Creating Your Own Luck: Tips and Tricks from Justin Black

This article written by Justin Black highlights many interesting tips/tricks that could help any photographer "create their own luck". Though knowing when and were to be when trying to capture a specific photo is key, these tips will certainly help to really take your next photo to an elevated level.

Mike

https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/wildlife-techniques/create-your-own-luck/

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                                              ISO 1250, Aperture f/5, 1/13 Shutter speed
 Light draws more attention than dark. Jagged lines draw more attention than smooth.            Sharpness draws more attention than blur.

                                            ISO 100, Aperture f/5, Shutter speed 1/640
                Light draws more attention than dark. Sharpness draws more attention than blur.

Capturing Multiple Fast Moving Subjects

For this blog post I wanted to find a picture that captured two subjects frozen in action. I found this photo very interesting as the photographer was able to capture a Jackal as it was chasing away a scavenging bird. As we've progressed in class, I can only assume that capturing such an image would require a very fast shutter speed combined with an aperture that keeps the subjects in focus while using an ISO that would help allow for proper exposure. All of which would be hard to set in such a fleeting moment.

General Aviation Photography

I took this photo this past July during a Fly-in that RMC's flight team hosted. The flight team is new and little known to most students that attend RMC, but I am a proud member and captain of this new club if you so call it. My goal going into the fly-in was to capture one of our planes right before touchdown. I was lucky to be just off of the side of the runway in a great position to create this picture. I wanted to freeze the Piper Archer just a few feet off the ground as one of our own RMC aviation students was flaring for landing. Of course I now understand what I could have done to better capture this moment but I firmly believe that any photo I walk away from happy to be a good one. Isn't that the point of photography? To create something that you can be proud of.

Mike

Creative Blurs: Introducing a Sense of Motion

Outdoor Photographer is a great webpage I've come to find. For myself it's a great place to find tips and tricks for many different types of photography. One article I came across was of particular interest to myself, it talked about introducing creative blurs to instill a sense of motion. In much of wildlife photography the goal is to freeze motion as much as possible to capture the subject in a clean manner to highlight what is happening. What I learned and also found interesting is the potential to slightly blur a portion of the subject to introduce and show some motion in a single snap shot. This technique was done on the photo above; a Snow Owl was captured in flight, by using a slower shutter speed and with a focal point on the owls head the photographer was able to blur the fast moving wings really highlighting the bird in flight. 

https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/wildlife-techniques/creative-blurs-wildlife-photos/