a setting on your Camera App to change the Aperture.
This change will control the amount of Light going to your Sensor.
But this will also change and have an impact on where you Focus On the Flower. I’m stretching here but think of the Numbers on a Ruler!
Now if you also see the numbers for your Aperture right?
But think of those numbers as a Fraction of an inch.
I must State for Clarity that what I’m trying to explain is Only Concept.
The actual measurements and numbers Are In Fact Different.
I’m just trying to get you to understand that the Higher Numbers Like 5.6, 8, 11 and 16 if you understand the concept of what a Fraction of an Inch Is?
Then the higher the number lets say 11 is smaller than 4 because its a Fraction of an inch. So 16 is now smaller than 8?? Get it now?

So these Numbers are Used for your Aperture whether it be on any Camera.
To specify we call this Aperture. Which in reality controls the Size of the Opening that Lets Light In! To designate this we use the lower case “f” followed by a colon.
So If I’m speaking about the Aperture number 4 I would say “f:4”

Now again I want you to understand that these Numbers are Not the exact Size of the Opening. It’s a designation that is a common reference when discussing Aperture. It makes it easier for us to get our heads around and I will leave that discussion at that.

Getting back to the Aperture.
Now that you understand the comparison. The higher number lets less Light In.
The Smaller Numbers let More Light In. Got that?
Now lets take this one step further.
The Higher the Number the More that will be in Focus. We call this the Focus Plane. You see Not Everything will be in Focus nor should it. Depth of Field is another way to describe this area of What Is In Focus.

Shooting Flowers we Don’t want to see what’s in the background.
We just Focus on the Stems and Petals right? So we need a Shallow Depth of Focus.
So in getting Closer to Our Flower we need to be conscious of what is and what is
Not In Focus to give us a Better Image.

Now that I explained this. I want to just inform you that this is part of what is proper
Exposure. There are several things that Affect Exposure. The Aperture which I just explained. But the Shutter is also Involved. Think of the Shutter as a small Door that
Opens and Closes. This also controls Light. It controls the Amount of any given Light
Entering in and going to the Sensor.

The Next Thing that controls the Light is called “ISO”. Which has come to be a Standard of Sensitivity for the Sensor.

NO! I am Not going to get involved in that discussion here.
But I will Recommend the Book. This Book is the Bible for those that are interested in
Learning how to Understand what and How Exposure works. This Does Include Any Kind of Camera. The Title of the Book is Called:
“Understanding Exposure” by Bryan Peterson.

Bryan explains it a Lot better than I can. It’s Available on Amazon.

So now that we’ve come this far in understand about Depth of Field.
Here is the Link to my Images!

Like Always. Please let me know what you think of my Posts.
You can leave a Comment.

Have a Great Memorial Day Weekend.
Thanks for Reading……

https://photobymarkg.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/spring-is-finally-here/

The Why!

Welcome to the Weekend.

I have two Blogs. This is for Theory and History mostly. The emotions behind the creative process.

I just wrote a more Technical post for B&W Conversion.
If you wouldn’t mind. Can you please visit my site?
Any Comments and Thoughts are appreciated.

 

Thanks,
Mark

https://photobymarkg.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/finding-time/

Emotions . . .

Mother’s Day

Very emotional Day. Makes all of us feel like little kids again. Looking to buy or create a Mother’s Day Card. Has to be special this time. Different and Original!

Thoughts? History? Makes our Minds wonder to times and feel the emotions from our past. We remember the little things. The things that made us smile. The things that made Ma Smile.

When Ma’s not there anymore? We try to remember. We want to make that call?
To let our Ma know what’s going on in our Life. To ask how she is and what she’s up to. She’s not there. It doesn’t change. We just learn how to deal. But?? Holidays like this make it difficult. Difficult to Not fall into the emotional roller coaster of missing our Ma.

The little boy asking for approval. The little boy who needs assurance. The little boy wanting to ask advice or to let Ma know that you saw something interesting?

That can’t happen anymore! When life takes your Ma. We feel helpless. We learn to deal. Sometimes we still forget and reach for the phone. That will pass. Happens from time to time. But very rarely ……….. yet it still does happen. Habits die hard..

My Mother Never liked to be Photographed. She had a sixth sense of when I turned my camera in her direction. Always! When I did ask? I was told to go outside and shoot something else. I have Nothing! Nothing Not One Portrait of my Mother that I had shot. I do see some family snaps along the way. Nothing worthy. Not one portrait except that Image from when my parents got married. I have Nothing for my own piece of mind for my memories.

A little boy needing approval. When I was a little kid and discovered drawing. I knew I was able to do things. Special things. Once I discovered the books from the library on drawing and technique and style. I would do something. Create something. Every once in a while I got a better than “That’s nice”. I wanted more. I wanted to get better to show her I could do that. To make something that was worthy to hang on a wall.
Only once. I was using charcoals and pencils on something. A farmer hunched over maybe. A plow or shovel in his hand. I felt that the body and head wasn’t proportioned properly. So I crumbled it up and threw it into the pile I developed on the floor that I needed to throw out in a bit. My Mom happened to be passing by and heard my “complaints” ha…  LOL she picked up and unraveled it. She went absolutely nuts!! That’s great she said. That’s wonderful she said. How could I do that?? Seriously?? She walked out with it? I was like of all the things I’ve done? That’s the one you pick to praise?? At this point I realized something. That moment when you feel as though a light bulb goes off in the back of your head and you say “Duh”!
I’ve been asking for her opinion all this time on my work? Can’t she see that it’s wrong?? Ohhhhhhhhh OK time to do for me.

Then I found something by accident. I had run across my mothers Old Camera.
Whoa!! Ma can I use this?? Sure. Save your money. Film and then the processing can get expensive.. Why? it’s not a great expensive camera is it?? Nope! That’s just the way, just how it works.. Man!! That was a disappointment. Those images didn’t look like the way I shot it? Now at that time it was way before the Net. Off to the Library to start reading books on photography. Then a real epiphany was realized. The article I was reading in a Photography magazine was mentioning how the negatives was supposed to look for a half way good print. Mine was fine? Why was the print looking so terrible and not the way I saw it?? Oh…….. I had showed it to someone and was informed. It wasn’t me but the Lab. The Lab that processed the images didn’t print it the way I wanted it to be printed.. I was going to have to learn how to do this myself.

To be better. To learn more? I needed to learn this. This became my addiction real fast. But it was expensive. Soo expensive. I was an early teenager. I was fourteen when I discovered photography. I wasn’t discouraged lets put it that way. I was definitely not going to get an expensive camera. I had to save my own pennies..

So for Mother’s Day. Ma I remember you used to like pretty flowers. So the past few days I was crawling around the neighbors yards taking some pictures for you.

Miss you Ma…….