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world in motion …

May 5, 2008 Neil vN 13 Comments

This image from the recent photo-session with Amy and Nick in Manhattan received a number of comments and questions about the technique.  The basic camera settings for several sequences of images here, were 1/20th (at f8) and 1/10th @ f11.  The image above was one of a sequence at 1/20th.  But there's more to it ...  Read more inside...

this happened in Vegas ..

April 19, 2008 Neil vN 12 Comments

Doug Fairbairn asked me about this image from a recent post on my wedding photography blog, where I showed some images from a Las Vegas destination wedding: Great photos. I’m wondering about the lighting for the second photo - B&G and wedding party walking to camera with sun in background. How did you get so much light on their faces? Was it just reflected from the walkway or what? Too far away to use flash it would seem. Doug .. thank you for the compliments! About the look of that image and the way their faces are lit - this has less to do with the use of flash than it has with  Read more inside...

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