Studio Photography is too often the realm of pristine yards of seamless paper (white or black) laid out in a wrinkle-free infinite horizon-styled manner. The unreal surface is punctuated with a beautiful model and lit with exquisite detail. Make-up artists and hair stylists are often employed....
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on Mon, Mar 28 2011
Filed under: Photography, lighting, studio, Model, Rental Props, Props, Prop It Up
I’ve written about this subject before. The previous article was concerned with using fill flash to help illuminate the shadowed portions of wildlife in extremely bright situations. What about when the light is almost gone? This Bighorn Sheep at Badlands National Park conveniently posed at dusk-last...
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on Fri, Dec 17 2010
Filed under: Photography, Technique, lighting, Bighorn Sheep, get it right in-camera, fill flash, Badlands National Park, ambient light
Who says you have to hold a camera just one or two ways? Same subject-four consecutive shots-four very different looks If you have ever been bored enough to watch a sundial all day you probably have figured out what is different in these four shots. The rose, shot on a cloudy and rainy day was [...]
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on Thu, Sep 30 2010
Filed under: Photography, Technique, flash, lighting, Macro, point and shoot, rotation
Light pollution is a real problem-especially for the night-time long-exposure crowd. You never think about the cumulative effect of reflected photons until you allow a device to gather them for you over a period of time. Case in point: The forecast for Aurora Borealis was favorable last Saturday...
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on Tue, May 11 2010
Filed under: Photography, Opinions and Musings, lighting, Lake Superior, northern lights, Star Trails, Shovel Point, light pollution
You have to say the title out-loud to get it~ Some of you may remember a previous entry when I was feeling froggy. I wrote about using field lights at night for finding and photographing frogs in Costa Rica and then applying correct white balancing. Though we searched diligently, no frogs were found...
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on Fri, Apr 30 2010
Filed under: Photography, Behind the Shot, Travel, lighting, Costa Rica, frog, poison-dart frog, strawberry frog, blue-jeans frog, rainforest