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Setting bracketing exposures – aperture priority

March 3, 2009 12 Comments

Over the past few years, I’ve had several people ask me how to set bracketing exposures on camera bodies for multiple exposures.  When I say multiple exposures here, I am talking in excess of 3 shots.  The reason for this is because by default, most Canon cameras (at least all the ones I’ve put my ...

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The Lensbaby Composer

February 25, 2009 No Comments

For those of you that are regular podcast listeners, you know I talked recently about the Lensbaby Composer and what it can do for your photos.  In the podcast you heard the terms “selective focus” but the term is kind of hard to explain without a visual, so I thought I might be able to ...

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Wanna Get Lucky?

February 11, 2009 2 Comments

How many times have you seen a picture where it just made you say “WOW!  I wish I could capture something like that!”  And, you ask the person, “How’d you get that shot?”  Typically you’ll get an answer like “Just got lucky I guess.”  Well, I am not sure I buy into that.  Does luck ...

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The Crop Factor…

February 6, 2009 5 Comments

First off, my apologies for the absenteeism yesterday.  After a really fun photo shoot with some friends in downtown Denver (more on that next week), I got home super late (by working standards – my shift is 7-4 and I need to take a bus an hour to get there…so I leave at 6, which ...

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Defining Your Image Composition

January 27, 2009 4 Comments

Composition in photography can have many origins.  You can take a pretty concrete subject and place it in an interesting environment.  The Rule of Thirds is one that is often used when creating photographic compositions.  Other times, the way that lines or curves within a scene are the compelling factor.  Architectural images use the idea ...

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Look for Lines

June 5, 2008 1 Comment

For this week’s edition of “Thursday Thoughts”, I’d like to take a look at the subject of composition. We always are striving to enhance our composition, either by understanding the rules of composition better, or by pushing the envelope in new directions. With the explosion of digital photography, the decreased price of entry, and the ...

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Third Generation Cameras

The latest and greatest from the podcast laboratory is a discussion with my good friend Kerry Garrison, and we...

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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...