Painting Tucson
December 6, 2008
Post Tags: painting tucson , photo blogs , Tucson-Desert , visual tucson
Painting Tucson Desert Broom in Bloom
Painting Tucson is another one of my weekend projects. I’m sure most of you know by know I practically live with a camera in my hand. At least I would love to live with a camera in my hand. More often than not it is a keyboard which my fingers touch. There is something about the feel of a camera in your hand framing a piece of time to freeze and immortalize. “Okay, I through day dreaming about being a great photographer”.
I’ve been looking at various photo blog themes for over a year. I already have a photo blog. Visual Tucson is another weekend project. It is not a WordPress based site. I wanted to see what it was like to install photo blog software that wasn’t WordPress based. It functions, and seem to have pretty good presence on the web. But I don’t like the Administrative interface. It isn’t easy to create new posts, it isn’t easy to manage comments or categories, etc.
I like Big IMAGES
Yep, I like big images. I like them to fill the screen and take my breath away. I want to be able to see the sweat on a bee’s brow. I want to see the hair on a spiders leg and the scales of a butterflies wing. I like a black background to make the images jump off the screen. Both Painting Tucson and Visual Tucson have big images. Painting Tucson is much easier to manage. But the images are smaller. Painting Tucson has the cool reflection thing at the bottom of the image. I like that too.
What Kind of Camera Do You Use
This seems to be one question that a lot of photographers get and some even bristle at the question. They feel a little insulted that you would think the camera was the main focus of the image and not the photographer. Like asking an author what kind of computer he used to write his last book.
Well, I shot with a lot of different cameras. I can tell you right now YES THE CAMERA MATTERS. I can get decent images, well almost decent images from most cameras. In good light with a subject that is broad enough to spread the eye all over the image I can make it work. The image above was taken with my point and shot Panasonic Lumix TZ5. It is a 9 megapixel camera which lives in my pocket.
But when I go out to shot, to really shot, it is my Nikon D300 that puts a smile on my face every time. I love this camera and the glass I have for it costs as much as the camera. Bottom line, the camera does matter. But it isn’t the most important thing in photography, that would be the photographer.
