Category Archives: Craft of Photography

Smoke and mirrors, part 1

Posted by Ann | on May 6, 2013 | Also posted in Creativity, Newest, Photography | Tagged ,

When I teach my intro class, I often put my 50mm lens on my camera and make a portrait of one of my students from less than two feet away, closer if I can without overly stressing their personal…

Swipe books for photographers

Posted by Ann | on February 14, 2013 | Also posted in Creativity, Gear Bag, Newest | Tagged , , ,

Last week I was tutoring a photography student in her home and I didn’t want it to get too formal, so I’d left my laptop back at the ranch. As I was trying to explain some photography principle, I…

B&W Tuesday (with a splash of hand-coloring): sidelined

Posted by Ann | on January 15, 2013 | Also posted in B&W Tuesday, Creativity, Way out west |

It was well below 0°F at Stray Arrow this weekend when the outdoor weather station remote’s batteries froze up. It might break freezing tomorrow. Housebound and trying some new stuff in the studio. It started out as a B&W,…

End of a summer lost

Posted by Ann | on November 8, 2012 | Also posted in Creativity, Newest |

Since late summer, I have been fighting through some medical adventures with a cornucopia of medications that failed to work as desired. Instead they knocked me on my ass pretty regularly. I holed up here at the ranch, trying…

What happens when a D70 goes bad

Posted by Ann | on October 22, 2012 | Also posted in Gear Bag | Tagged ,

R asked if he could use my first digital camera, a Nikon D70. I have kept that camera around because it is much more sensitive in the infrared than my others, and it’s a lot of fun to do…