When using a telephoto lens inside with a subject like swimming you have no choice but to use a wide open aperture. This produces very shallow depth of field. I try to use it to my advantage. This type of focus helps to isolate your subject. In this image the swimmers head is really the only thing in focus. LynnFreeny.com
Sometimes the time of day is more important than the subject. In this image a picture of these storage tanks would be boring without the sunset reflection giving a warm glow on the subject. LynnFreeny.com
Using a telephoto lens is my main choice when shooting swimmers. Two reasons for the long lens, one I do not like getting wet and I like to get close up details of the swimmers face. In this image it looks like the swimmers are too close. This is caused by the telephoto lens which compacts information. This is why long lens make mountains look taller.LynnFreeny.com
I took this shot on a field trip with my class. Several of my students decided the reflection on the doors of this building had to be photographed. I guess I thought the same thing. I positioned myself so I would not be in the composition. The way the glass is separated by the metal frames helps the the reflection to become more interesting than just one solid piece of glass. LynnFreeny.com
I was at a church picnic today at Sam Houston School House. After eating too much I headed to a bench on the beautiful grounds of the old school house. I looked up and saw a tree canopy of new growth and as you know I had my camera with me so I took a shot. I ended up using the green channel then added a warming filter in Photoshop to get to this final image.LynnFreeny.com
Shadows are under rated by many people. Some photographers try to eliminate all shadows making their image seem so flat and boring. In this image the shadows of the fence on the little girls face add more drama. LynnFreeny.com
Usually when you say birds eye view of something it means seeing at a high elevation. In the case of this image I imagined what it would be like if I was a low flying bird. By tilting the camera I was able to give a feeling flight. LynnFreeny.com
I shot this jet crossing the sky one evening during winter. I used a wide angle lens which created some distortion with the trees in the frame. Extreme wide angle lens usually distort at the edges of the the image. It works well on this type of subject. When a wide angle lens is not level the effect on the edges are even more pronounced. In this image the lens is being pointed upward toward the plane. This kind of effect may not be as desirable when shooting a group shot like a sports team. The people on the sides will look wider or even fat!LynnFreeny.com
I just can't help myself I must capture the reflections I see every day. Here I am stepping out of a rain storm when the sky clears and there it is . Rain drops on this window mirroring the end of the storm. LynnFreeny.com
Reflection is one of those things most of us take for granted. Many times we just look and see a window and miss the beautiful reflection like this one in this image. Keep eyes and mind open and look at the world for those little details. LynnFreeny.com
Photography is about showing your vision to other people. In this image I am choosing to only focus on a small section of this old typewriter. LynnFreeny.com
Some of the most interesting parts of a building is the inside architecture . In this case I looked up at the sky lights of this building. The repeated space give a nice pattern for the composition. The reason I went for black and white on this image was because I felt the strongest element is the contrast of tones. This contrast always happens when windows are included when shooting indoors. LynnFreeny.com
This is the last in my series of power outage images. I was putting a candle in the guest bathroom. I laid my flash light down on the sink. I noticed the crazy shadows created as it bounced of the chrome water spigot. LynnFreeny.com
This is another candle light image I took during our power outage. I love the warm color and the soft edge shadows created by the candle. LynnFreeny.com
The power went off in our house Sunday night. We got the candles out for light. I started looking around for something to do when I noticed the shadows caused by the candle light. The image is one of the results of a night without electricity. LynnFreeny.com
Sometimes you get just the right light for a portrait without trying too hard. What helps you recognize good light is knowing how to create good light. The light on this little girl was natural. It was the light that happened to be there. I like to call it "found light". Just remember it is impossible to find something that you are not familiar with so learn how to create good light. LynnFreeny.com
This morning I was walking around in my front yard when I noticed the Rhododendron were in full bloom. We had very heavy rain fall last night. I moved in close to get the bee tracks and water droplets on the bloom. I used a 100mm lens with extension tubes. With these tubes any lens can be a macro lens by moving the lens farther away from the film plane enabling the lens to focus closer. LynnFreeny.com
I am alway looking for interesting things in boring places. I found this window in a parking lot in Knoxville. LynnFreeny.com
This is another example of using a gobo ( a go between). The tree is the gobo with the church and the tree pointing toward the center of the composition. LynnFreeny.com
If there is good light boring subjects become interesting. The warm evening light is hard to beat.
By using the red channel I was able to get the same effect that I get from a 25 red filter when shooting black and white film. I also used a wide angle lens for distortion. LynnFreeny.com
I spent some time in my back yard today on one of the best days so far this spring and maybe even this year. I found this honey suckle growing on my wood pile. As the sun filtered through the tree canopy I noticed shadows through the sun illuminated leaves. LynnFreeny.com
The other day in Oak Ridge Tennessee I noticed that it was raining with the sun shining. I scanned the sky for a rainbow and sure enough I could see it just above the tree tops. The straight shot was not very interesting so I started looking for a more interesting angle. That is when I saw a reflection from the newly formed puddles of water. Remember most of photography is looking not shooting. LynnFreeny.com
I know this looks like a starry night but it is really another image of the Tennessee River reflecting light on a windy day. LynnFreeny.com
One of the best times of the day to shoot photographs is early in the morning. In the case of this image having fog with sun rise adds some dramatic almost theatrical lighting to such a normal subject. If you shot this same subject an hour later the image would be quite boring. LynnFreeny.com
