I use my Samsung Android Smartphone camera, small mirrorless Leica Dlux 7, and Nikon D5300 and D750 DSLR cameras all the time. They all serve different purposes for me and each has its pros/cons. This article clearly points out clearly a DLSR does best and I couldn’t agree more.
For me, the final image is what counts. In the end, it is what matters most. The details on how it was created come after that.
This is a picture I took of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Arch in Dallas Texas one Sunday morning in October 2018. Due to a period of heavy rain, the Trinity River was at flood stage, cresting at over 40 feet. I went there with the objective of getting shots of the high water level and flood waters in the levee. In the end, the nice cloudy background in the shots provided some unexpected aesthetic subject matter as an added bonus.
Once you start looking at all that is around you at any given point in space and time, as a photographer, you begin to see endless photographic subject matter possibilities in almost everything. Some of my favorite creative photos were taken on days when I felt there was “nothing to shoot” until I started looking deeper.
From a morning photo walk at sunrise a few weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/GUFxiftEvS
— M.E. Risser Photography (@merisser_photo) December 22, 2019
This is a picture of the Margaret Hunt Hill and Dallas Skyline I took around sunset in October 2015 The composition felt good, but the colors always felt off and distracting. Although I worked on it several times over the years, the results were always unsatisfying. Black & White monochrome did not capture the mood of the scene. Finally, I went with what you see here and am happy after all this time to post a version of that shot from years ago that I feel works!
These are a few images I took recently on my Sunday morning photo walks. I have many more from those walks that I am working on and may share here as well. I have always loved black & white images of urban scenes going back to my film/darkroom days.
