tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88407138172528795242011-07-31T00:31:42.049-04:00FOTOLUZBack to the basics of photography. How to take better pictures by MarcoArtPhotography. It is not the camera you have but your ability of seeing light, and determining how to use the ambient by itself, or adding to it.MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-64862247216244942452008-11-09T21:29:00.011-05:002011-03-30T22:24:38.785-04:00Calendar 2009What a priviledge it is to be part of the Nehemiah project. For those who don't know, this project is about a bunch of us Brazilians who live in the US, and similar to the Nehemiah character in the Bible...we owe not only to the Country that we now live in and love (the USA), but also owe to the country where we came from "Brazil". The Nehemiah project was born at the heart of our friend Glaucia MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-36275741703144299372008-10-05T13:43:00.017-04:002011-03-30T22:28:29.875-04:00The Music Barn at the Strubler's Last night my family and I had the privilege of joining many members of our community at the Strubler's place. We listened to the most beautiful music, and saw the performance of also great actors and actresses. The Strubler's family has put this amazing friendly atmosphere together a couple of years ago, and it is the best way to start enjoying the fall season.Taking these images was MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-77153080103827785612008-10-01T22:58:00.057-04:002010-12-26T13:38:14.311-05:003 - The 3 main variablesAs photographers, we must become fluent on reading the ambient light, change it, or complement it with reflectors, flash, etc...
You and your camera will eventually become one organism. In the process, you will need to understand how the camera “sees” light. As little as you may like theory, and I will assume that if you are visually attracted to images like all of us who love photography, that MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-74726383593137033242008-09-03T12:38:00.006-04:002011-03-30T22:25:19.665-04:002- Why a DSLR camera?
Although not mandatory, a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera, gives you flexibility not found in a point and shoot camera. Different than what most people believe, it is not the number of pixels that makes the most difference. There are 8MB point and shoot cameras in the market today that are unable of creating an image of a 4MB SLR camera. Most of the images seen on the Internet are MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-4399681627650729382008-08-28T15:31:00.020-04:002011-03-30T22:27:37.868-04:001- Light, and the illusion of depth
No light, no image. It is that simple.
As photographers, we observe and report light, or we learn to use it and manipulate it to paint a scene. It is no trivia that light is one of the first things mentioned in the Bible. If you ever read it, you may have noticed that in the first 4 sentences, although God created the heavens and the earth, it was all void, and without form, until He let thereMarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840713817252879524.post-23933660478041360962008-08-28T09:41:00.024-04:002011-03-30T22:29:15.967-04:00Purpose of this WeblogThis weblog is about getting back to the basics.The basics of photography.
Striving to take better photos is a lifelong endeavour, and regardless of how fast new technologies develop, we can only create a good image if we understand and apply the fundamentals of light, composition, and posing. It was true for Rembrandt, it is true for you and I. The tools we use change, but the fundamentals MarcoArtPhotographynoreply@blogger.com0