Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Tight Crops
I’ve been reprimanded for straying from my normal domain of portraits, so I thought I’d venture back to more familiar ground. On a similar note to yesterday though, I really like the simplicity of a tight head / shoulder crop for portraits.
I also like really tight depth of fields - I typically use my 85mm [...]
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
New Techniques / Panning
People have comfort zones. Most people prefer not to venture outside our comfort zones, but then, by not extending ourselves, our zones slowly but surely contract.The same is true for photographers. All photographers (myself included) have techniques / styles we’re most happy with. This morning I decided to try to expand my range of techniques, [...]
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Architectural Lines
I’m not normally one for architectural shots. Sure, I take the odd shot of landmarks on holiday, but I’m never happy with them, because they’re almost always shots that have been hundreds of times before, and better executed.
This morning, as I was waiting for my new coffee place to open, I looked up, and saw [...]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Interesting and Low Light Portraits
We have a meeting room at work that I’ve always meant to use to take a portrait. It’s quite dim, with a number of spotlights bouncing off the wall, and a huge oak desk.Both the quantity and quality of light (even though it’s artificial) is lovely, warmed by the colour of the desk.
It’s very easy [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
White Lightboxes
Yesterday I had a jewelry shoot. I quite enjoy shooting jewlery - in the past I’ve only shot against black (velvet is a must as it sucks in all the light, and doesn’t give reflections, even under really strong direct lighting.
I shot most of the pieces in a lightbox, which was well constructed, but unfortunately, [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Random Street Portraits
In the modern day and age, people do seem to be more suspicious of photographers, but there are also some lovely people out there who are happy to be shot.
I was on my way to a meeting this morning, in Central London, and was early. I also noticed how there was a great area of [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Collections, Virtual Copies, and Stacks
When I first got my hands on the Adobe Lightroom beta I was really disappointed. The tutorial videos looked great, but the performance (to be brutally honest) sucked, and I couldnt’ see it replacing Raw Shooter Premium as my RAW converter.As a Raw Shooter Premium user, I was sent a free upgrade to Adobe Photoshop [...]
