No one knows where time goes!

Hello to all you fine folk on the start of this BIG Memorial Day weekend,

Thanks to all have come visiting my blog, Sorry I have been missing in action
I am under a ton of items here at the studio that are requiring way too much time. I know that is not your problem you just want those fun photo tips and my view on the world. RIGHT

Recently I have had to become a sewer worker thanks to the township I reside in. The good thing is that while working on that situation I discovered a 15,000 year old artifact( a tomahawk head) pretty cool!
So now I have moved on from that project only to find that the end of the month is move'n on up . Ford Carlisle is coming and I need two Rancheros inspected NOW. So with that I gotta get going and get my hands dirty.

But my tip and info are: Check out pinholecamera.com to see what Great images folks are producing without hightech gear.

I hope to be offering a pinhole camera course through the Adams County Arts Council's Imagination Station. So as I put the course together you can check it out at my website {dickbloom.com}!

Folks have a Great Memorial Day Weekend, Stay SAFE.

I am doing a wedding the 26th a shorty second marriage and outside Thank God!

Till next time, I hope to be back up on a daily basis in June.

I bid you adieux friends.

"Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass."
Jerrold

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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Fishy weekend PF&P

Hope this weekend finds all you photographers out there fish'n for the biggest fish'n story of the day!

Remember to take your filters with you to knock that glare off the water.

Your polarizer will make all the difference in the world for you to capture that award winning photo of your young one reel'n in the biggest trout at the fish'n derby or maybe you fall'n in the water trying to get that GREAT shot.

I mention PF&P, in the little town where I used to live a lot of guys I knew participated in a ritual sacrifice of their well being and health to PARTY, FISH & YES FOLKS PUKE and escape their everyday rat race and their womenfolk!
To drink liquor,eat sushi {just cuz I kant kook to gud} which brings us to the end where the Puke'n part comes in!

Enjoy!! Cause Monday is com'n at us lickety split!!!!

So lots o' luck to ya all out there catch'n fish, colds or wild women left behind by the first day of fish'n.


"It is not the quanity of the meat , but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast"

Clarendon

Til Next time
Happy Hippie Trails

Dick

Happy Hippie Birthday

Welcome Friends
Today is the day for [Me] we all like to call our birthday, the day we entered this strange place however many moons ago that was, we wonder/wander around acting out as though we have an idea what is going on. You know by following the clock, the calender or what ever the measure of time be that most of us have to adhere to, to attain money, a paycheck; I worked xxx number of hours!
Let us look at that word hour it is Middle English from Anglo Norman French "ure", via Latin from Greek hora, season, hour. Is it not strange that when we look at the main part of the word which is "our" very little of the hours are ours! When we look at "ours" and its origin it comes from Old English "ure" of Germanic origin; related to us and German "unser". As we peer even deeper into the word "unser" it is used in this way "{unser}ious or lighthearted" or {unser} viceable, not in working order!! But We all know that an hour in the mind of getting paid is neither lighthearted nor {unser}viceable! I have always been able to tell with fair accuracy what time of the day it is, no alarm clock, no wristwatch, no "big ben" pocket watch like my beloved "Frank" my WWI veteran cousin who I always called "Uncle Frank" who when asked what time it was he would reach into the watchpocket of his green union suit, set a stern eye at "big ben" and state." Well by my time it's noon but by them crazy bastards it is 1:00! Frank never believed in changing his timepiece for daylight savings time. So as he said "By MY TIME it's noon! We should all just try MIND {OUR} own time and to hell with everybodys elses time and timepieces. Today is MY DAY MY TIME MY LIFE. "Carpe Diem"

As I continue on my quest at 58 years or approx 21,170 days, 1764 months old I leave you all with these immortal words of Longfellow:

"What is time?--The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years centuries-- these are the arbitrary and outward signs-- the measure of time, not time itself. Time is the life of the soul."

Longfellow

Back tomorrow with photo tips and more if there is T I M E!!!!

Experimentation Ah' Yes

I trust your week has begun with a smile! Have you had your trusty camera working these past few days experimenting with perspective by using different lenses from the same aspect.
Let me know how your doing and please come back for more tips and projects from me.

"A rocking horse makes motion but no forward progress"


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Sunday Sunday

My tip for the day is to relax and enjoy the blast of winter that has beset upon us folk here in the frigid north. How about doing a creative project with your images. Start by choosing one lens of your choice, say a wide angle 28mm fixed only, {no zoom} shoot a weeks worth of images in your everyday enviornment with it, then for the following week choose a different lens shoot all images from the same aspect compare your images and see what you learn about creativity and perspective. Take your newly found creativity and do a collage or a mobile. Make the mundane Monster. Let me know what you learned. Pop me an image of your creation. Happy shooting.


"It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power."
Jean Francois Millet


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Home on the Range

How much flash range do you achieve by moving to a faster ISO?
The rule is: "Double the distance four times the speed." Hence if your flash range is good to 20 feet at 100 ISO, at 400 ISO it will be good to 40 feet. This should be true for digital as well as film.


"Common Sense is the Measure of the Possible"
Henri Frederic Amiel

The winds of Ol' man winter has set upon me here at dickbloom.com blessing me with over 9 inches of fluffy white snow in South Central Pennsylvania.
The forecasters said 3-6 inches! I want a job where I can usually be wrong and still get PAID.

BRRR over and out!

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Whole Lotta Shak'n Going On

Remember the slowest shutter speed which you can safely handhold a camera is one over the focal length of the lens being utilized, as shutter speeds slow camera shake will result in a overall fuzziness or loss of sharpness {rule of thumb is 50mm lens equals 1/60th.}

You can always try bracing your camera on a steady surface or break out the flash and the tripod or monopod. Just quit your shak'n baby


'Tis hard {but glorious} to be poor and honest: an empty sack can hardly stand upright; but if it does,'tis a stout one.
Ibid

Sunset perfection

To capture a perfectly exposed sunset, meter the area directly above the sun, but not the sun itself. If you want the scene to look as though it is later say by a half hour or so stop down one f-stop or use your camera's exposure compensation and set it to-1.

"Man comes as a novice to each age of his life"
Nicolas Chamfort


Here in the north spring shows it's head as old man winter reminds us that even though we have sprung forward early, winter is not to leave for a bit yet.
So enjoy the weather for if you don't like it have no fear it will change.

Grey Card blues

A great way to get a midtone reading that will render a good overall exposure of the scene at hand is to use an 18% grey card. What you say you don't have one handy, no problem just taking a reading off your open palm facing the light source, then open up roughly one stop, then shoot! Skin tones do vary but rarely make more than a one stop difference in the setting.

Enjoy your spring like day and Get out and shoot a spring time scene.

"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude."
Voltaire

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Dick Bloom

Spring has Sprung!!

With all of these sunny days on the way, remember the old tried and true rule the "Sunny 16 Rule" which is the basic exposure for an average scene taken on a bright sunny. The rule is f/16 at a shutter speed equivalent to one over the ISO setting or f/16@1/100 sec at an ISO of 100 from this you can interpolate You can try f/11 on a bright but cloudy day and give f/22 a go at the beach.

Spring

"Spring Hangs Her Infant Blossoms on the Trees,
Rocked in the Cradle of the Western Breeze."
William Cowper

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