Five Red Tulips
Sep, 2015Views
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Location
I shot this in Cosby, Tennessee, in an old man's garden. It is OK for me to say old man because that is also me.Time
Late afternoon, probably around 5 PMLighting
It was backlit in the shade, so I used a large lens openingEquipment
I am not sure, it could have been my Canon T3i with a 55-250 lens, or my newer camera a Canon 7D Mark ll with a Sigma 18-250 lens, it was shot using the car window as a brace.Inspiration
As I said I am a senior citizen, three times retired. I served for a total of 49 years in the Fire Service, 21 years in the Daytona Beach Fire Dept. retiring as the Operations Chief and then 23 hours later starting as a Captain at the Kennedy Space Center Fire Dept,5 months prior to the launch of the first Space Shuttle. Thirteen years later I retired after being the Fire/Rescue Chief, which included 14 trips to West Africa for contingency landing sites should one of the Shuttles main engines not firing, making it impossible to achieve orbit and mandating it land in West Africa. After retiring again I was contacted by the Florida State Fire College to teach part time at the college, which I did for another 15 years.Editing
I do use Photoshop Elements in post processing and Microsoft Digital Imaging to clone out telephone lines etc.In my camera bag
It of course depends on where I am going. If going to my little cabin in Tenn for an extended stay I carry my Canon 7D Mark ll, with the 18-250mm lens, plus a 50mm prime 1.8 and Canon flash, also I carry the Canon EOS T3i body plus extra batteries and chargers for both bodies. I also just ordered a 10-18 Canon wide angle lens.Feedback
I joined a local camera club and in 4 years have been fortunate to win 2 Merit Awards and 1 first prize. I guess the best advice I could give is to shoot lots of photos, the beauty of digital photography is that it doesn't cost any more to shoot 100 photos as it does to shoot 1. Perhaps a good idea to pay attention to the settings of great shots and matching them against some of your not so good shots and take a hard look at your composition and see how your composition stands against those not so great shots. I think one of the things that leads to great shots is learned by shooting a ton of bad shots and then critiquing them to find out where you went wrong. Ask for critiques from fellow photographers and do a whole lot of listening.
