Portrait Photography: The Difference Between Snapshots and Art

Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Digg, Learn | Leave a Comment

So you’re interested in portrait photography, and you want to know what separates snapshots from art? Check out these 8 vitally important concepts from Eric Hamilton for creating better portraits — including lighting, subject, focus, background, composition, texture, color, and exposure.
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How To Read and Understand a Histogram

Posted on December 26, 2007 - Filed Under Learn | Leave a Comment

What is a histogram and what does it tell us about a photograph? A histogram is the graphical version of a table that shows what proportion of cases fall into each of several or many specified categories.
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Gobos, Snoots, Grid-Spots, and Cookies. What Does it all Mean?

Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under Digg, Learn, Lighting | Leave a Comment

Are you familiar with these photography lighting accessories for your flash unit? Check it out on Strobist, there are great photos and descriptions to go along with the funky names.
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Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 1: Program Mode

Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under Digg, Learn | Leave a Comment

In auto mode your camera makes just about all the decisions for you. It’s time to take control, hit the highway, and learn what you can do in program mode. Switching to program mode, however, allows your camera to make some decisions for you, but also puts three things in your control: the flash, the […]

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3 Great Lighting Tutorials

Posted on November 7, 2007 - Filed Under Learn, Lighting, Photographers | 2 Comments

Bert Stephani is a professional photographer based out of Zaventem, Belgium. His work consists of portraiture, kids, weddings and corporate photography. Fortunately, for you and me, he’s videotaped one of his shoots and then walked back through it teaching his techniques and observations along the way. If you’ve not come accross Mr. Stephani […]

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Some Lightroom Tips

Posted on October 23, 2007 - Filed Under Learn, Photoshop, Software | Leave a Comment

If you use Lightroom, you might find some of these tips useful.  The first two were news to me and I know I’ll be using this one:
if you press Shift-4, rather than just 4, it assigns a 4-star rating to the current photo and then immediately brings up the next photo
Thanks to Nycgraphix for the […]

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Are You Getting Great Photos at Your Kid’s Soccer Games?

Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under Learn, Technique | 2 Comments

This is my son’s first year playing soccer. It’s been an entertaining couple of weeks. I’m fired up about the next month or so of soccer matches for a couple of reasons: (1) seeing my son experience team sports for the first time; and (2) great photo opportunities. It’s the latter reason […]

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RAW vs. JPEG

Posted on October 1, 2007 - Filed Under Learn | Leave a Comment

Alphatracks has a new post on the (I would say “age old debate” but that’s not quite fitting . . . yet) seemingly never-ending controversy between the use of RAW or JPEG image formats in digital photography. Personally, I’m a RAW-only shooter. Alphatracks has proposed 3 reasons to shoot JPEGs over RAW:
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Photographer vs. Soccer Mom

Posted on September 24, 2007 - Filed Under Learn, Photographers | 3 Comments

Here’s one worth a read. A poster over at DPReview.com was “testing” his equipment at kids’ soccer games and was confronted by a soccer mom. This is his account:

Went to soccer games testing my equipment. When I finished one field moving to another one, one mom asked me if I have permit to […]

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Make Color POP in Your Pics

Posted on September 22, 2007 - Filed Under Learn, Technique | Leave a Comment

Rich Legg tells us how.
Technorati Tags: color, photos, poloarizer

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