about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I wrote a post recently regarding my use of this process and thought it would be prudent to give you guys a little write-up on to set up the software to get the job done… The main reason to do this is to get your photos on a large screen immediately. If you’re using Lightroom 3,
about 1 year ago - No comments
Had an idea pop into my head the other day which involved getting 5 people to sit still and look into the lens… not a problem…. yeah right… When I started doing this flash photography thing I had a lightstand, one shoot-through umbrella, a ttl cable and one flash.. You can do a lot with
about 1 year ago - No comments
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me if would shoot some photos of him and his kids. This isn’t something I normally do and as this was meant to be photos that he and his wife wanted framed and hung in the livingroom I was pretty nervous about getting it right
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
I’ve been working on getting better at post processing, more specifically the so called Dave Hill look, or should I call it the Jill Greenberg look… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love the work of Rian Flynn… Lately though I’ve been looking into how to produce the post processed looks
about 1 year ago - No comments
Say what ever you like, but when I go all in on a project, I go all in… Read on to find out just how much… Slowly but steadily, I’m gaining more and more faith in my abilities as a photographer, I find that what I envision before hand, pretty much turns out the way
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
After reading about the photography contest that Nicolai Brix announced earlier this month, I decided I would have a go and enter a photo of my own. Read on to get a “behind the scenes” look at how I produced the shot… I’m not really a man for contests as such, but the desire to
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Continuing the need to play around with ambient light and a shallow depth of field, inspired by Nicolai Brix blog post about natural light, I took one of my 14 day old son with his grandmother, using only the light from a big window. After several tries we managed to find an angle where you
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
Lightroom Lab made a great video on how to use keywords in Lightroom more effectively. For some reason you can’t get a time line while watching this in in my blog, so head over to Vimeo to get all the features.. http://vimeo.com/7778325 Related posts:Great Lightroom links! How to retouch eyes i Lightroom 2 Uploading to
about 2 years ago - No comments
I attended an Elite officiating Course a couple of weeks ago, and we ended up doing my first large group shot.. I took this with my Canon 1000D mounted on my Manfrotto 055xPROB stand with the EF-S 18-55 IS lens. I used two Cactus KF-36 manual flash units and one Canon 430EX II, all fired
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
hmmm… Mr. Brix would ask me from time to time during the workshop if I learned anything….. I’ll get back to that later… Early Saturday morning I woke up after a restless night… This was the first time in a long time where I weren’t able to sleep due to sheer excitement over, well anything…
While surfing the web, with my trusty new sidekick, the HTC Legend, I stumbled upon this article about noise reduction, and how Lightroom 2 actually does an okay job at it, of you know what you’re doing.
about 2 years ago
Thanks for the plug!
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