Friese Frame Photography

Wow, has it really been over a year since I posted here? I apologize for that!!

Hi everyone!

I'm so happy to say that I've finally overcome my artist block and have been taking photographs again! I've already done three shoots at the time of writing this!

An exciting development in my photography is that I've started using off camera flash (OCF) again! I used it at one convention but carrying around the equipment was such a hassle I decided to nix it. I never really picked it back up after that because the majority of photos I took were at conventions and I sort of became a natural light photographer with some flash thrown in from time to time.

Flash forward to the last few weeks. I've come to realize that I don't really enjoy shooting at conventions anymore because it's too stressful and I'd rather put my energy into shooting things outside of conventions. I also remember that I have taken some awesome pictures in the past with OCF and I still have the equipment at home! I had the opportunity to go home, so I grabbed my OCF equipment and took some test shots of my dad. They turned out very well and I started getting the long-gone feeling of excitement of shooting again!

Once I started feeling excited about shooting again, I was able to put myself out there in a local cosplayer/photographer community and asked if anyone would like to model for me while I was in town. I got some interest and was able to work with a local cosplayer and we shot at a local park and the photos turned out great! I felt like I was getting my confidence back!

Honestly, I'm so happy things are going well with photography again. I want to take more and more photos and experiment with all sorts of techniques and people!

I'm not going to go over my off camera flash equipment/techniques in this post because honestly it's not that advanced of a set up and there are plenty of other of posts/videos about the technique on the internet but if you are interested in that information, let me know!

And now the part you've all been waiting for: Pictures! All of these are taken within the last week. Enjoy!

Hello all! I've been inspired recently to do some photography out of my comfort zone - landscape photography! My main inspiration came from some friends that are in Japan and are taking really cool photos! I also watched some youtube videos on the subject and decided to head out the other day and try my hand at landscape photography!

Now, I'm just starting with landscapes so I still have A LOT to learn, but these are (in my opinion) some of the better photographs.

I was under the impression that landscapes were shot with mainly a wide-angle lens (which I don't have) so I was happy to find out that one of the favorite lenses to use was a telephoto lens! I used my Canon 70-200 2.8 lens for all of these pictures!

I have not mastered manual mode yet so I shot most of these in Shutter Priority mode (Tv) which lets me control the shutter speed for the long lens and the aperture is up to the camera. This is where I messed up in a few photos and should've switched the Manual mode to increase my aperture so I would get a sharper image. You'll see what I mean in the photos. There's a lot of bokeh.

1. Check the aperture of the shot. Adjust if needed!
2. I like to focus on little details
3. I like movement in a photograph

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July! I decided to visit the Cincinnati Zoo for the first time in many years to test out taking photos at the zoo! I had a blast at the zoo and learned a lot! I brought my Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 lens and it did a beautiful job! I'm glad I was able to use that lens since I mainly use my portrait lens but man it gets heavy after awhile. I'm going to have to use it more or start working out or something!!