June 19, 2008 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 ...
Tags: Lighting, photography, popular photography magazine, tungsten, White BalanceArticles, Flash, Lighting June 16, 2008 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 ...
Tags: Geographic Composition, Lighting, Money, Passing Down, Photo of the Day, photographyContent, Lighting, personal, potd June 10, 2008 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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Tags: 550 EX, Canon, diffusers, Lighting, photography, snootsCanon, Lighting, personal, podcast, technical, thoughts, tips and tricks, tutorial, Video May 30, 2008 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 ...
Tags: depth of field, diffuse light, Flash, ISO, macro, picture of the dayFlash, Friday Follies, Lighting, personal, potd May 9, 2008 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, ...
Tags: Friday Follies, photo challenge, White BalanceFriday Follies, Lighting, tutorial April 18, 2008 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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