Over the last few weeks we have been walking over the site of the old Bogdon and Gross furniture factory, which is being demolished to make way for another sub-division. Originally built in the late 1890's by the Knechtel Furniture Co., It operated until 1934, closing during the great depression. Purchased by Bogdon and Gross in 1938. They operated a furniture manufacturing operation until 2017 when it closed and has sat empty since. A fire in 2020 caused some damage and a permit was issued for the demolition. I am posting photos taken (usually just with a cell phone) showing the events and the changing landscape. Old photo of plant from the internet archives Satellite image from google earth before anything happened 2021 02 20 before destruction 2021 02 24 still no changes 2021 03 11 Work has started Fencing has been put up to keep people out. Keep an eye on that rail car to right of building. it is so...
Y our DSLR has a very powerful exposure meter on it, but it also has a useful feature to go beyond simple metering. When you review a photo on you screen and you press INFO it should show a histogram similar to the image at the top. In the case of Canon camera, the more to the left the darker the image, the more to right the lighter the image. This eliminates any errors or failure of the rear screen viewer to render the image properly, particularly in difficult to view lighting. To do so, take a test photo of your subject and look at the histogram. Now if it is too dark, adjust exposure compensation a click or two brighter and take another, review the histogram. The intent is to just get the right most area of the graph just at, but not against the right limit. The example at the right above for Bright Image shows too much bright, that is, information in your photo is be bleached out, and no amount of post-processing can fix it. On ...
I created this video for a photo class I have been teaching. It explains some of the common terms used in Photography Click on the window below to play the video there is no sound video is 22 min. long