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“It’s really neat to work with snow and to build something just for the sake of being creative, knowing that it’s going to possibly not be there the next day.”
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Art sculpture installed at BCCC
The sculpture is called Time-Space Voyager.
Thinking about taking pictures of the eclipse with your phone? Veteran photographer offers these tips
INDIANAPOLIS — When Central Indiana experiences a total solar eclipse on April 8, many of us will be tempted to take pictures with our smart phones.
Veteran news, art and landscape photographer Rob Goebel urges you to protect your phone — and your eyes — from the sun’s bright rays.
“Taking pictures of the sun before the total eclipse is just really difficult to do with a cell phone because it’s so bright,” Goebel said. “It’s so much brighter than the tolerances of the camera can handle.”
David Shank 2017
Goebel spent 30 years as a photographer with the Indianapolis Star and now runs his own graphic illustration business. If you plan on taking pictures of the eclipse with your phone, Goebel has some tips.
Don’t aim directly at the sun
First, he said, avoid pointing the camera directly at the sun. And, whatever you do, don’t look at the sun without those special glasses.
“Look at these. Talk about a fashion statement,” Goebel said, putting a pair of cardboard eclipse glasses on his face. “These are incredibly dense. They’re like, if you took the brightness of the sun and you cut it in half, 15 times, that’s how much this filters out the sun.”
Vic Ryckaert/WRTV
Use a filter or an old phone
Goebel said if you try putting the eclipse glasses over your phone’s camera and taking a picture of the sun, the image comes out fuzzy.
He said you can buy a special filter for your phone’s camera for about $10.
Or, he said, you can use an old smart phone knowing that the one shot of the sun could be the last decent picture it ever takes.
Vic Ryckaert/WRTV
Block the sun to protect your eyes
If you plan on shooting the sun before and after totality, Goebel advised using something to help you aim the camera without hurting your eyes.
He used a piece of cardboard to make a sun blocker.
“And I’ve made this little doohickey,” he said. “It’s just a piece of cardboard, and then I cut out some slots where my hands go. And then this space in the middle here is where the phone goes.”
Vic Ryckaert/WRTV
Wait for totality
The whole eclipse will last several hours, but the time of totality, when the sun is completely blocked by the moon, will only last a few minutes.
“When you reach the total eclipse, that magic two minutes where you can look at the sun safely, you won’t be able to see it through these glasses,” Goebel said. “Then, you know it’s time to take off the glasses.”
2017 Solar eclipse as seen from Madras, Oregon.
Goebel said that’s the time to aim high and shoot the sun.
“You can just point your camera up there and shoot a picture,” he said. “And with a cell phone camera, you’re gonna get a pretty good picture.”
Great pictures won’t all be in the sky
Watch the ground for cool shadows, like the ones Goebel photographed during a partial eclipse in 1994.
“I was standing on Delaware Street shooting up at the sky and I noticed that on the sidewalk by my feet were these little crescent rings of light,” Goebel said. “I shot one like that of just circles and traffic going by on Delaware Street.”
Rob Goebel
While the eclipse itself is a special photographic moment, Goebel said the best photos you can take with your phone are of people wearing those glasses, looking at the sky.
And he said to take plenty of pictures of your friends and family enjoying themselves during this amazing, once-in-a-lifetime event.
Contact WRTV reporter Vic Ryckaert at victor.ryckaert@wrtv.com or on X/Twitter: @vicryc.
Wedding Photographer Charges $8,500 for “Blurry” Photos – Some Are Defending Her Pricing
“As a wedding photographer, don’t bash unless you know the market yourself. People WANT the blurry images. It’s requested in every shoot I have.”
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Things become even more troubling when it comes to art and the story behind artists and artistry, which is the crux of the debate that surrounded the criticism behind a wedding photographer’s prices.
TikToker @tripp.photo posted a video where she shared her starting prices for a wedding package: $8,500. Another user on the platform, after looking through her artwork, @haussdrama, decided to look through Tripp’s work to see what customers were getting for the same price as a used 2012 Scion TC.
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“When someone inquires for wedding photography with a $2k budget and I send back my starting prices of $8.5k,” the stitched video begins with Tripp, who is rocking dyed purple hair and glasses looking into the camera. She lip syncs a country singer saying, “You think I’m psycho don’t ya Mama?”
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The TikToker who stitched her video, Hauss, agrees with that assessment as the video transitions to a screenshot of the photographer’s TikTok page, @tripp.photo. She advertises herself as a Wedding & Lifestyle Photographer who provides her services in North Carolina and California.
“Maybe just a tiny little bit. This photographer is getting a lot of backlash for releasing her prices which is $8,500 starting. Now I took a look at her gallery and let’s see if these pictures are worth $8,500.”
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Hauss then begins to embark on a photo-by-photo commentary of the woman’s pictures, which begins with a pair of undone leather shoes.
“Now with this picture I can see the intent, right? Going for that old, timey, rustic, I dare say you did not capture what you thought you did,” she says sarcastically commenting on the, what appears to be, slightly blurry photograph.
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Next up is a very blurry photo of jewelry scattered on what looks like a counter top. “What I did see is she’s a very big fan of blurry photos. I just feel like the jewelry placement, it’s just not working. It’s really not.”
Another picture Hauss highlights is of a dress on a hanger draped in front of a door, “Possibly one of the most unflattering photos that you could take of a wedding dress is just on a blank wall on a wooden hanger, it’s giving nothing,” she says of Tripp’s work.
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Hauss has positive things to say about the bride featured in the next picture of Tripp’s work, however, she doesn’t really seem to think that the picture taken of the woman really does her any justice: “Now this woman is stunning but this picture looks like it was taken in somebody’s backyard.”
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Next up is a black and white photograph of a bride adjusting what looks like her earrings in the mirror: “Again, she’s stunning she’s beautiful, she is giving. But the photographer it just looks like this is in somebody’s bathroom. There’s nothing special to the photo that’s like that wow factor.”
Following that picture is another picture of a wedding dress hanging on a wall outdoors: “I would say posing wedding dresses for a photo is not her strong suit,” Hauss says.
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“Obviously everybody should charge what they think they’re worth. If you think you’re worth $8,500, go ahead and charge for the $8,500 but if I got my wedding photos back and they looked anything like those I would request a refund. Actually I would dispute it with my card company.”
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“Anyways go and take a look at her photos, come back to this video, let me know if she’s worth the $8,500. I’ll see you guys in the next one,” she says at the end of her clip.
While there were plenty of folks who seemingly agreed with Hauss’ assessment of Tripp’s prices, there were also folks who thought that Tripp’s work was consistent, with some calling it “story driven” and “high end.”
What do you think?
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