I don’t always travel with a full complement of photo gear. Sometimes I carry just my Canon G9, which you read about yesterday. On this day, as we walked out of the house, I grabbed a Nikon D300 with the 14-24mm f2.8 lens.I love the wide-angle perspective both for its ability to emphasize foreground...
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Not a prayer
Automatically Wrong
Although it isn’t my favorite camera, my Canon G9 is my preferred carry camera. It’s almost always at my side, even when I’m lugging two D300s and a full complement of lenses and strobes with a tripod strapped over my right shoulder. The compact...
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Beauty Dish Contrast
First, the client bought me dinner so we could talk about our relationship and discuss his needs for the photo shoot to follow. It was my second free meal of the day with the first being fried catfish and green beans with sweet tea....
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Maintaining a high speed – Shutter Speed #6
The day was cloudy, cold and windy. My spirits suffered under the poor conditions and I knew shooting track, even middle school age kids, was going to be difficult. I’d already decided to shoot at f4, the widest opening on my Nikon 300mm lens....
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HDR How-To, Maybe
One of the photos hanging at Java Central tonight is this frame of one of the few barns remaining in Westerville. The road past the barn is well traveled and the small area of farm land around continues to be used for farming with...
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EXIF, IPTC, and beyond
Last week’s Westerville Meetup centered on shooting two models wearing vintage clothing on the streets and sidewalk in the Uptown business district. The clothes were furnished by Cinda Lou’s as were the two women who modeled for our group of about 25 photographers for...
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Creating blur to frame the subject – Shutter Speed #5
Choosing when to use a slow shutter speed to blur an image doesn’t always have to match the subject matter. On the fourth Friday of the month during the summer streets are closed in Uptown Westerville for vendors, groups and associations, performers, and politicians...
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