I usually shoot midday or late afternoon during my work week, but this morning I looked out my office window and saw some awesome morning light. I grabbed my camera and headed out for about five minutes. I love the golden glow.
And late this afternoon I did a little experiment with myself. I’d read this article, The Ultimate Guide to Zone Focusing for Candid Street Photography, at Digital Photography School and wanted to play with it a bit. These were shot at 1600 ISO, f/8, 1/30s. To start, I focused the camera on a spot about five feet away. I then adjusted my camera according to the technique in the article, balanced the camera on my printer and set the timer to release the shutter. Voila! I was in the focal plane!
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Great shots… Thank you dear Carissa, have a nice weekend, love, nia
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Thank you, nia. Same to you.
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That sunflower is perfection. I love it when they’re dried, they’re more expressive.
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Thank you, Faith. I fee the same way. I find dried flowers of all kinds fascinating. These are dried musk thistles.
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Very interesting… one very dry flower though… “that’s the top photos”, he says quickly…. not you, your photos look good, young and fresh and blooming… (phew nearly put my foot in it there…)
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The top photo is my favorite. The ones of me were just thrown in there to show what I’m working on. No need to compliment me. Young isn’t the word I’d use to describe myself. Young at heart, maybe. But then again, given the actual condition of my heart, maybe not even that. 😉
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Well you look young… younger than me… and the young at heart must be shining through.. (why can’t women take a compliment..?)
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Compliment accepted. I just didn’t want you to think you had to. Thanks.
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Wonderful photos. I love the top one of the sunflower. Lighting is perfection. Thanks for the reference to the street photography guide. I want to take a look at that.
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You’re welcome, Maralee.
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Interesting article . . . but I still have an aversion to snap photos of people, especially without them knowing it (crowds are OK because they are unavoidable).
That stems in part to my antipathy toward being photographed.
Still, I can see those techniques as useful in other situations. The whole high ISO thing is something I started to play with, but I’m so used to fine-grained, noiseless photos that I’m having trouble looking at high ISO photos and liking them. I suppose I could just not zoom in.
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I like the slightly noisy photos for street photography. But for portraits, landscapes or other photos I want fine detail? No.
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Don’t zoom in. Not needed. Unless you are going to print a very large print, high ISO can work to avoid camera shake for handheld photos. Also, higher ISO actually makes older skin look less “old” – so there’s that.
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Nice work, Carissa. I LOVE that top shot. Really stunning. The experimental shots of you are also very good!
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I love the color in these shots, and your self-portraits turned out great! Nicely done!
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Thank you so much!
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The light in those first two shots is so lovely. Beautiful photos. I really like the selfies too. You always seem to pose so naturally. And I love Digital photography school, I’ve learned a lot from that web site.
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