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April 15, 2010
Still digging into the archives, this landscape is my entry this week for the Alive for 365 project.
When I saw the shadow side of this hill, I noticed how the triangular dark shape divided the yellow grass from the blue sky. By framing the edge of the hill to the very edge of the frame, I was able to reduce this landscape to basic geometric shapes. I darkened the sky, by over-saturating it with a polarizing filter. This also helped darken the winter-dried grass, which was side-lit by the sun. Saturating the colors like this helped simplify the image for more impact.
[ Pentax Super-A; Pentax-A 24-50mm f4 / Fujichrome RDP 100 ]
[ Zululand, South Africa / circa '89 ]
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April 13, 2010
combining off-camera flash and ambient light
For a semi-guest-post this week, I thought I’d use a photo taken by my friend Josh Lynn, and reverse-engineer the lighting. By scrutinizing the photo, we’ll try and decipher how he set this up. I did of course have the help of double-checking with Josh himself, and by checking the EXIF data.
Josh is a New Jersey wedding photographer - but this photo of our model, Danielle, was taken at a recent photo shootout in Manhattan. Josh led a group of photographers showing some lighting techniques.
So let’s see what we can figure out here …
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April 9, 2010
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Ed Verosky is a photographer whose blog I follow for his writings on photography in general, and also boudoir photography. The news I’d like to share is that he just released an e-book on boudoir photography – 10 ways to improve your boudoir photography.
It is 40 pages, and is packed with solid info and excellent photos – a perfect introduction to the subject. At $9.95 this book is a bargain.
This is a great antidote if you think that other offerings by boudoir experts are over-priced and filled with fluff. Check it out.
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April 8, 2010
balancing flash with available light / ambient exposure
Since many of the questions I get on the Tangents blog relate to balancing flash with available light, I want to pull the replies together into a single article. A reference point again, instead of the replies scattered throughout this website.
The questions most often revolve around:
- exposure metering for available light ,
- exposure metering for TTL flash and ambient light,
- whether to use manual flash or TTL flash,
- flash exposure compensation (FEC),
- choice of aperture,
- maximum flash sync speed,
- metering for off-camera manual flash and ambient light
- choosing our settings to balance manual flash and ambient light,
- whether to drag the shutter, or not.
The answer to the questions about how to balance flash and ambient light, is often along the lines of “it depends”. It really depends on:
- the scenario you have, and
- what you want to achieve.
Now that all sounds quite vague. Being told that you can pretty much “do what you want”, doesn’t help if you don’t even quite know where to start. Most of the answers are in the linked articles there, and on this page on my Top 20 Flash Photography Tips.
But, let’s look at one specific image, and analyze what our options are, and see if we can make sense of it all …
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Filed under: exposure metering, flash photography, lighting, photo shoot, technique — Tags: exposure metering, flash photography, flash photography technique, flash photography techniques, flash photography tips, off-camera lighting for portraits, photography workshop — Neil vN @ 5:38 am
April 7, 2010
This blue sky, super-saturated with a polarizing filter, combined with a brightly colored barn, makes for a striking landscape. This photograph then is my choice this week for the Alive for 365 project.
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April 4, 2010
simple lighting setup for headshots
This is one from a series of images for Graham, to use at casting calls. We did a number of straight-forward portraits at first .. but towards the end of the session went for a more free-form portrait session where Graham performed in front of the camera. This in the end showed a lot more of his personality.
More about the lighting set-up ..
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April 1, 2010
I received the most wonderful compliment from Laura Wilby for my entry this week
in the Alive for 365 project:
“I have to buy this one, even though I already bought the plane print and I’m supposed to be on a budget. This is such a great image! I love the feeling your image have. Neil, I’m reading your lighting book right now and your wedding images have the same feeling as this image. I know that is a lame description, but I can’t always describe visuals.”
It is a great feeling when one of my own photographs that holds meaning for me, also connects with other people. Thanks Laura!
(I have previously posted this image on the Tangents blog, with a description of how it came that I took it.)
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