March 3, 2009 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 ...
Tags: chart, composition, exposure, mathcomposition February 25, 2009 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 ...
Tags: composer, composition, depth of field, DOF, lensbaby, macro, photography, selective focus, sharpness, SLRArticles, composition, learning, News February 11, 2009 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 ...
Tags: composition, list, Pictures, technique, tipscomposition, education, learning, lists, photography, technical, thoughts February 6, 2009 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 ...
Tags: 350D, aspect ratio, composition, crop, photo, photowalk, potdcomposition, Content, learning, potd January 27, 2009 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 ...
Tags: composition, photography, potdContent, learning, News, personal, photography, potd June 5, 2008 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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