Greg Sharpe Digital Artistry

Not long ago I took a trip to the Smokey Mountains in hopes of a new adventure. I spent a few days in and around the main street that runs past the city shops, restaurants and attractions. As I walked the sidewalks I kept wondering what else there was here besides hustle and bustle. I wanted to see the wilderness that so tightly wrapped this beautiful area.  I started very early one morning and decided to drive to outer banks of the main city street to see where it would take me. As I drove I started seeing that the city and county had taken measures for the “out of Towner’s. If you know your way around its not a problem, but this tourist location had its limits for directional signs. I mean, you had signs up to a point, but then there were no more signs, and they essentially disappeared.  I tried using maps on the Internet, but they are only for main roads, and the satellite views could be years old. The only way to do this was the old fashioned way, get out and actua...

Things Change When You Get Down Low Enough... Recently I've been obsessed with creating perspectives in my photos that are very unique and different.  Actually getting those perspectives takes an eye for the creative, visualizing a perspective and then getting in position to get what you want.  Over time I have tried to continuously challenge myself, not with the technical, but to challenge myself with the creative.  Like using a fill flash to correctly light a subject is too "technical" for me, and I've faced the reality along time ago, I am technically challenged.  So what I do is work with available light and try to create a uniquely appealing, yet different image, with different perspective.   Sometimes, I must admit, they turn out all wrong, bizarre, or just plain. I am learning that if you can get a perspective that, just by walking by an object, you don't and in many cases, can't see, then that is what I am after.   I don't do this on...

In focus, the middle and the back... Sitting atop a fence post appears this painted, rusted, weathered form in wrought iron.  I stood back and took a few snaps, only to find it was just okay, but not amazing.  So I started looking through the lens at different focal lengths and soon began to see other aspect of this composition.  First you see whats in front of you in immediate focus.  Then as you move through the image, you see aspect of figures in the middle and then finally you see beautiful bokeh in the back.   Although many famous photographers didn't do much of this back in the day, mainly because of the lenses used, but I am sure that some dabbled with double, triple exposures to attempt to create what they were seeing.  I am so fortunate to be able to have learned from other great photographers, some on G+, and some on blogs to follow pieces of what they do and incorporate it into my work.  So when you take a picture look from th...