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Since it is cold outside, I thought I would share a few ideas about exploring photography at home.

For one it’s a great time to experiment with your lens collection, your filters, or other accessories. I decided to get my macro lens out and an old camera of mine, that I like to call Mr. Kodak. The camera is actually a Kodak DuaFlex II, very popular in the 1950’s and 60’s.

This type of shooting I call viewfinder photography. Here I am taking a picture of the viewing screen on Mr. Kodak. The results are often dreamy and give me a different perspective. So stretch your creative mind and try something different.

My creative photo walks are about to start in Reno. This year besides a river walk, we are going to add local trails and the arboretum.

Hi,

I’m planning a sports photography class and shoot with the G league Reno Bighorns.

It is a very exciting brand of basketball. Our Reno Bighorns are the Sacramento Kings

minor league team.

Class is January 27th with the shoot January 29th.

If you’re interested call Action Camera in Reno.

Bighorns vs Lakers

How do you capture what you see in a beautiful, colorful sunset? I would suggest underexposing  by using the manual settings of aperture and shutter speed or the +/- button in program. For color augmentation, I set my camera to vivid or my white balance to the cloudy setting. These two changes to a normal exposure should result in a great sunset photograph.

We had a great photo walk in downtown Carson City last week. Our goals were to “see” the light and look for unusual angles in our photography.

 We had a great series of photo walks this year. I hope you can join us on our next adventure. Downtown Reno put on quite a show for us. And the soft tones of Carson City provided an interesting counterpoint. We all learned new techniques and shared ideas. Thank you for your participation.

Alternative photo processes are all the rage these days.
It’s very interesting to see what people are producing through a blend of film and digital.
Here is one of my attempts.

These were taken on Christmas Day 2012.