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Quick Takes: Eddie Soloway - Photographic Adventures (cont.)

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"I walked into the autumn forest, laid down on the mattress of moss and explored with my eyes. One of the tiniest maple leaves I've ever...Read More

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For example:

"Say I'm on a path along a stream, but what I really want to do is be down at the stream, not along the path. I go down along the side of the stream and I move up and down, back and forth, looking for, say, reflections. I'm watching the movement of the water. When I find something that pulls me in, something that I feel connected to—and usually it's a quality of the light—then I open up the technical box.

What can I do here? Well, maybe I can put the camera on a tripod and play with different shutter speeds for this reflection. I don't know what the buildup of light and motion will give me over a one-second or five-second exposure, but I want to find out. I might think, what if I give the scene a little more motion? So I hand hold the camera, close down the aperture, drop the ISO to get a longer shutter speed and move the camera, maybe with the flow of the water. A lot of this is simply being curious."

Eddie advises that you take a lot of photographs in a lot of different ways when you're faced with factors you can't control—like changing light or motion. "You need to hit it with more than one exposure and control the things you can control, like shutter speed, depth of field and the speed of your motion."

So don't take the picture everyone else takes—and don't be limited by your own expectations. "Never go out expecting one thing," Eddie says. It may not show up in an interesting way—or it may not show up at all. "Be open to what's there."

And he adds, "If you ever need a coach, someone to show you the way, bring along a kid. What he sees will lead you to all sorts of imaging adventures."

Visit Eddie's website at www.eddiesoloway.com.

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