Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're taking a look at a photo outing to a
beautiful park in the area. This park has various sculptures that are
interesting to use as a subject. I don't get the whole thing
in the frame usually. But I'll take different angles...
See what I can get out of it. One of my favorite ways to take a photo
with trees as the subject is shooting up so you get the nice glow
through the leaves themselves and a beautiful blue background from the sky.
It was really bright that day, so it was challenging to look through the
viewfinder. And I had my tinted glasses on which
made it even more difficult. But made things work out. This park is
popular with the walkers, the bikers, and there are definitely a
lot of signs and things to indicate that. The path goes along the river which is
just a great area to walk. In this case with the 22 millimeter I
can't get very close with that lens so it did
limit my ability to isolate small subjects.
Flowers.. insects.. things like that where I can
get detail in the photos without having a super distracting background.
I also tried to frame subjects throughout with plants.. leaves.. on the
sides of the photo. Some of the trees in this area have an
interesting structure to them. Where they're very open on the top
they're pretty full. Even a simple picnic table can be an
interesting subject. In this case I wanted to get some of
those lines straight into the photo. This sculpture is what we call the
"Symbol of Rockford" in the case of the symbol here
I was trying to get just a piece of it with a beautiful blue
background in the photo. The flowers around it were really nice.
This park is pretty thin. Noise is an issue.
Especially with the audio. In this case I temporarily lost my
recorder with the lapel microphone. Didn't have it with me.
So that's why we're doing a voiceover today. I photographed this crossing
sign a few times. Of course, with any type of railroad track you have to be
especially careful. This specific one is usually just for a trolley
that they run. Again, never stand on the tracks.
Always look both ways if you're going to cross one.
The crossing of the two paths was an interesting spot to take photos.
Tried a few there I really like that area for some reason.
With fishing there's always garbage related to that.
People lose their lures.. they forget things.
You can see the results of that right here. With a larger aperture lens it is
good to go with smaller apertures quite a bit.
You don't always need that large aperture.
Think about your subject. How close you are. How much you want in focus.
And use an aperture that is good for that. You don't always have to use the
largest aperture. That tree has been in the river for a
long time. They painted it to look like a dragon. I don't know the reasoning behind
it. But it is an interesting subject. In my
case with the 22 millimeter lens, pretty challenging to make interesting
with a photo. But if I had a longer lens, definitely be a
good subject. Of course, if you want to be the ultra
high-end photographer. You're gonna have to be
very careful about what you show people. Select your best work.
That is one way to go about it. I haven't really tried to be
very particular about what photos I show. It is personal preference and how you
want to go about it. When the river deviates it's a good area
to take photos. Especially when you get the boats
coming through at the same time. Get the nice curve to the river itself.
Plus some added interest, but good spot. Top downs can be really interesting.. this
one's not especially exciting but take a photo anyways. This area has a
nice bridge. Definitely a good subject for photos.
Here I saw the ducks passing it through these trees. Seemed like a good
photo op right at that specific moment. Here is a second bridge in that same
area. This one is a lot older than the previous one.
I think this one has more character, in my opinion. Definitely a good one for photos.
Those chains have some really nice texture to them.
This area was really nice. That sculpture has a great reflection to it.
Nice lines... my last photo I tried to utilize the shape of it and have the
photo flow in that direction. Anyways, I hope you
enjoyed this quick photo outing.
Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!
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