Day: December 14, 2020

WONDERING

Wondering what to wonder about is a wonderful part of my process for making a photograph. There is the impulsive grab shot or photographic guess and there is the well thought about photograph done very quickly and mostly in the mind. I have often wondered about what the famous photographers wondered about when making an …

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To Photograph What is Below the Threshold of Visual Perception

Cartier-Bresson said that what he likes most about a photograph is what is not visible. The great photographer Robert Frank said that we must be detectives. Snooping and probing, always looking for insight into the process of making meaningful photographs. Reading through my notes from about two years ago, I came across the phrase “to …

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Cuba

My wife Wendy and I recently went to Cuba on a music tour which was organized by Wendy’s sister Nancy Covey, who operates Festival Tours International. It was a People-to-People delegation organized by Project Por Amor.  At first, I thought that there would not be many chances to make photographs while riding across Cuba in a bus. …

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My Five F’s System: Number Five, Firing

My “5 Fs” (finding, figuring, framing, focusing and firing) was conceived to help photographers remember the things to consider when photographing a subject in real life situations. If you practice this system it will become your working technique as a street photographer. The fifth and final F is FIRING. Everybody wants to hear the click. That …

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My Five F’s System: Number Four, Focusing

My “5 Fs” (finding, figuring, framing, focusing and firing) was conceived to help photographers remember the things to consider when photographing a subject in real life situations. If you practice this system it will become your working technique as a street photographer. The fourth “F” is FOCUSING. Hocus pocus they took away the focus? I believe that …

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My Five F’s System: Number Three, Framing

My “5 Fs” (finding, figuring, framing, focusing and firing) was conceived to help photographers remember the things to consider when photographing a subject in real life situations. If you practice this system it will become your working technique as a street photographer. The third “F” is FRAMING. Framing is the action of putting all the elements, …

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MY “FIVE FS” SYSTEM: NUMBER TWO, FIGURING

My “5 Fs” (finding, figuring, framing, focusing and firing) was conceived to help photographers remember the things to consider when photographing a subject in real life situations. If you practice this system it will become your working technique as a street photographer. The second “F” is FIGURING. Hooray! You see a situation or subject that you …

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My Five F’s System: Number One, Finding

My “5 Fs” (finding, figuring, framing, focusing and firing) system was conceived to help photographers remember the things to consider when photographing a subject in real life situations. If you practice this system it will become your working technique as a street photographer. The first “F” is FINDING. Finding a subject can be a frustrating process …

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