I’m always looking for easy ways to effectively demonstrate immutable photo techniques. While on a walk earlier this week I decided to use the spray from an inadvertently activated water spigot to demonstrate shutter speed techniques for blurring and stopping action. The first photo, shot at 1/500th of a second, has nearly stopped the droplets [...]
When I have the time between shoots or before heading home, I enjoy a walk in Uptown Westerville, always with a camera in hand. Sometimes the camera is an iPhone. Sometimes it’s a D300 and a full complement of lenses. The territory is familiar, usually along alleys, roadways, and sidewalks I’ve traveled before on [...]
One of the joys of shooting RAW is the Clarity slider in Camera Raw for Photoshop and Lightroom. The typical expectation for this slider is to increase contrast in the mid-tones adding a degree of sharpness to the center of a histogram. The edges of the photo, the shadows and highlights, are untouched except in [...]
My grandson Owen congratulated me last night for my photo of one of his favorite plants, the Venus Fly Trap. He also took the time to make sure I understood how the small bristles on the interior of the plant signal the intrusion of a possible meal and how the longer spikes on the edges [...]
New York state-based photographer Paul Duncan has put together a nine-minute video that does a great job of explaining how strobes properly sync with shutters and why 1/250th of a second is the upper limit for most digital single lens reflex cameras. [ More from Paul Duncan ] Share and Enjoy:
When the weather is terrible it’s time to work, safely Back in the day, when I was a working newsman, I’d begin the day by confirming the previous night’s weather report with a look out the window or listen to the gleeful screams of my kids who just learned they’d been given a day of [...]
and Camera Bits Camera Bits, the programming greats behind Photo Mechanic, is celebrating its 15th anniversary by giving us a birthday gift. The full version of Photo Mechanic is on sale for $60. That’s much less than the normal $150 price for the full version. If you’ve heard me talk about Photo Mechanic or read [...]
You’d like John. He’s an actor, handsome, articulate, and makes a fine photo subject. You might like him so much you’d want to use this photo I have on Flickr to illustrate a story in your magazine about the struggles of actors searching for meaningful work. What’s the best way to know exactly who owns [...]
Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits I’m guessing but willing to bet a very large sum that the most common digital asset management software on a news photographer’s computer is Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits. I’ve used this almost perfect piece of DAM software since the day it first became available in 1996. Its evolution has [...]
Please, please, please, set the proper date and time on your cameras. It’s easy to do and may save you a some problems as you work through workflow solutions for your system. This is even more important if you are shooting with more than one camera or are shooting the same assignment or event with [...]
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