October 17, 2011 Sometimes we get so focused on being more creative, or challenging ourselves to see things different, we can lose sight of some of the fundamentals of photography. I recently did just that – submitting an image to a vendor for printing and completely missed doing some post production work on the edges. Luckily, the vendor ...
January 18, 2010 It’s been a while since I’ve done a hardware review, and I realized that when the folks at Expo Imaging had sent me the Rayflash to review, I had also received an Expodisc. I know I recorded the video for it, but for some reason it never got published, as the two were meant to ...
Tags: Expodisc, expoimaging, hardware, Lighting, review, White Balanceeducation, hardware, Hardware Reviews, News, photography, photography gear, Product Review 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 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 February 25, 2008 As the weekend fades into the recesses of time, it leaves a reminder with me in the form of muscle failure from the screened in porch project. For regular readers (the half dozen or so)…you may recall me having posted in passing about the porch before. Well, enough was enough for me and I went ...
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