27: Photographic Vision -- Status report

“All men and equipment are in the clear. You may proceed, through my work authority, at the maximum speed permitted for your train. This is what you would have heard on the railroad radio a short time before the train passed the signalman. This is sort of how I feel about this project. When I first started the project I struggled to find an image each day. After nearly a month I am starting to see images all around me. As today, I went out to shoot an image and the lighting was really bad. As I was leaving I noticed the signalman and approaching train.



My trouble is the implementation of the capture. In this case I have two very bad mistakes. First, is I should have used a much slower shutter speed to show the train speeding by. The second is I think I needed to shoot wider and included more of the signalman’s truck. After I get a better hold of implementation, I will venture back into photoshop. All images so far were shot RAW converted using Canon’s DPP then cropped, resized and sharpened.

10: Photographic Vision

Well I thought about reshooting yesterday’s image today but the sky was again dull and gray. Later I went to a meeting and by the time I got home it looked like rain. A short time later the rain started. There was flooding all around town and the rain kept falling. My favorite place to watch the rain is sitting in the swing on my front porch, at least when the wind is not blowing. As the wind was blowing rain in on the swing, I retired to one of the rockers on the porch. I sat there thinking, looks like I miss today, and then I looked toward the house across the street.

House Across the Road in the Rain

9: Photographic Vision

I once heard the expression: “Sometimes photography happens to me and sometimes I happen to photography.” This time photography happened to me. For the past several years I have walked out the same door at the Government Center and never noticed this image. So this time photography happened to me.



Sorry to say I had no tripod with me and in the heavy overcast and a longish lens the image is not very sharp. There is likely a much better composition, if I looked around. So you might say this is a reference shot for future use.

8: Photographic Vision

Seeing an image is the first step in producing a good image. Well it seems like the image a day is starting to take hold. For the first time in a long time I saw something and envisioned an image. The second step is to portray the image in an artistically pleasing manner. This has always been one of my many weak points, I spent too many years doing factual documentary photography. I hope to improve this artistic skill within the next 350 days. Next is the technical skills, these fall into 2 parts capture and post processing. When I try, my capture skills are not all that bad. My post processing skills are another issue. I tend to stay with “that is the way it was” concept and fail to use post processing to enhance the image while not changing the image.

Overgrown but not Abandoned

Photographic Vision. Many people have told me that most good images photographs and other types express something about the one who produces the image. This has been true of the images I have already posted and this one is no different. Here we have something old and a little run down. It is a little overgrown. But, it has not been abandoned.