Location shooting before the shoot

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Here’s yet another iPhone app that’s certainly worthy of exploring for photographers looking to quickly communicate with their clients and explore ways to better relate to  their expectations for a shoot. PhotoCamp Ohio is set for April 16, at Heritage Park in Westerville. It’s a day-long series of seminars and workshops for photographers. One of [...]

iPhone app solves dynamic range problem

iPhone HDR photo processed with an app

Photographers coming to tonight’s Meetup in Westerville are supposed to bring along something photo-related that they received at Christmas. We’ll get to see each others gifts and hear about how the new equipment will help them make better photos. I’m getting a head start. One of the things I received was an iTunes gift card. [...]

From a different angle

barn in afternoon light

Several days a week I pick up the granddaughter after basketball practice. I try to arrive early, especially in the winter, so she doesn’t have to stand around and wait on me to arrive. Some days my arrival time is early enough that I can work the area for photo possibilities. One scene that had [...]

Five Exposures

Corn Dogs and the five exposure roll of film

When budgets would get tight, as they always did at the end of the year, the AP’s main office in New York would modify every film supply order changing requests for 36 exposure rolls into orders for 24 exposure rolls. The intended purpose was economy during shooting. Logic was supposed to show that a photographer, [...]

Christmas tree sales manager portrait with G11

Christmas trees sales lot manager portrait G11 auto aperture

It’s that time of  the year again when I begin regular visits to the Christmas tree lot at Glengary Square on Westerville Road. The sales lot always opens on the day after Thanksgiving and yesterday was no different than any others. Everyone who works there knows me and my cameras. When I showed up with [...]

6,000 My Final Photos and counting

My Final Photo number 6,000

I knew Sunday would be the day I’d shoot the 6,000th photo in the My Final Photo collection. The series of daily photos began on November 15, 2004, about two weeks after I left The AP for “retirement.” The collection would now number 6,000, more than one photo a day as some days I’d posted [...]

Not a prayer

Rosary prayer at sunset

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 objects [...]

Automatically Wrong

Automatic exposure automatically wrong Canon G9

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 camera has high resolution, relatively low noise at lower ISO settings, [...]

Beauty Dish Contrast

Mixed Marrtial Arts Fighters Lumodi Beauty Dish

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. The evening meal was chicken parmigiana with cheese ravioli and red [...]

Creating blur to frame the subject – Shutter Speed #5

Blurred photos foreground background emphasis

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 to set up spaces to display their wares and attitudes. At [...]