I think most successful people are loathe to admit how lucky they are. It’s that uniquely American myth about self-reliance and “picking yourself up by the bootstraps” blah blah blah. It comes down to ego I think. Successful people want to believe they did it all themselves, which is no doubt partly true….but just partly.
I recently went on vacation to Paris and some locations outside of the city. I brought 2 completely different camera systems in order to see for myself which one was better suited for travel. One system was built around my Canon 5D mk2, and the other was built around my Fuji X100S. I made the following video to share my thoughts upon returning home::
For any given scene, varying the focal length yields different perceived foreground / background distance, even though the actual distance remains the same. I was curious to see if varying the focal length would affect the amount of background blur, known as BOKEH. I created a tutorial video to demonstrate the test and show the results:
I’ve been going through this depressing period in my photography where I just don’t feel like shooting anything. I didn’t really know why, but it was really bothering me. Somehow I SHOULD always be ready to shoot stuff, no matter what…except I didn’t even want to LOOK at my camera.
Photoshop Elements 12 (PSE), or Photoshop CC (PS)? Adobe is now offering Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for @ $10/mo. That makes Photoshop affordable. It makes the decision as to which way to go much more difficult.
