Certain projects benefit from shooting straight, good JPG in-camera and outputting without any processing at all has its benefits. Shooting a birthday party for instance and handing the client a disc at the end of the session involves no more workflow than a quick edit and burn if that is your thing. If you can ...
In order to get better, most of us have to take a lot of photos. In order to progress in the craft, most of us have to shoot often. In order to get better ideas, most of us have to look at a lot of photos. Photography is always a game of giving up something to get something ...
Easy enough to point your camera at a flower and take a photo, but lets look a little deeper than that. Ordinary can become extraordinary with just a change of angle: • get low to the plant, that usually helps a lot • shoot very low looking up for a dramatic perspective • get close, then get closer • put ...
Tell a story, refine the story, get rid of what does not enhance the story. Level your horizons, level architecture, straighten square lines unless you want the slant, tilt and convergence to enhance your story. Do it with purpose. Watch for "catches" in a photograph; things that your eye finds, maybe not at first, but once it ...
The top ten list of things I see that can improve people photography in every day life: Pull people away from the wall, background, surroundings as it is often more flattering. Feel free to break this rule when you know how to do it well. Until then out of focus backgrounds and no shadows cast from ...
I was asked this a few weeks ago and had no answer at first. It was beyond my way of thinking, as I have about 1,000 ideas and desires at any one time in my photographic brain. I am always thinking about it, but not easy to think about how you start the thought processes. ...
From the video recording I did on 12/5/09 with a XH A1. I was running around shooting closeup photos of the entire performance while video taping the entire performance. Viewable as 720p as any higher resolution was too big for YouTube. -Landon
Fixed-Wing or Not This is the choice between an airplane and a helicopter. If you do casual aerial photography anything will work, even a commercial airliner. For serious aerial photography the fixed-wing aircraft can have certain drawbacks depending on what you shoot. Struts, wings, air surfaces often get in the way. Here are a couple things ...
A Chef: • Always looking for the best quality ingredients • Always looking for new flavors • Understands taste and how to get to a desired result to please a palate • Often uses great tools to be consistent with the outcome • Often inventive and pushing the envelope and try something new • Often collects books of recipes and related ...
A RAW workflow can be a very personal thing. Depends on what works for you and gets you to your end goals. I have personally found that a non-destructive RAW workflow allows you to experiment more. Push things around and see what becomes of them. The basics of course are good exposure, good color, good B&W conversion, ...
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