Entries Tagged as 'thoughts'

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Usual becomes unusual

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 [...]

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Maintenance Monday (and a book review…kind of)

Hey all, it’s been a busy couple of days for the blog. I’ve been doing some research and maintenance on the blog to try and keep things interesting and to hopefully let more people know about the articles, essays, tips, tricks, techniques, and such that I’ve been sharing now for the past 9 months. I [...]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Smell the Roses

Yes, we love this craft of photography, and we could spend every waking hour studying nuances of esoteric subjects related to the field, and peeping at the pixels of countless photos, analyzing techniques, and all that stuff. That wouldn’t be a very balanced existence though, and through having some balance, we can actually probably better [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Quality versus quantity

“Okay, I’m done.”
“That’s it? You’ve only been shooting for ten minutes!”
“Yep, got about 50 shots, I should have 4-6 proofs for you from that bunch.”
“So we’re done?”
“Pretty much…I mean I can keep shooting, but there’s really no point, it’ll just be duplicates of the same stuff.”
This was the dialog I had with a co-worker [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Monday “McNallyisms”

Thanks to David Hobby over at Strobist for posting this on Saturday - apparently I have been missing the boat on videos lately as Google has a pretty extensive video archive of well-known people that they get to come out to the campus in CA and speak for a short while. David [...]