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Print of the Month - Atlantic Ocean
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| | As always, I give a 20% discount to anyone purchasing my Picture of the Month. After the month is over, the price goes up. For April I selected a shot I did during the North Carolina trip last month. I was out on the beach nearly an hour before the sun came up, watching waves coming ashore as color started forming in the sky. The distant clouds over the Atlantic filtered the light and created beautiful colors overhead and reflections in the water. Since it was essentially still dark outside, I had to use a long exposure, which made the water smooth and creamy and blended the colors. It was a beautiful morning and I was happy to come away with a great photo. You can purchase the print on LorenPhotos.com.
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A quick trip to
the Outer Banks I’d
never been to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, so back in January when my
wife Robin was lamenting about all the snow and said she wanted to sit
on a beach, I suggested Hatteras. We figured it would be much warmer
there than up north come mid-March, so she found a nice little cabana on
the beach and we made our plans for a long weekend. We got there
Saturday afternoon and had time to walk on the beach before the sun set.
The next morning I got out well before sunrise and got some nice shots
over the Atlantic. The clouds rolled in by 10 a.m. and that was the last
time we saw the sun. Rain soon followed and the rest of our stay was
the only weather I don’t like - 40-degrees and rain. We enjoyed the
getaway but she didn’t get to sit on the beach and I didn’t shoot many
more pictures. Read more on my blog |
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The art show season is revving up next month and I’m excited to get out there and see all the people. So far, I’ve been accepted to all that I have applied to, most haven’t sent out their notices yet. I’ll be in Scarsdale, NY for the Westchester Festival of the Arts on May 18-19, at the prestigious Montauk Art Festival over Memorial Day Weekend May 24-26, at the Somerville, NJ Arts Festival June 22 and then back out in the Hamptons at the Armagansett Fine Arts Festival during the Fourth of July weekend. I hope to see you at the shows. You can always see where I am headed on my website, www.LorenPhotos.com, as more shows announce their artists.
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Think composition to make better photos One
of my favorite photography workshops is Composition and Light. It is
all day Saturday and until noon Sunday doing nothing but thinking about
the art of making better pictures. This workshop doesn’t cover the
technical stuff of how a camera works, it deals with how to think about photos
and concentrates on seeing pictures and using light to make them better.
It is a lot of fun and it always great to get away and just think
photography. I’m doing the workshop in NJ April 26-27 and in Vermont June 28-29. |
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Work the scene
I run into a lot of beginning photographers who see something they want to photograph, look at the scene, take one picture and move on. Unless they are damn good or really lucky, they are probably not getting the best photo possible. When I am out shooting, I'm looking to get the best photos I can, not the most photos. I prefer quality over quantity and I achieve this by what I call working the scene. Working the scene means that I am going to exhaust all possible angles, positions, settings and lenses before I am satisfied that I have made the best image possible. It may require moving my tripod down two inches or to the right two yards. I tend to look at angles first without the camera because over the years I’ve learned what it will look like, but I recommend you look through the camera first, find the right spot to start and then put the camera on the tripod. Slowing down and working the scene will make you a happier photographer! |
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