SUMMER TOO SOON

What a wacky wonderful world we live in here in beautiful Pennsylvania it snowed just north of here last week and today it was look'n at 90˚ STRANGE Spring weather!!

My Photo tip for the day is; Always crop in camera, make your subject the focus of the feature, allow the viewers eye to be drawn into the subject, try to have a clean uncluttered background {ie.} no trees protruding out of the side of a subject's head.

So get out there shoot some film! Play with black and white film.

"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it!"
Persian Proverb

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Man O' Man

UnBelieveable!!! That I have not tickeled the keys of this computer for a week. AS some may know This weekend is the Spring Carlisle Car show which I had hoped to attend in my 1962 Ford Falcon Ranchero, but with not getting the tax man satisfied until late Tuesday I won't be getting to the car show which is really a cool thing to attend. I've been going there for over 30 years BUT the Great thing is that in June they have the Show I will Definitely HIT It is the ALL FORD show. That way a guy can focus on the cars I have been loving to play with since I was a boy cleaning my parents red Falcon up and painting the letters G O O D Y E A R in on the tires which was the way white letter tires came to be.
So now that you are sufficiently bored with my Falcon story on to the photo tip. When photographing cars at shows or just your own rod. Try to remember that not all car folks are into the arty images from weird angles they want to see the whole of the vehicle or the soul of the creation {that what is not easily seen by the untrained eye} so don't just take a close up of that cool grill or hood ornament, capture the soul of the creation for all to see!

"No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfils a man's ego like an automobile."

Sir William Rootes

Nor' Easter/No Easter

Howdy Folks
Hope your weekend is going okay wherever ya'll may be.Let me see what tidbit of helpful info I want to give you folks to help you on your way to grabbing those unforgetable images.

Do you worry about you and your digital/film gear getting wet on those rainy days.
I am going to tell you how to keep both you and your gear dry with my patented foul weather umbrella. Go to any local dollar store, Wally world,or wherever you can find an umbrella that attaches to one of those event chairs in a bag, attach it to your monopod and now you can stay dry and keep your gear safe as well!

By golly if you are out there today you'll need something to keep you dry fo' sure pardner.

So keep shoot'n and check back for bits and pieces here at Dick's niche on the web.

"The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature."

G.D. Boardman

As we can see mother nature cared just a bit about History Meets the Arts this weekend in Gettysburg.

What is mother saying about her assets in and around the area when she sees an event is going to happen, ahh! yes maybe some rain to dampen the SPIRITS of the folks around the town?

Let me know what you think!

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The TAX Man & ME

Image from first ever Gettys-burg Bike Week an original copyrighted image by dickbloom©

Howdy Photographers and Friends

Sorry for my delinquency, but the TAX MAN has been seen just round the ol' corner so I've been chained to Turbo Tax and not doing much { 'cept figger'n out how to get er' all done" Hope ya'll got yers done already'}

So now for a regular ol' special effects photo tip for free;

You know how sometimes when you are trying to grab that perfect image and your playing with the depth of field, focus, and shutter speed you get an image that is distorted ,out of focus, or just shot at too slow of a shutter speed. Don't despair, in this wonderful wacky world we exist in. Exaggerate the issue and now what you have are special effects you can use at will
for fun and offbeat images to play with. Combine a few to create a weird collage or load then into an imaging program and play with them as a watercolor or a color pencil drawing or whatever strikes your fancy. As I was told in photo school. "This was no mistake this is {ART}! Thanks to the ever present Photo Gods"

"Give it a try! Have Fun and Don' take life or yourself too SERIOUS. Smile More this year"

Later
Dick Bloom
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

Quintilian

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"Panning for Gold"

Howdy all you chilly photo grabbers.

Today I'm gonna chat about a special effect with your camera with out any extra gear! Works with digital or film.

Great something for free at last. Panning for photo gold.

Have you ever admired the image that looks as though the subject is traveling at a high rate of speed but the subject is tack, this is accomplished by the photo technique know as "panning" which simply stated is keeping the subject in the same position in the finder and in focus as you track the motion which will keep the subject sharp and the background will be your speedy blur.

Generally speaking, the speed of the subject relative to the distance of the camera and the focal length of the lens, speeds of around 1/30-1/60th will provide tack subjects with a speed blur for a background. Speeds of 1/8th or slower will give superartistic effects while still being able to indentify the images.

There ya go get out there in the world give it a try folks!

Have a G R E A T Easter Holiday
Peace Out Sisters and Brothers

"We Know God easily,if we do not constrain ourselves to define him."
Jourbert

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Dreary & Gray Wednesday

My oh My! Where does time get to?

Wednesday already!

I once was told by a learned man about a photographer whose book of images took years to create but his shutter was open for only a matter of seconds for the images in the book.

So was he able to capture and save a moment in time or just a mere milli- second, the blink of an eye, so try to think in terms of shutter speeds as one views the internal as well as the external world each of us exist in!

If we live our lives always remembering that {we, all, everything} only exists in that millisecond of time, Existing for the moment is truly all that exists for time that has past is just GONE!

Most of us expect, hope, pray, concern ourselves with future time.

Carpe diem!!

So capture that so called Kodak moment when you see it, for it will never exist again! Another words always be a good scout {boy or girl} by being
prepared but never scared; fresh batteries, the camera always on the general settings for the day, say maybe use the sunny/16 rule I spoke of earlier in this blog.
Learn to see your images as an integral part of the world you exist in, not separate.

Good Shooting

" The hours of a wise man are lenghthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts; or, in other words, becasuse one is wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it."

Addison

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A Breath of Fresh Air

On a day like this in Pennsylvania one can only smile and be happy to breathe the air even though it is laden with airborne pesticides and God knows what else since the fruity farmers are spray'n for who knows what when { all night } sometimes or where. Sorry for complain'n there for a minute!

Okay my photo tip for the day is to go out and find, beg or buy a film camera and shoot a roll of the things you love and truely want to preserve for the future to see.
The reason I say this is, as we speak someone in this digital world just lost their photo memories to the cyber/digital world we all have put our trust in.
Just remember light can be made to work for us in a darkroom even a flash light will produce an image, but when the powergrid goes OFF your digital based images are as dead as the proverbial doornail.

Let us all relearn the value of the real darkroom!!

"Go forth into the dark{room} and create light !{images}"
RLB

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April's Fool

I have just won the Universe Wide Intergalactic Lottery. I just got the email from S.P.A.C.E. {Serious People Attempting Comedic Ethnos} What I won was all of those skids of money that they haven't been able to locate over you know where. It is now widely reported on Jupiter or was it Uranus UFO's came down a used their gigantor money sucker to make all those green U.S. dollars disappear so they can help redistribute all that wealth to more underpaid unemployed internet folk like myself.


HO HO HO A HO P HO R HO I HO L HO F HO O HO O HO L and AMF

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Hope your all fished out and getting ready for the new week.

Remember to always keep fresh batteries for you particular unit handy! You don't want to miss that award winning shot for a few dollars worth of duracells! Don't forget the flash batteries!

Sunday Morning Coming Down was the song that launched Kris Kristofferson's career. Thanks to The Man in Black Johnny Cash!
Which just goes to show that networking is the path to follow.

A little Luck doesn't hurt either.

Good Luck with the week's shooting. Get out there and network this week set your dreams ablaze with action this week.

Watch for an update on a photo ezine.

"The secret of success in life is for man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes!"

Disraeli

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