May
14
2012Just a quick note as I pack for a trip to San Francisco. I was packing my trusty Timbuktu of Holding when all the loose little bits and bobs started to bug me. As much as I love the portability and simplicity of speedlights, they always bring with them a retinue of necessary gadgets. Batteries and chargers and gels and light mods and everything. There’s so much of it, and it’s all so tiny. Eventually the clutter got too much and I grabbed the unused case for my portable softbox; lo and behold, everything fit perfectly.
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May
14
2012Typically, car and motorcycle photography is a pretty involved affair. Combining product photography’s attention to detail with studio photography’s size and scale often results in needing lots of lights, gear, and help. But just because you don’t have a lot of light (or any light, as the case may be) doesn’t mean you can’t still cook up a pretty cool shot of your ride with a little creative post-processing.
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May
07
2012The nice thing about doing post on landscapes is that you have a much wider margin of tolerance than you do with portraits. With people, it’s easy to tell if the color temperature is off, or if you cranked the clarity a little too high in post. But with landscapes, the sky is the limit (har har); you want blurry purple mountains over super-contrasty blue grass below a foreboding red sky? Knock yourself out.
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May
04
2012I was four or five paragraphs into a relatively meaty—and perhaps somewhat ranty—post when I realized that I’m probably better off sticking to the old adage of never bringing up politics or religion in polite company. Especially since my posts’ comment threads are often such hotbeds of intense discourse, steeped in controversy and debate.
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Apr
30
2012This week’s episode brings a shocking twist ending when, after spending most of the time developing the image as a black & white, I change my mind at the last minute and decide to switch it back to color! And then I change my mind about something again, later on in the episode (see if you can spot it).
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