Archive for Lighting

Hot and Cold Lighting

June 19, 2008 8 Comments

We all know that tungsten light is a warmer light (think regular light bulbs) and fluorescents and flash produce cooler lighting. While it makes sense, until I read an article by Peter Kolonia in Popular Photography, I have never thought of combining warm and cool light to produce different effects in a photograph. Since I’ve ...

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Geographic Composition

June 16, 2008 No Comments

Jason Moore has an ongoing activity where photographers from different parts of the globe capture their perspective on various themes. I was invited to join this group of photographers a short time ago, and this is now my second contribution to the activity. It’s quite a bit of fun as it challenges you to think ...

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Usual becomes unusual

June 10, 2008 3 Comments

The tutorial for this Tuesday, you may notice is not your typical Photoshop tip, trick, or tutorial. I took things outside of the desktop and into the real world to show you examples of thinking outside the box when it comes to lighting. By now we are all familiar with Strobist, and the methods he ...

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Better luck next time

May 30, 2008 3 Comments

Heh – I had been so good lately about planning ahead and recording my video podcasts ahead of schedule and just setting a publish time in WordPress, I got on an automatic pilot routine. When that routine got disrupted from some dental and sleep deprivation issues the other day, I didn’t realize until just a ...

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Friday Flights of Fancy

May 9, 2008 No Comments

I was out on a shoot Wednesday and in setting up, I realized I forgot my White Balance card. I always used my WhiBal card to get accurate settings – it’s the cornerstone of my entire workflow! I was sweating bullets…what would I do? Well, I’d read about white balancing en masse off the eyes, ...

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Friday Night Lighting…(and a funny)

April 18, 2008 No Comments

Normally Frida posts are filled with humor, funny and generally stuff that is trivia to help keep us all grounded in reality and realize that there is more to life with photography. I am starting to get a little of a backlog with the projects I’ve been working on though, so I am goig to ...

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Wordless Wednesday #003 – Summertime Fun

Avoiding Red Eye

A common side effect of introducing flash on your subjects is that of "red eye" - those garish red...

Follow Up: Radio Station Photo Theft

Earlier today, I posted the article about a radio station stealing images from a competitor station.  After publishing the...

Radio Station Steals Photos

...the cost of hiring a lawyer and delay tactics that the station can make to draw out the process...

The Benefit of Company

...Socializing is a good thing - we are social creatures, and this is even more true with photographers. ...