Controlling bright daylight with direct off-camera flash
Controlling bright daylight with direct off-camera flash
Working with Molly K as our model during an personal photography workshop in New York, we put into action the thought-process when using flash in very bright light. There's a specific algorithm that gets us to optimal settings. But, as usual, there's more to a final image than just the numerical settings on the camera ... Read more inside...Podcast interview – Wedding photography tips
Podcast with Ed Verosky - Wedding photography tips
Over the weekend, Ed Verosky did an interview with me for his latest podcast. The topic is wedding photography tips. It's nearly half-an-hour of me motor-mouthing it on various wedding photography related items. Not only does it sound like I am in a rush, I sound serious too! There is one "typo" that I picked up listening to it now. At one point I mention the "first 30 books" on photography. What I meant to say was, the basics covered in the first 30 pages of any good introductory book on photography. I'm sure there are other Read more inside...Vintage photo session and Off-camera flash
Vintage photo session and Off-camera flash
Anyone who regularly follows the Tangents blog or has my 2nd book, off-camera flash photography, might recognize Sarah. When she told me she was visiting New York, I made sure that I squeezed in a photo session with her in my schedule. The weather on the day was grey and drizzly ... enough reason to juice it up with some off-camera flash. And then play with the images in post-processing a bit. On this rainy day there were random pools of water in the street, and it took just a few minutes to find a viewpoint where we could get Sarah's Read more inside...The diminishing value in using a Facebook Page
The diminishing value in using a Facebook Page
In the past week or so, Facebook once again changed things on us. I know, I know, another week, another unannounced roll-out of something new and fabulous on Facebook. This time however, the change is a big deal for photographers who rely on their Facebook Page for marketing. You simply won't reach your audience unless you pay Facebook ... per post. Read more inside...Tips on improving your photo-shoot workflow
Wedding photography - improving your shooting workflow
As a companion piece to the previous two articles • Tips & advice for second shooters at weddings , and • Tips on improving your photography technique, I want to offer some advice on shooting workflow. Not post-production workflow, but rather some things to look out for while shooting. These articles with tips are just as relevant for any area of photography. The techniques here are applicable to any field or level of photography. I feel so strongly about the advice here, that I'd go as far to say that the further Read more inside...Photo-shoot with a model: the progression of an idea
Photographing a model on-location: the progression of an idea
As often happens for me when working a model on location, the final photographs are the result of a progression of an idea, rather than a fully-formed idea from the start. That colorful background came to be because of how I gelled for the flash. It's a technique I've shown a few times, and here it helped me in bringing a blah scenario up to something more eye-catching. The idea is to create an interesting shift in the color balance between your subject and background. It works especially well if the background is not Read more inside...Exposure metering when using video light for photography
Exposure metering when using video light for photography
In response to the article on how to shoot romantic wedding portraits, using video light, someone asked about exposure metering with the video light. "Much in the same vein as using flash, do you establish the ambient exposure first (to your taste) and then add the video light to expose ‘correctly’ for your subject? How do you meter for this video light and therefore adjust the light power to the right level? By chimping on test shots?" While this would certainly be a correct way of doing it, the practical way of doing it, Read more inside...Time-lapse photography tips: Shooting sequences
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Time-lapse photography tips: Shooting sequences
After seeing the breath-taking Time-Lapse photography by MindRelic on Vimeo, I was inspired to buy a motorized Dynamic Perception Stage Zero dolly to also shoot time-lapse that has a cinematic quality to it. If you just keep the camera static, then time-lapse can look good ... but it is when you bring lateral movement to the camera while it is shooting the sequence, that it can look truly impressive. That movement just elevates it above the mundane immediately. The way that the new series of Nikon cameras like the Nikon D4; Nikon Read more inside...Tutorial: Bounce flash photography
Tutorial: Bounce flash photography
An photo of a jazz trumpet player during a session in a club, lit by on-camera bounce flash. Since it's a perfect example of how I use on-camera bounce flash so that it looks nothing like on-camera flash, I'd like to use it to illustrate this summary of on-camera bounce flash technique: The light in this image is nearly all from my flash. The red hue in the background, and spilling onto part of the trumpet and his skin, is from the strong red lights in the night-club. To eliminate this, I under-exposed the ambient light, by choosing my camera Read more inside...- « Previous Page
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