Part of my InspireMe line of photos, you can customize any photo at onyonet.com. I picked this rose from our garden because of the gorgeous color and the heart shape formed by the petals. Nothing says LOVE quite like a rose.
Easily one of the funniest and truest things I’ve ever read…and I’m the photographer š Great belly laugh for those who understand and are living it. Well done Michelle
Photographerās Wife
by Michelle Blanchard
Yes. I know not all photographers are men. But, being that my husband is one, Iāve learned that a photographerās wife:
Knows that a āgoing for a walkā really means āstand for long, long periods in one spotā.
Becomes accustomed to seeing her husband lay on his belly in public places.
Knows that āthe lightās goneā doesnāt mean itās dark.
Has learned that photography involves expensive gadgets which break, are easily lost, and are used only once in a very great while.
Has learned that photographic equipment multiplies and eventually fills up what used to be the guest bedroom.
Is resigned to the fact that camera manufacturers build obsolescence into each piece of equipment, andā¦
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Nice photos and poem.
Watch the sidelines
Surprised with fragrant and color
Under your graceful charm
Youāre still amaze
ā
Millions touch of admiration
Before your eyelids closed
Again scatter your smile
Until the next challenge!
My little Bellis dream ā¦
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byĀ©DellaAnna2014
This is one of the best ideas I’ve seen in a long time. I’m constantly driving my wife crazy asking her to help figure out what “category” a photo will fit (I hate categorizing photos, but we have to do it I guess). Thanks for doing this and the other challenges Cee.
Looks like a cool place to shoot Mike.
Crumbs from a cookie with candy coated chocolate got dumped into the sink along with the egg shell.
After a morning of shooting mushrooms something inspired me to turn this photo into a 1960’s style poster. I like this version better than the straight photo of the mushroom.
Long story short, when I learned how to create web pages I learned in Notepad. There were no GUIs (Graphic User Interface) at the time. When GUIs came out I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, GUIs mess up, and as we all see on WordPress GUIs can be changed without notice. Knowing the actual text (code) behind the GUI allows you to figure out how to fix what’s gone wrong. Very handy when nobody else is helping.
I have figured out how to fix the problem caused by the WordPress “upgrade” in a post and on the front page of my blog. I say my blog because what follows is for a very specific set of circumstances. It might help you, it might not. If you know at least a little about html code, you may be able to use this information.
Here’s the givens for my blog:
Now to the fix:
I’ve had to strip some of the stuff that makes the photo appear in the post instead of the code, but I think you’ll get the point. If not, please feel free to comment or email your questions. I’ll do what I can to help you out.
The code as it is after clicking the Add Media button in the “upgrade” version:
This results in the photo appearing like this:
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The aligncenter will center your photo. The width=”670″ will make the photo the correct size for the post. Apparently 670 is the width set by the Visual theme. This is why I say you may need to adjust things a bit.
Next you need to change the end of the <img src="https://onyonetblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/love-autumnlove-autumn-onyonet-photo-studios_blog.jpg?w=150 line. Currently this line ends with ?w=150. All you need to do here is remove the ?w=150.
Finally, you need to change
The width is always 670. The height will change depending on actual size of the photo. If you click on the photo in your library you will see the actual size in pixels in the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
Time for a little math. Sorry to those who don’t feel they’re strong in math. It’s not too bad, and your calculator will do all the work for you.
This particular photo is 1280 (because I told it to be when I exported it) by 914 pixels. Since we know the width will always be 670 pixels in the post we can use that as an anchor of sorts. To get the height=”478″ we need to calculate the percentage change in the width. To do this, using your calculator, type in 670 and divide that by 1280. The answer will be 0.523.
To get the height, clear the calculator and then type 914 (the actual height of the photo) and multiply by 0.523. This will result in 478.421. Just drop off the numbers after the decimal, it will be close enough for our purpose.
After you make the changes the photo will appear like this:
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Your width attribute will be width=”670″ (given by the theme settings). Your height attribute will be height=”1005″.
Your portrait oriented photo will look like this:
The wind was blowing so hard the trunks of the palm trees were swaying. You can feel how strong the wind was blowing looking at this photo.
WordPress has made changes to the image editor. These changes have made my photos appear in thumbnail form automatically.
It will take me a few days to figure out how to deal with the changes so the blog will still look good, at least look like I want it to look. This might mean a change to the theme itself.
The address won’t change so you can keep following and keep coming back to check on my progress. It’s doubtful I’ll be able to figure this out while working on my iPad which means I can only work on it at home.
Thanks for your patience during this transition.
~ Daniel Kmiecik
This was the last black-eyed susan of the year in our garden. This impressionistic photo is created using a double exposure technique.
This technique for creating an impressionistic photo might be the simplest. If your camera has a multiple exposure function this will be very easy. If it does not, you’ll have to use a layer-based photo editor (like Photoshop) or some other way to combine two or more photos. Today I’ll cover using multiple exposure, the way this photo was created. Tomorrow I’ll give you some tips on how to accomplish a similar effect in Photoshop.
For this multiple exposure you’re going to release the shutter only twice. Once to create the sharp part of the photo and the second time to create the blurry impressionistic effect. If you exposure time is fast enough you don’t even need a tripod for this.
How blurry? That part is up to you. It’s your vision and your decision. I suggest creating several versions of this photo and selecting the one you like best later.
The blurry part of the photo will have an overall softening effect. It will also help hide any unwanted distractions in the final photo by making them far less noticeable.
If there are any points of light, like those caused by the reflection of the Sun on a water drop, those points will turn into large circles. The size of the circle will depend on how much you defocus. The more you defocus the larger the circle. Using a mirror lens, like in this photo, the circles become rings due to the mirror blocking the center of the lens itself.
There will be a defocus point where everything just becomes color of an undefined shape. You can use this to create a kind of in-camera background or overlay of colors. The overlay of colors will mix with each other and with the colors from the first exposure and soften all the colors a bit making them less saturated.
Go out and give this a try if you’re interested in impressionist style photography. Try changing things up by using more than two exposures or making one exposure longer than the others. I purposely used a higher ISO to create more noise in this one to get a grainy look. I’m sure there a lot of ways to play with this that I have yet to think about. Keep shooting and have fun!
~ Daniel Kmiecik
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