Photographers, what have you done today for your business?
Photographers, what have YOU done today to advance your business?
How serious are you about succeeding as a photographer in your business, whether part-time or full-time? I know, I know, we are all serious about photography. After all, we all have a passion for photography. So there's that. But really, how serious are you, and what are you doing to advance your photography career? A while back I did a presentation to a group of photographers, and as usual, there are distractions that you as the presenter have to overcome and work against. Distractions can be as crazy as competing Read more inside...Headshot photography: What makes for good head shots?
Headshot photography: What makes for a good headshot?
A few out-takes mixed with a few keepers from this headshot photo session, and it helps illustrate some of the process of getting to a good headshot. The lighting is key. Posing is important. But there's another aspect that makes a great headshot - your subject's personality needs to come shining through. So, yes, it is in the lighting. It is in the posing. It's in the expression ... but a very important key is the personality of the photographer - how to make your subject feel relaxed. How to make the photography not feel like Read more inside...review: Nikon D4S auto-focus / AF performance
review: Nikon D4S auto-focus / AF performance
The Nikon D4s (B&H / Amazon) updates the already-awesome Nikon D4. The short summary lists some improvements, which while they may appear incremental, overall make for a solid new release by Nikon: - a newly designed sensor, offering better high-ISO performance, - an additional AF mode has been added - Group Area AF - for more accurate subject tracking, - 11 fps continuous shooting with continuous AE/AF (compared to the 10 fps of the D4) - 'small' Raw size of 8 Mpx, - 1080/60p video - faster processing with the new Read more inside...My hard drive has died – what should I do?
My hard drive has died – what should I do?
"My hard drive has died – what should I do right now!? I don't know what to do!" These were the sounds the angry woman next to me at the Apple Store counter made, while crying about her hard disc that had died. "But it was fine this morning!" My sympathy was more with the blue-shirted geniuses who took her anger with a calmness that was impressive. My sympathy for her? Well, I just thought to myself, "Now here is someone who doesn't understand the concept of single point of failure." Back your data up, all the time. Constantly. Read more inside...B&W infrared photography – Urban landscapes
B&W infrared photography - Urban landscapes
Funny how personal projects often work - there's the initial enthusiasm, and then life and work takes over. Last year I bought a used Canon 5D mark II that had been converted to Infra-Red. I did take it out twice for walkabouts in New York - and posted the initial results. But then the work-load added up, and then a particularly harsh winter where it was just too miserable outside to go exploring in the city - and I never took it out again, until now. With the weather improving now and the sun shining, it was just a good time to go out Read more inside...Post-processing workflow: How to deal with color banding
Post-processing workflow: How to deal with color banding / posterization
If you've ever noticed banding or posterization in your photos, where you'd expect solid colors, then there's a relatively easy fix for it. This posterization effect appears as bands of colors, where the transitions between similar tones aren't smooth, but have jagged edges instead. It is caused by the 8-bit JPG not having enough data to give you a smooth gradient when large blocks of color slowly change. You'll often see it in the blue sky in landscapes, or as in this case, with large areas of color in the Read more inside...After Dark photography education
After Dark photography education
This photograph was taken at one of the stations at the After Dark workshops. Two strip lights on either side, freezing this acrobatic performer doing jumps on his board. Pretty wild, I think. "Pretty wild" would also sum up the general experience of attending the After Dark workshops. This is where After Dark differs from other workshops and conventions, in my opinion. Just a simple description of the workshop as being 3 days of a series of seminars and demonstrations, doesn't quite encompass it ... Read more inside...slideshow: Favorite images – wedding in Melbourne, Australia
Peiwen & Eric - wedding in Melbourne, Australia - slideshow
I've shown a few images already of the wedding I photographed in Melbourne, Australia, early in March 2014. Everything fell into place during our visit to Australia - and on the wedding day itself - great weather, lovely people, a truly fantastic couple. It's a huge honor indeed that Eric reached out to my last year, enquiring whether I'd be up for photographing his and Peiwen's wedding in Melbourne. And yes, I did feel a lot of pressure. The images dared not be mediocre! But Eric and Peiwen really were great to work Read more inside...software review: Capture One Pro v7 RAW Converter tests
software review: Capture One Pro v7 RAW Converter Tests
guest article by: Adrian Mackay wedding photographers (Adrian is better known as Trev in the Tangents forum) Recently I have been trialling the Capture One Pro v7 Raw Converter to see if I could get my files better from the get-go before I started tweaking in Photoshop. Short Verdict: Simply outstanding; makes ACR and Lightroom look very mediocre compared to Capture One Pro v7 in initial rendering of images. Now, to be clear, I am not doing full edits within it like a lot of people do in Read more inside...- « Previous Page
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