Another day that starts ‘around the corner and down the street’. The question we should be asking is, where are we at when we start.
A small church on the corner of Garden and Cota Streets ( I told you Cota Street was my second home). Iglesia something . . . I must get in the habit of carrying a small notebook with me to jot these locations and building names down. Or, as Ralph Clevenger would suggest, take a picture of the plaque or information as you are shooting – what a brilliant idea!
Perhaps this is a good time to tell you about Ralph. Ralph is an amazing nature photographer and instructor at Brooks Institute. He has much wisdom and experience not only in photography, but also in the submission of images for magazines, editorials and stock. He teaches nature, stock photography, underwater and video production classes at Brooks and has the most wonderful humor – guess he might have to in order to put up with students. His big push to students is twofold: composition and keywording & metadata. It is simply not enough to take the image, you should know what you are shooting, and if you don’t at the time you are shooting, then you should before it goes out to anyone – now do you see why I reference him so much?
The teacher has taught well, and really, the student has learned well – the student is merely lazy – ouch, not good!
Sidetracked a bit – now back to the image of the day
TODAY’S IMAGE
two crosses
camera type: Canon EOS 10D
lens type: Tamron AF 28-300mm f/4.5-6.3, 32mm
exposure: 1/320s @ f/4.5
ISO: ISO 200
post-production: Lightroom 2.0
location: Santa Barbara, CA – Garden and Cota Streets, on the corner