It was the last farmers market of the season in Uptown Westerville and although I’d visited the market every Wednesday afternoon I wasn’t pleased with most of the portraits, or attempted portraits, I’d taken during the three hours it was open for business. This day I tossed my Lastolite EzyBox in the trunk of the [...]
I’ve waited for this photo for several weeks. The scene has happened a number of times but usually too cluttered in the background or lacking the touch of a hand on the shoulder. As luck would have it, this was the last father-son duo to leave the fields. They stayed for throwing practice past the [...]
Sometimes a photo with a wide dynamic range, such as this photo of a thin layer of fog lit by the sun rising over a treeline, requires multiple layers of Photoshop editing to create the final image. .
This photo (above) was shot with the Nikon D5000 in aperture priority following an afternoon rain storm. The same lilypad (below) was shot with my iPhone. Read about the shoot and the comparison at Gary Gardiner’s site.
| A late afternoon storm front pushes clear skies away as it arrives with strong winds, rain, lighting and thunder on a late spring afternoon. I began the afternoon shooting the barn at left in cloudy skies with fluffy clouds and a scattering of streaks of warm light creating shadows and contrast both for my [...]
After several evenings of wanting to shoot this small carnival at Westerville and Morse Roads I found enough time to make the trip worthy. As luck would have it, as I arrived lightning startled the few customers as it traveled across the northern skyline. The arrival of strong wind gusts promised to carry the storm [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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