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Monthly Archives: June 2009
I Found the Light! (was it lost?)
I have heard so many photographers say, “there’s not enough light here for a shot.” WRONG! Even on the darkest of nights light is everywhere. Now is there enough light for a short exposure of 1/60th second or less? (That is about the limit of a hand held shot even with VR (vibration reduction) lenses [...]
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Single, Small Light Source (sort of)
How many times have you heard a photographer or photography supplier say, “Oh, to get a good portrait you need strobes/flash/hot lights.”? Or maybe you have just read a few books about portraits and you see all the diagrams with snoots and gobos and umbrellas and big light sources. I am here to tell you [...]
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Go with the Feeling
Sometimes you get everything to work just right. I have spent many a shoot trying to get the lighting to work in a way that shows my subject in the way I envisioned when planning the shoot. Other times I go with just a hint of an idea. It’s usually the latter that works out [...]
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Is Photograpghy Art?
What is photography? Many say it is taking a picture, capturing a moment in time or creating an image. All of the images you see, whether made with a still camera, movie camera or even the images you see with your own eyes, are just reflections of light captured on a light sensitive surface. Even [...]
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Photo Albums or YouTube.com
Once you have chosen a camera and you start shooting, over time you are going to build a body of work. Now that most images are digital we don’t tend to pull out old albums or boxes of pictures like we used to. When I was a kid my sister or I would see an [...]
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