This week's guest blog post is by a Calgary wedding photographer, Mark Pawlyszyn. Mark's style in his wedding photography has steadily become more impressive over the course of just a few years. As such I am very honored that he agreed to a guest spot on the Tangents blog.
review: Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II
review: Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II
I've been very happy with the older 70-200mm f2.8 VR telephoto zoom. Even even though the edges are softer than the center, it never bothered me. With weddings, I am mostly only interested in the center portions of the image being super-crisp. Similarly, the vignetting didn't bother me. I usually add more vignetting in post-processing anyway. Still, I ordered the new Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II (affiliate). My first impression - it is a beautiful lens! Doing a few test shots around the house, and was immediately Read more inside...alive for 365 – week 4 – cute phone box
I am sure the designer of this phone box intended for it to have this distinctly cartoon-like face. When I saw this, it instantly drew my attention. It really looked to me like a constantly-surprised wide-eyed face. Something out of Disney's animated movie, Beauty & The Beast. This then is my choice then for this week's entry in the Alive for 365 project. The photograph had some Photoshop work done to it to give it much more snap than the straight-out-of-the-camera version. Oh, and the lighting was bounce flash with available light ... Read more inside...
Flash photography tips – Start with the ambient exposure
Flash photography tips - Start with the ambient exposure
An icy cold day in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan ... and a brave model that insisted on going bare feet during this Photo Shootout in New York. There were many familiar faces in today's group amongst the new. Thank you to everyone who came up to me to introduce themselves, or re-introduce themselves. I gave some instruction on some of the basics of manual off-camera flash to the group. We worked with a Q-flash and a softbox (and sometimes without the softbox), and a bunch of Pocketwizards that I handed to anyone in Read more inside...lighting for boudoir photo sessions
lighting for boudoir photo sessions
The one type of photo session where I work the most at getting my lighting just right, is with a boudoir session. These intimate photo sessions can be quite a challenge since you have to get a variety of looks in a short time. For this you have to not only concentrate on posing and angles, but also concentrate on the lighting. On top of that, you have to make sure your model or client is comfortable and relaxed at all times. The session has to be fun and really show her off at her best. I bring a variety of lighting equipment to these shoots - Read more inside...Advantages of a higher max flash-sync speed
Advantages of a higher max flash-sync speed
A typical scenario we face, photographing people in bright sunlight - we have to add flash to balance them against the much brighter background. The thought-process or algorithm in deciding on camera settings, is carefully explained in this article: Controlling bright daylight w/ direct off-camera flash. What max flash sync speed is, and why understanding the impact of max flash sync speed is on balancing flash with ambient, is explained in that tutorial: Max flash sync speed. Now that we have all that under our knee, the question might Read more inside...flash & low ambient light – adapting during an outdoor wedding ceremony
wedding photography: flash and low ambient light - adapting during the shoot
I'm often asked what I would do when I encounter a situation where you need to use flash, but there is no easy way to bounce flash. My flippant answer is ... you're screwed! Well, not really. My advice is that you have to improvise and in some way of finesse your use of light. In tough situations, you still want to try and shy away from using direct on-camera flash whenever possible. Direct on-camera flash as the main source of light is rarely aesthetically the best choice. Read more inside...Photoshop tips – avoiding moiré when resizing
Photoshop tips - avoiding moiré when resizing
When you resize an image with repetitive patterns, you stand the chance that the pattern itself will form another pattern. This is called moiré. When I resized this image for web display, I had to take care to make sure the blue window shutters didn't generate a moiré pattern. By going from the original 12 megapizel image (4288 pixels wide), directly down to 600 pixels in a single adjustment .. .. I get an image where the detail looks like this: You can see the moiré pattern there in the blue window blinds as a diagonal Read more inside...combining flash and ambient light
combining flash and ambient light
Going by the emails that I receive, one of the areas that many photographers struggle with is that of combining ambient exposure and flash exposure. This question is also expressed in other ways. It can be a frustrated, "where do we even start?" I also often see it expressed as an involved step-by-step deconstruction of technique, making the entire process more complex than it is. In reply to that, and many other emails I've received in the past few months, I'd like to offer an analysis of a few images from a recent shoot. One of my Read more inside...2009 overview – my favorite wedding images
best images of 2009 - Neil van Niekerk - New Jersey wedding photographer
2009 was another crazy-busy year for me. As regular readers of the Tangents blog will know, the majority of my work is as a New Jersey wedding photographer. This also includes the various photo sessions, as well as the wedding albums that had to be designed. Adding to my crazy schedule were the 17 photography workshops that I presented across the USA; and 4 sold-out workshops in the UK and Ireland! Regulars here will also know that another major event was my book on flash photography that was released in Read more inside...- « Previous Page
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