Jolt Country

I should get better at photography.

Frobozz knocked my old camera off a table, so I bought a Canon Rebel Digital XT 300D recently. I used it to shoot photographs for my next game this Halloween. (And by the way, when you are in Halloween mode for 30 straight days, suddenly being shunted into regular old November is weird.)

I should get something like a tripod and a portable light. I should do that, but let's not talk about "will," just "should."

I should also learn enough so I can take those nice pictures that are all blurry in the background, but crisp up front. I "should" also learn how to do that.

Those are easy, it's just f-stop and focus



What's hard is learning composition. I took some photo classes back in high school and the hardest part was taking pictures that 'said something'. Like anything else, the more you do it the better you get at it. Good thing we don't have to process film anymore, that part gets expensive and tedious.

THE
DIGITAL AGE
AARDVARK

My camera has a "portrait mode" that does exactly that (sets to a shallow field of focus). This isn't a great example but:



It's also pretty easy and quick to fake in Photoshop:

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/phot ... -of-field/

I got into photography a little bit in college and yeah, digital, boy did that change the game. Nothing like going to a football or basketball game, shooting two rolls of film, and then spending a couple of hours in a darkroom only to discover you captured ... nothing.

Also Jonesy if you're interested I have downloaded somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 photography books in PDF format, if you ever want to virtually thumb through them.

Here's a slightly better one I shot this week. No Photoshoppery, just landscape mode with a narrow depth of field.