Denver Amateur Weekly Photo

What's this blog all about?

While sitting in the DIA airport with a popular photography magazine in hand, I read about an amateur photographer who wanted to share his photos with others and in return have them share their photos with each other. The idea of having a blog where myself and others who enjoy taking pictures could share those images, while at the same time offer up suggestions, ideas and techniques sounded fun to me. So I decided to create Denver Amateur Weekly Photo where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, techniques and photos.

Here's how it works: Simply post your blog each week with a picture you would like to share (don't worry, there is no obligation to do it every week, but the more you do it, the more fun we make the site). When adding your picture, tell us what camera you used, angle you took the picture, the location of the picture, date / time and the camera settings / techniques you've used. That simple.....its all about having FUN.

IMPORTANT - if using a picture of a person, please make sure you have their permission before posting.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Here is a picture of my dog, Dori. I took it about 10:20 in the evening in my living room. I used my Canon with a Vivitar flash and my 75-300mm lens. I wanted to post this because the blog has been active/online for about 26-hours now with over 30 viewers, yet no posts, so I decided to post this picture of Dori, perhaps it will help to incentivize others to start posting. Don't worry, Dori gave me her permission to post a picture of her. Enjoy!

2 comments:

TommyJanuary 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Cute dog! (^_^)
I like the depth of field. It helps separate Dori from the background but it's not over done. Did you use a diffuser on your flash or did you just bounce it off the ceiling because the light doesn't look harsh like from a naked flash. Might just be me, though. Solid photo overall.
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Kirk BestJanuary 24, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Thanks Tommy, I actually just bounced the flash off the ceiling. I think the foreground lighting of the room helped a lot and didn't over expose the lighting from the flash.
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