Keep it Level
One of the hardest problems I have in taking good photographs, especially landscapes, is to keeping the camera level. When you are taking landscapes it should be easy to be sure that the skyline in level, but for some reason it does not always happen. If you do not have a skyline, try to find something in the view finder and use that as a guide. Most digital cameras have small squares or guide lines that should help you. If your view finder is not something that you look through, but something that you hold away from you to see the picture you are about to take, then it is even more...
Read MoreFalls Mill
Sometimes the lighting will never work out right for you until you take a look at the results. At a gallery night in Pensacola recently a person told me about this mill in Tennessee near the Jack Daniels distillery. After talking to the tourist welcome center in Tennessee and a shop keeper near Jack Daniels we found the location of the mill near Maxwell which is between Fayetteville and Winchester, TN. Then we found the mill but I wanted to wait for an afternoon sun for better lighting.. We went to a local “down home ”restaurant for the noon plate special and returned to the mill....
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