Thursday, February 28, 2008

fotofeed4 - Wall Space Solo Show!

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  • Wall Space Solo Show!

    Front of Postcard for my Wall Space Solo Show If you are in the Seattle area, please join me at Wall Space Gallery March 6th from 6-8pm for the artist reception for my first solo show, Introspection. Very exciting. :) The show includes a collection of images from my new series, Between, my last series, On Waking Dreams, and this image of Blue from the Instinct series. Can't thank the wonderful and talented Crista Dix enough for all of her hard work in putting the show together. Other exciting news... I'm beyond thrilled to announce that Soulcatcher Studio in Santa Fe now represents my work. Also, I'm featured in the March/April issue of Camera Arts and the Spring issue of PDN EDU which comes out in a few weeks. And you can catch me exhibiting my work along side some exceptional photographers at the Palm Springs Photo Festival on March 30th from 3-6pm. If you're attending or if you live in the area stop on by to say howdy. I'll be the one with the blurry pictures and the Stetson. Yes, Stetson. I rarely go anywhere without one. Oh, and I nearly forgot---I'll be at the third session of Fotofest. If you're in the area, hope to see you at Open Portfolio Review Night on Wednesday, March 19 at 7 pm at the Doubletree Hotel-Houston Downtown. Finally! A place I can wear my Stetsons and not look (too) out of place. Yeehah! Scaring you, huh? I'll pop some snaps up from the solo show next week. Hope to see you there!




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  • A Friendly DSLR - The Olympus E-3
    The 10 mp touting E-3 is a friendly little critter. Most of the shooting options rely on the front and rear dials to control.  These control aperture and shutter speed - until you press a modifier button and then they control other shooting options.  These are pretty easy to get to grips with without doing [...]


  • My First Portrait Shoots
    A friend of mine founded an internet start-up last summer called Bazaaria. It's a platform that allows you to swap products as well as sell and buy them. Right now it is only available to a german speaking audience but we hope to change that in the future. I say we, because I have been working for him / with him since December.
    For the company that does the PR he needed some portrait shots of himself- Since we are still short on cash, we decided that we'd try to do it ourselves.
    It was a fun experience even though I had a lot of trouble to get my external flash to go off at first. But in the end I took over 400 pictures of him (on two different days) and we decided on approx. 30 pictures we gave to the PR agency.
    It was the first time that I shot some portraits and while that in itself isn't that hard to do, lighting is the key to those images. Because lighting is soo more important when you want to get an expressive portrait of someone. My other problem was to get my friend to loosen up and smile at me at least once in a while and look like he normally does. Because I think that is the key for portrait shooting - you want to depict the people like they really are. You want to capture a bit of their spirit, I guess. I think I did pretty good, even though there are a lot of pictures where even I wouldn't recognize him... What I am proud of is that some shots are very creative and that some almost look like they belong in a magazine. In they end we also did some shots in which I should be, too, so I thethered my camera to my laptop - also a first. It was a fun experience, even though most of the pictures were not usable, since either Paul or I were looking funny in the picture. But we found at least two, in which both of us look like our normal selfs. If you are reading this per RSS - there are additional photos in the article on the website :)



  • Sigma DP-1 sample photos
    …one step closer to release!  Sigma has added a gallery of sample photos from the DP-1.  The images look very good, I’m impressed.  I’d love to play with some .raw files though…  Most are at iso 100, but there is one at 400 and one at 800 right at the bottom, both look great - [...]


  • From the "why didn't I think of that?" files…
    I recently read about a great idea for a new slr innovation over at photographyblog.com.  Zoltan Avra-Toth proposes an entirely new focus mode for modern SLRs.  Frankly I am somewhat surprised no camera maker has thought of/implemented this before as it would be pretty easy to do from a technical point of view.  Anyway, what [...]




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Sunday, February 24, 2008

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  • Tech-Talk: Wordpress-Theme aktualisiert, Browser-Check
    Da ich nun schon mit meinem letzten Beitrag thematisch von der Fotografie abgekommen bin, hier noch ein paar technische Anmerkungen zum Schauplatz: Ich war in letzter Zeit schwer am Überlegen, das Template zu wechseln, da das aktuelle (Internet-Sharing genannt, s. Footer) sich eher schlecht mit verschiedenen Browsern verträgt. So zumindest meine Info von vor Monaten. Und [...]


  • Library of Congress goes Flickr!
    The Library of Congress has joined up with the new mellinium (and WEB 2.0) to showcase some of it’s fantastic FSA (Farm Security Administration) collection of copyright-free images.


  • Pond's Edge
    Posted on January 22, 2008

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  • Mein erster PC oder: Welt ohne WWW
    And now for something completely different Beim Aufräumen findet sich manchmal hier und da etwas, das einen nostalgischen Rückblick erlaubt: die Rechnung meines ersten PCs. Ausgegraben: Die Rechnung für meinen ersten PC   Vor vierzehn Jahren bin ich also mit einem Zweihundertsechsundfünfzigstel meines heutigen RAM-Speichers ausgekommen. Der 486er mit SCSI-Controller war damals schon für private Zwecke eher ein Mercedes, [...]


  • Photojournals - Achromatic World Through My Glass #5
    Party at Karaoke Store, San Francisco, CA



  • The Piano Tuner
    I got the piano tuned the other day. Hurray! It sounds wonderful and it’s actually easier to play now that the tension on each key has been adjusted. But taking advantage of an open piano, I asked the tuner if he minded if I took some pictures over his shoulder. It [...]


  • Nikon sells out!
    From the PMA (Photo Marketers Association) comes news that Nikon has sold out it’s inventory of the D40x 10mp camera in Japan. They also bring news that Nikon will increase it’s production of the new D300 and D3 model cameras. They will be making 70,000 units a month of the D300! That’s a lot of expensive [...]




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    Saturday, February 23, 2008

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    • Lumière céleste

      La vie est comme un arc-en-ciel: il faut de la pluie et du soleil pour en voir les couleurs.Anonyme




    • Meetup Assignment: Group Shot
      For those of you attending meetups, here's a thought: Why not take the opportunity to try a cool group shot?

      That's what the folks at the South Bay (SF / Silicon Valley area) did.

      You have a roomful of lighting gear, subjects and (presumably) thinking photographers. What more do you need?

      As line-em-ups go, the above example is pretty cool. But you can also get a little more conceptual with it: Make a quick, well-lit shot of everyone there as an exercise. Then maybe grab four or five people and try your hand at an album cover concept, or an ESPN Magazine cover of an offensive line. Play with it a little.

      I can tell you that I am working on a group shot using a coupla dozen readers that will raise the bar a little bit. (I'd tell you more, but I'd have to kill you.)

      And if you want to keep tabs on local meetups, you can easily do so by searching in the drop-down menu on the sidebar.

      -30-


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    • Westcott PhotoBasics: Learn to Light, the Arthur Murray Way!
      FJ Westcott, makers of our much-beloved double-fold umbrellas, has announced a new series of reasonably priced monobloc strobes.

      (Yeah, yeah, Dave -- them and everybody else at PMA this year...)

      But no, wait -- Westcott is including with the lights an instructional DVD and a full-size floor chart showing you where to actually place your lights when you shoot people.

      Clunky though the "lighting mat" idea may be, you have to give Westcott props for picking the ball and teaching its end users about at least how to begin to light with their new flashes. That is way cool.

      More on this Westcott's sprouting of educational antlers after the jump.
      _______________________

      Westcott's new line of flashes are called "StrobeLites". They are 150- and 200-watt-second AC flashes, designed as an all-in-one unit. They are best suited for people- and small-product shooters who wants to get into controlled, quality light for not too much money.

      You really have to give Westcott props for including a 2-hour instructional DVD in the "educational kit" packages, along with the floor mat thing.

      Is it perfect? No, but it is a big step in the right direction.

      FWIW, Elinchrom is also doing the DVD thing with the D-Lites. IMO, the companies that get the idea of leveraging their lighting gear with educational content add huge value to the proposition, at very little marginal cost.

      Question: Why does it fall to a middle-aged newspaper shooter to create an ongoing conversation about light? Because no one else was doing it in any kind of comprehensive manner. Consider the economic incentive for a lighting company selling modestly priced gear to have created what we all have built here together.

      And yet to date, not a single one has even tried it on a consistent basis. I can say that from my conversations with other lighting gear folks, Westcott is not the only one starting to see the value in educating its customers, both current and potential.

      Will Westcott take the education ball and run with it? The idea of merging basic lighting gear with basic education is a great start. This creates an informed shooter with each purchase, and grows the pie for all lighting gear manufacturers.

      In a crowded field of "me-too" small, AC strobes, Westcott has differentiated themselves from the pack not by the design of their strobes but by their idea of educating new lighting photographers. Although, to be fair I have not seen one yet. The flashes themselves could be the cat's meow, for all I know.

      Way to go, Westcott. Let's hope they are not the last to do this kind of thing.

      And while we have you Westcott folks on the line, I would like to ask a teensy-weensy favor on behalf of roughly 200,000 other photographers in the room with us: On the next double-fold umbrella run, could you maybe start including a two-inch plug of solid plastic in the end of the telescoping, hollow umbrella shafts?

      That way we won't have to jam pencils up into them to make them the perfect little umbrellas.
      _________________________

      :: Westcott StrobeLite Kits Page (See "Educational Kits") ::
      :: StrobeLites Tech Specs PDF ::


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    • Division du territoire

      Durant la période d'automne, les différentes couleurs semblent accentuer encore plus les différentes divisions que l'humain a donné au territoire qu'il occupe.




    • Ciel de février

      Le ciel est de plus en plus souvent dégagé, le soleil plus présent, les journées plus longues, le temps est beaucoup plus agréable.




    • More Bert, On Location

      It's my birthday today. So I am taking the day off and handing the keys over to "Baritone Bert" Stephani, who is back with another one of his smooth-voiced, small-flash lighting videos from Confessions of a Photographer.

      For the newbs, note how quickly and easily Bert constantly adjusts his lighting to vary the effect. He just grabs them and goes, whether he is backing the light up to get more even lighting over a larger area or hitting his model with 12:00-high umbrella for an Iggy Pop look.

      Remember, the more you do this stuff the easier and more intuitive it gets. Just do it.

      Now, if you'll forgive me, I will be spending the next two hours with my senile self trying to figure out where I left my car keys -- and yelling at kids to get off of my lawn.

      UPDATE: Well, I can honestly say that I did not expect this on my birthday... (Thanks, guys!)

      -43-


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    • Sony announces new 24mp full frame sensor — can anyone say A900?
      Sony has just announced a 24.8MP full frame 35mm sensor targeted at digital SLRS. The new CMOS sensor is said to use advanced circuitry to overcome the limitations inherent in creating a full frame sensor. The answer to a hard drive maker’s prayers: the Sony 24.81mp sensor. The following is from the Sony press release: The enhanced image [...]


    • Greater Snow Geese II (Anser caerulescens atlantica)
      Posted on January 30, 2008

      Greater Snow Geese II (Anser caerulescens atlantica)
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  • Snow, Snow, On My Yard.....
    It's a great view if you asked me..... But still I wasn't really expecting this much snow on this part of Canada(Even though I'm living on the "Great White North"). Well, enough of the view.....time for snow shelving......@#%*#!......



  • Technical knowledge is not that important….
    Wow. A recent blog by Paul Indigo pretty much hits the nail on the head when it comes to creativity and enjoying photography.


  • Education Roundup
    The upcoming Feb 16th and 17th Orlando, Florida lighting seminars are sold out. But there is lots more education stuff on the menu, including more upcoming seminars, after the jump.
    ___________________


    Education Notes

    • I am in the process of venue selection for the Mar. 15-16 seminars in Phoenix, AZ. More details coming soon.

    • Scott Kelby's new tome, The Digital Photography Book, Vol. 2, is out, following the wildly successful Vol. 1. I helped edit the chapter on flash, which, like the rest of the book is vintage, nuts-and-bolts Kelby. It is reviewed by a Strobist reader Ivan Makarov, here.

    • Registration for the Northern Short Course (Rochester, NY, Mar. 13-15) has opened. I will not be teaching there this time due to a scheduling conflict. But they have a very strong roster of speakers this year, including my long-time friend, Chris Usher, whom I will be very sad to miss. These NPPA things are always killer deals and you should definitely try it out if you are in the Northeast USA.

    • I will be doing four two-hour workshops at the Southern Short Course (Charlotte, NC, Mar. 27-31) geared toward working photojournalists and environmental portraiture. These NPPA things are ridiculously cheap, and tend to sell out quickly. (Last year's was $75.00 for all four days of speakers and workshops.) Registration is not open yet, but it pays to keep a watch on the site.

    Charlotte, BTW, is starting to come on as a Strobist meetup city: See the recent garage-shoot video, here.

    • John Harrington just posted a truckload of new gear videos on his Assignment Construct site. It is becoming clear to me that John is single-handedly supporting the entire photo gear industry at this point. I am thinking his next video will be on how to choose the best U-Haul trailer to carry it all.

    UPDATE: John has a great video, from the photog's perspective, on covering Bush's last State of the Union Address last night, posted here.

    • Long range planning, I will be teaching long-form, multi-day seminars in Dubai (UAE) in late April / early May. If you are in that area of the world (Dubai is an easy flight for many) I'd love to see you there. There are others teaching -- people you will most definitely want to see -- but if I told you about them now, I'd have to kill you. More details coming soon.


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  • Countryside
    Countryside


  • Sony Alpha lineup: what does the Nikon D60 mean to future Sony dSLR models?
    Don’t look now, but photos of the Nikon D60 are starting to appear throughout the web. Why should A-Mount shooters care about Nikon’s latest offering? Aside from the fact that the D60 probably will use a Sony built sensor, rumors suggest that the D60 may replace the D40, which has been Nikon’s low end [...]


  • Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot
    Kate of Edelman sent this a while back and I just got around to posting it (sorry Kate). Recognizing that some of us just aren't that organized but also understanding the importance of details, particularly to pro photographers, Microsoft has developed Pro Photo Shoot, an Outlook add-in designed to help photographers keep track of their [...]


  • The Dash of a ('68?) Dodge Adventurer D300
    Posted on January 29, 2008

    The Dash of a ('68?) Dodge Adventurer D300
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  • On Assignment: Steve at Google
    Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to spend several days on the Google campus. For a guy like me, that borders on being a religious experience.

    I have never been more intimidated than I was while setting up to spend all day teaching to a room full of fifty Google employees. On the one hand, I was absolutely certain that I was the dumbest guy in the room. But on the other hand, the whole campus just oozes with camaraderie and collaboration. Which adds a whole new (and very cool) layer to the enlarged frontal lobe thing.

    But when it was all said and done, I could not remember ever having hung out with a more broadly intelligent and fun bunch of folks. Add to that the amazing environment that Google has created for their people, and you have a remarkable place to spend a career.

    I won't get all of the perks and bennies of being a Googler, because there's a lot. But I will take a moment to give a shout out to the food -- all free -- and prepared by 5-star chefs. These guys know how to get their grub on.

    Just imagine being on a cruise ship, every day, three times a day, but with better food. (Lobster tacos, anyone?) It is said that some Googlers do not even keep a fridge in their house. And yes, the campus coolers were stocked with ice-cold DMD's.

    That food is from all over the world, and top notch. But they still know how to bring it down to street level: All hail Chef Dave's Special Bacon Fried Rice.

    Okay, now I am getting all distracted. Back to shooting Steve, after the jump...
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    The Need for Speed

    Google prides themselves not only on being the best search engine on the planet, but also on being breathtakingly fast. That's a good skill to have when lighting a portrait, too. In this case, for instance, the sun was quickly disappearing behind the top of a nearby building on campus. (The building just past a full-sized T-rex skeleton sculpture devouring the remains of a Christmas tree, to be exact.)

    So this was gonna have to happen within just a few minutes, or it wasn't going to look very good. Just for fun, I am going to run this one real time. Times are pulled from EXIF data. But please remember to allow for the fact that we are explaining the process as we go, which slows us down a bit...

    (Fortunately, with these guys, you rarely have to explain something twice. They pretty much get it the first time.)


    Time = 00:00

    My lights are on stands, and I am walking to the shoot with them, just as if we were doing a few looks, shoot-and-scoot style.

    First off, choose an angle. Grab a natural light shot to assess the ambient portion of the photo and check the sight lines. No problems here. Exposure, 1/400, f/4.5, ISO 400. That's an easy place to hit, and to move around, with flash.

    Note all of those not-very-bright guys hanging out in the back.


    Time = 00:10

    We are now ten seconds into the shoot. Having placed a bare flash (1/2 power, if memory serves) I grab a test shot, blocking the light with my hand, to see what my backlight will do to the surroundings when blocked by Steve.

    Everything looks fine. In fact, I am always amazed at what one hidden backlight can do. Here, it is working in spades, reflecting off of the glass and white aluminum and doing all sorts of cool things. More often than not when designing light, I start in the back and move forward.

    Later, when editing at a less insane pace, I would realize that the people who were just hanging around in this test looked pretty darn good. Especially Aaron, back center right, leaning against the post with the "come hither" stare. (He is nowhere near that attractive in real life.)

    I could use this technique (combined with a front light) to shoot a kickin' 10-person group shot, if needed. So I file that away somewhere, for later.

    (EDIT: Second thought, I think there is some un-aimed, unadjusted front light kicking in here on my hand. See my head shadow. But it is not reaching back to the back guys -- it is too far and the gridded beam way to narrow to get them all like that. That's all bouncing backlight, I'd bet.)


    Time = 00:56

    Just for comparison: Note how useless a backlight test is if you do not block it with something when testing it.

    That's an important thing to remember. I always travel with one hand, and a spare, just for this reason.



    Time = 00:59

    Less than a minute after first visualizing the scene, I am testing the second light -- from the position of the second light. This is critical when working fast, as it allows you to test both exposure and aim while seeing what your light will see. This light had a gridspot, so aim counts.

    Then I waste twenty secs of precious sunlight talking about the fact that the front light is too dark. Adjust light to be more powerful. Shut up and get back to work. Note that I am not even bothering to focus these shots yet. No need. Why waste the time?


    Time = 01:22

    There, that's better. If memory serves, I am at 1/2 power on the back light, and 1/8 power on the front light, which is coming from just a little bit camers right in the final shooting position, and a little higher than Steve's face.

    The power settings are not important. The thought process is important.

    I see here that I would like a little more exposure in the sky. Open the shutter from 1/400th to 1/200th of a sec. Problem solved for first real shot, which is at:


    Time = 01:44

    We are off and running. Starting at 01:44, I am making photos I can use. For the next two and a half minutes, I concentrate on making good frames. Vary the angle. Get different expressions. Watch for changing ambient light and adjust the shutter if needed. Remind the fifty people standing behind me to leave a path in the tunnel, because people are actually needing to use it as we shoot.

    In four minutes and change, we go from visualizing a two-light photo to having thirty usable frames to choose from. Not that we're stealing a car or anything. But I want my frames before the light goes away, simple as that. That's a good way to be able to work, and very doable when you have been lighting long enough for it to get intuitive.

    Here's the frame I chose. For one thing, Steve wasn't blinking or picking his nose in this one, and the expression and lines both look good.

    Someone asked about the reflection of the backlight in the glass. It is either too close to me (in the side glass) to see, or is hidden by a post. You can see it popping up in the first "real shot" frame, at time = 01:44.

    I was working to fast to know or care why it was not a problem later. But if it had been a problem, I would have moved forward or back to hide the reflection in a white post and zoom the lens to recompose. Easy-peasy.

    NOTE: You can see an available light / setup / compromise exposure shot, here. (Thanks, Jennn!)

    And why, you may ask, is this man smiling? Because he, my friend, works for Google. And that's enough to make anyone happy:



    Thanks to all of the Googlers for showing me such a great time on campus. I cannot remember a tenth of the stuff I learned, but it'll come back to me a little at a time, I am sure.

    And to all of the new friends I met in Mountain View, if you ever get over to the new Washington, DC Google office and want to hang out, shoot me an email. I am only 20 mins from there.
    __________________

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  • The Drinks are On Them
    This whole free info fountain thing works because a few very cool businesses make it work. Thanks much to Midwest Photo, PhotoShelter, Zenfolio, and ModMaster Flash, David Honl.

    If you've got what it takes to flaunt your biz in front of 200,000 Strobist readers, I actually have an opening starting this month: 200p x 100p below the fold, at just $1.50 CPM. Click here for more info.

    -30-


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  • Photojournals - Achromatic World Through My Glass #6
    Party goers at karaoke booth, San Francisco, CA



  • Charlie's Barn the Morning After a Light Snowfall
    Posted on January 26, 2008

    Charlie's Barn the Morning After a Light Snowfall
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  • Cat On Podium
    Cat On Podium


  • When Photographer Meets Would Be Educators.....
    The photographer was applauded by the physical appearance of these potential young teachers..... Well, not exactly.....but I was having a bit of trouble picturing these university grads teaching in elementary schools, which is the program allow them to do once they're complete. They're more conscious about their looks and they're very intimidating when it comes to communicating, which is somewhat common among people who work in this sector (my parents in law who work in the Ministry of...



  • Discovered! New Rangefinder Camera design!!
    Well, kinda. My buddy BadDog and I are always playing “If I ran the Camera Companies” and discussing features that should be on a nice, portable “rangefinder” style camera (a la CartierBresson or Robert Doisneau). I’m of the opinion that (at least for this moment in the economy) people are willing to spend big-bucks on digital [...]


  • Gewissenskonflikt durch Google
    Heute kam jemand auf den Schauplatz, der bei Google “wieviel Schlafmittel zum sterben” eingegeben hatte. Au wei. Was macht man da? Ruft man die Polizei an, damit die über die IP eine Adresse ausfindig machen, dort an die Tür klopfen und eine Leiche finden? Oder zeigt die Polizei mir einen Vogel, wegen sowas anzurufen? Mache ich [...]


  • Hiver rural

    Exemple parfait de la ruralité, ces deux voisins sont à une distance appréciable l'un de l'autre dans une prairie bordée d'une forêt le long d'une petite route de campagne.






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    • Humpback Whale Watching In Maui
      Sadly it seems like months ago, but only two weeks ago this was my “office” view.  Kayaking off the coast of Maui with numerous Humpback whales in the area was awe inspiring. I have to admit one whale came up right behind my wife and I and scared the hell out of us. The loud [...]




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    Friday, February 22, 2008

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      The Washington Post has published a slideshow of outstanding sports images from around the world this week called Eye on Sports.


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      I wouldn’t dare to say I know Joe McNally or even his photographic works. Surely, after reading about his new book on several sites and watching the video introduction to his book (show at the end of this article) I started noticing his name at various places like in Nikon brochures. It happened when he started [...]


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    • Baby Photographer
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    • Fire and Fog, Pateley Bridge



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      photo ©2008 noortje schmit




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    • 3
      3There are 12 points in the London Transport Museum to punch your ticket (get the reference? No? Back when a conductor was present they'd punch tickets on a bus - I've had it done in London, albeit about 8 years ago) with different shaps, this was #3 :)


    • webber

      webber

      photo ©2007 refractionless




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      photo ©2008 darek siatkowski




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      kitchen

      photo ©2008 james mcmanus




    • awkward conversation
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    • I shot the moon (once again)

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      Finally we had a weekend with a lot of sun. Although the temperature was around 10 degrees, it felt really nice. I went for two bicycle rides and took some pictures with my Circular Polarizer constantly on my lens. I decided to play around a little with HDR to create this dramatic look.


    • Some sun in Holland!

      Finally we had a weekend with a lot of sun. Although the temperature was around 10 degrees, it felt really nice. I went for two bicycle rides and took some pictures with my Circular Polarizer constantly on my lens.


    • Some sun in Holland!

      Finally we had a weekend with a lot of sun. Although the temperature was around 10 degrees, it felt really nice. I went for two bicycle rides and took some pictures with my Circular Polarizer constantly on my lens.


    • Some sun in Holland!

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    • Some sun in Holland!

      Finally we had a weekend with a lot of sun. Although the temperature was around 10 degrees, it felt really nice. I went for two bicycle rides and took some pictures with my Circular Polarizer constantly on my lens.


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      Finally there was a day with little pieces of blue in the sky every once in a while. I took some pictures from the attic. Still not the weather to go out and see if there's something to shoot.


    • Another Dutch winter sky

      Finally there was a day with little pieces of blue in the sky every once in a while. I took some pictures from the attic. Still not the weather to go out and see if there's something to shoot.


    • Not all roses are red

      I did not have that much time lately to take pictures and try out my flash. Today I decided it was time to take some pictures. The rain outside told me the rose inside the house was a good subject. I tried holding the flash in many different positions and found out how hard it is to get a nice natural lighting.




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  • TWO Years?!?
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  • Make a ND Filter
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  • Photoshop and Performance Enhancing Drugs
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  • Keeping Track of Everything
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  • Flip Your Reflections
    Shooting things, people, skies, mountains or buildings reflected in water can be really beautiful, but becomes even more mysterious when you flip the shot upsidedown. The reflection monkeys around with the quality of light and the colors, and sometimes you cannot tell how the shot was made. Next time you’re confronted [...]


  • More Finishing Touches
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    I see lots of cool BMX MTB (oops) pix coming through the Strobist Flickr pool, but every now and then one stops me cold. This one, by Sylvain, AKA RazorImages, breaks a lot of rules. But it totally works for me.

    Click the pic to see it bigger, and find out how it was lit with two speedlights. And if you want to see more, click here for a slideshow of the latest Reader Hot Shots.

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  • L102: 4.3 -- Cross Balance and Sculpt Discussion
    Report from the assignment given on January 18th, in which you were asked to shoot a photo predominantly lit in one direction, and partially filled by restricted strobe coming in from another direction. This concept proved a tad elusive for many of you, but there were some cool photos made, all the same.

    Pix and more, après le jump.
    __________________

    This assignment and technique is a pretty tough thing to get, IMO. But it is one of the most useful ways to use a single flash. For instance, Joe McNally is basically doing exactly this -- selectively lighting against the ambient -- in his blog post on lighting a fence.

    Seriously, if I put out an assignment for you guys to shoot a fence with a single flash, take a moment to picture in your mind what would come back. But a photo like that in the hands of a photographer who is elegant with his or her light can yield a beautiful photo.

    Also: Until he starts explaining to you how he lit it, did you notice that the final photo was not really about the light at all, but the fence? It just looks pretty darn good photo of a fence, is all. When light works really well, it does not call attention to itself. Your mind just explains it away as being natural light. Only really cool natural light.

    That is sculpting with restricted light. He restricted it by zooming the flash out to 105mm, which at that range is as good as sticking a snoot onto the flash.

    That said, there were some cool shots in this group, too. So let's look at a couple.

    Leading off is a nicely done photo that I am reluctant to post because it just reinforces that 94% male thing we apparently have going on here. (I would like to report, for the record, that I am 100% male, whereas you, as a group, are merely 94% male.)

    I'm just saying.


    Anyway, here is Dat-Tuyen Nguyen's simply and beautifully lit portrait, shot in color but (IMO) looking better converted to black and white.

    I really like the photo, but I might have moved the camera-right light up (in direction) a tad. As it is, it is pretty cleavage-oriented. But I suppose that is a matter of personal choice. Remember that you connote a lot about what is important and what is not by what you choose to selectively light.

    (And yes, I do expect that there will be some comments -- both ways -- about this...)

    That said, I think you will find that any controversy attached to the above photo pales in comparison with that of the following picture, which is by Lowell Sannes:


    You see, Lowell is busy shooting his assignment while he is also flying a Boeing-Effing-737 jet plane.

    Now, I do not know about you guys, but what I like to hear from my pilot during a flight is the occasional report of the (smooth) weather that is expected ahead, meted out over the intercom in a confident, baritone-pitched voice.

    And not something like, "Hey, look, Bob! Every time I do a test pop with my Pocket Wizard the nav displays go nuts!

    That's right, the same guy who would prefer that we turn off our pacemakers as he prepares to land the plane is just hunky-dory with a Pocket Wizard transceiver going off repeatedly at 34,000 feet. It's good to be the captain.

    Also, I would like to know: Did he actually turn the plane to position the sun correctly?

    I can hear it now:

    "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Lowell speaking. Shortly, we will be executing a quick l'il barrel roll, so's I can nail my backlight for an important photo. Please do not be alarmed. Oh, and you might wanna buckle up...

    That said, what is important in this venue is that it is a very cool pic. And it is just what the doctor ordered for the assignment. Lowell has chosen a scene defined by strong backlight and selectively filled it with restricted flash to light exactly what he wanted lit, and nothing else.

    And if I may address Mr. Sannes directly:

    You, sir, are the charter member of the Strobist Lighting 102 Six-Mile-High Club. That said, my URL had better not be the most recent address in the browsing history of your charred iPhone when they find it next to the plane's black box.
    _________________________


    Smoldering remains aside, the takeaway from this assignment should be to consider the possibility of working against the direction of the ambient light, and then working some selective light back into it to create a center of interest that is controlled entirely by you.


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  • 2008 Southern Short Course Now Registering
    If you are planning on attending the Southern Short Course in Charlotte, NC (March 27-30) you'll want to register pretty quick. It is an absolute killer deal, at $95 for four days of gettin' your learn on.

    I'll be teaching two, two-hour breakouts there on Thursday and Saturday. One is for newbs/students and the other for experienced news photographers. Two hours is short-form, compared to the usual stuff we do. But these short course weekends are fast-paced, and lots of fun.

    (Bear in mind that they are geared primarily to the needs of photojournalists.)

    :: 2008 SSC Schedule ::
    :: 2008 SSC Faculty ::

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  • Arc-en-ciel d'hiver II

    L'hiver et sa teinte bleutée peut parfois paraître terne et déprimant. Dans ces moments gris, il est toujours surprenant de voir la nature nous réserver encore de belles surprises et se servir du ciel comme écran à un arc-en-ciel plutôt timide, mais bien apprécié.




  • Newb Catch-up Day
    Is all this off-camera light stuff making your eyes glaze over? We get our fair share of fnugy's (as McNally would say) around here. And we can sometimes lose track of how far we have come as a group since the site began back in 2006.

    Fortunately, Paul Duncan (the guy who did the Bogus Artificial Ring Flash and the strobe spotlight thingie) has put together a very nice slideshow video that really nails the basics.

    Click the pic to take a look if you are new. Or even if you are old. And if you haven't yet hit Lighting 101, you'll have a bit of a headwind (oops, headstart - thanks for the catch) after seeing Paul's very cool slideshow. (Thanks Paul!)
    __________________

    :: Strobist Preliminaries: Gear and Jargon Basics ::
    :: Paul Duncan's Website ::
    :: Paul's 'Bogus Artificial Ring Flash' ::
    :: Paul's Strobe Spotlight Snoot ::

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  • Oberly Farm
    Posted on February 5, 2008

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  • Joe McNally: The Moment it Clicks (Verdict: Awesome)
    UPDATE: Be sure to read Scott Kelby's post on how this book was born. And I finally figured out what makes this book so different, in terms of pacing and personal touch: It's basically a blog, bound up and printed on pretty paper. McNally has been blogging for the past year, without knowing it.
    _________

    Joe McNally's new book, "The Moment it Clicks," is 256 pages of wall-to-wall photos, lighting and photography tips, techniques and war stories from a world-class shooter. And that's not even what makes it so special.

    Hit the jump for a full review, and an extra-special surprise after that.
    _________________________

    Sitting here at my laptop trying to wrap my head around what I like so much about this book, I keep drawing blanks. It's not that I cannot find anything to like about it -- it is that I like everything about it.

    Joe McNally's 30-year career has seen him shooting for Life (as their only staff photographer at one point), National Geographic, self-generated projects out the wazoo, corporate clients -- you name it. And of course, a guy like this is gonna have a book full of photos and stories that'll knock your socks off.

    But given all of that, the thing that jumps out at me from this book is instead how personal it is, and how generous he is with his thought process and know-how. It doesn't feel like he is your teacher, handing out pearls of wisdom from some inaccessible (for you) place. It feels like you are just hanging out after a long day's shooting, and he is talking shop with you over beers in the hotel bar in the evening.

    The book is edited by Scott Kelby, who is either a very good editor or knew when to leave good stuff the heck alone. Or maybe some of both. In a seemingly endless stream of photography and photo how-to books, I have never seen one like this.

    It is broken into little mini-chapters. Double-trucks, mostly, that hit on one main subject, with a big photo used as an example. There are snippets on lighting, camera position and angles, photographer/subject interaction, seeing light, putting yourself in a position to make a great photo, learning to hit the inevitable curve balls that come at you -- just about everything, really.

    The funny thing is, there is no one big secret or silver bullet that makes a shooter like McNally so different from us. It's a million little things. And these things are so simple, and make such sense -- if you have someone to tell you about them.


    Little things like how to turn any house into a studio with a bed sheet from the linen closet (covering a doorway and turning a harsh strobe into a giant light source) and a tablecloth (taped to a wall as a quickie backdrop).

    Well, yeah. "Of course," you'll say. Only I could have gone another 20 years and maybe never thought of that. D'oh.

    McNally is a walking catalog of lighting techniques. But that stuff is not worth a hill of beans if you cannot pre-visualize interesting photos and then do what needs to be done to make sure you and your subject pull them off.

    This book gets you inside a working shooter's head like no other book I have ever seen. Those of you who are closer to the beginning of your journey than to the end will find this book invaluable.

    Those of us who have been around the block a few times will be at once fascinated to see how he works -- and thinks -- and pissed off that we did not have this book twenty years ago. And the "how he thinks" part is there in spades. All of the little voices in his head are on full display throughout the book.


    From simple bedsheets in doorways to complicated production shots (like this one of shortstop Ozzie Smith) he lets you completely inside his thought process to see how he breaks down barriers -- technical and interpersonal -- to produce the photo he first sees in his mind.

    And if you think his shoots are a bed of roses, think again. It's the problems -- and how he solves them -- that makes the book so interesting. This is all done with candor and a total lack of pretense that is rare in a book of this level on any subject, let alone photography.

    And it is laugh-out-loud funny, too. This is a guy you could have a beer with.


    Not Your Average Joe

    It is hard to explain how different this thing is from the typical photo book. Just for a little sense of what it is like, let me hit you with the names of a few of the mini-chapters:


    • Get the Right Five Minutes
    • Have Faith in Your Ideas
    • Remember, You're Not Spider-Man
    • Put the Light in an Unusual Place
    • People Will Think You're Crazy
    • Better to Ask for Forgiveness
    • The Subject Determines the Light
    • Yanko Supremo
    • Bring a Chainsaw
    • Think Like a Comic Book
    • Be a Pest

    You know, the typical chapters in a photo book.


    The last part of the book is entitled, "Bar Stories," and that is exactly what it is. This is one of the very best things about being a photographer, and reading these makes me wanna shut this whole blog thing down and go back to shooting full-time. It really brings you into the heart of what is so interesting about the profession.

    It wouldn't be a photo book without a glossary, but even this is off-kilter. Some terms, in alphabetical order:


    • Arc 'im
    • Biddybastards
    • Cheeseball Piece of S#!%
    • Fnugy
    • (A) Strong 8
    • Valley of the Gels

    (FWIW, "Inverse square law" didn't make the cut for this volume.)

    _______________________

    It's a wonderful book, and I suspect many of you will remember it twenty years hence, assuming you still have twenty years left on your odometer. I sure as heck wish I would have had it twenty years ago. When people ask me what they should be reading if they want to be a better shooter, this is where I am gonna send them.


    About That Special Surprise

    Just as exciting as the book, I am very happy to tell you that McNally has just joined the growing ranks of pro photographers who are also bloggers. He already has a few posts up, and will be adding more as he goes.

    You can get a good sense of just who you'll be dealing with by reading his introductory post. I am very much looking forward to seeing where he takes it. He is a great teacher who knows how to break things down so they are intuitive for even the most thick-headed among us.

    He's thinking video too, with a new YouTube channel. So he's pretty much in it for the whole nine yards. This is a perfect example of the tipping point I believe we are at WRT the photo industry starting to teach the next generation of photographers in a direct, unfiltered way.

    Which is way cool, IMO. Welcome to the sphere, Joe. We are so glad to have you.

    And to those of of you who have read the book, I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
    _________________________

    :: Amazon: The Moment it Clicks ::
    :: Moment it Clicks: Video Preview ::
    :: Scott Kelby on McNally's Book ::
    :: Joe McNally's New Blog ::
    :: Joe McNally's New YouTube Channel ::


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  • the master of the Speedlight is blogging!
    Joe McNally, renown National Geographic photographer and Master of the Nikon SB-series speedlights has finally come to the blogosphere. His work on the Nikon Speed of Light DVD was inspirational, especially back before much information was available on the Nikon CLS system. he’s worked the world over for the largest advertisers and publications, so, obviously he [...]


  • Photojournals - Achromatic World Through My Glass #7
    Lunch Break at KAWAWA Korean Academy, San Francisco, CA



  • Sony Alpha news explodes at PMA 2008
    What a difference a year makes. At the 2007 PMA show Sony Alpha dSLR line was shunned by most of the press. There were no great announcements, although Sony did show off two mockups of yet unnamed dSLRs. The “Advanced Amateur” model eventually came to pass as the A700, while the tantalizing “flagship” is [...]


  • White
    Posted on February 3, 2008

    White
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  • Greater Snow Geese III (Anser caerulescens atlantica)
    Posted on February 1, 2008

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  • Scott Hargis Interview Tonight: 8 p.m. PT

    UPDATE: The interview, very much worth reading, is archived here.

    Long-time Strobist reader and architectural photographer Scott Hargis, whom we have mentioned before, will be doing a live chat-style interview on Photo Camel tonight, at 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time in the US (which is GMT -8).

    Scott specializes in efficiently shooting architectural interiors for real estate, and makes heavy use of his speedlights in the process. If you are into small-flash interior lighting and Scott is talking, you'll wanna be listening.

    :: Scott's Website ::
    :: Scott's Flickr Stream ::
    :: How-to Article (via Photography for Real Estate) ::
    :: Photography for Real Estate Flickr Pool ::
    :: Photo Camel Architecture Forum ::

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  • Meine erste Kamera lernt sehen
    Viel können musste sie nicht, meine erste Kamera: Ritsch - Objektivabdeckung fährt auf, Kamera ist eingeschaltet. Durch den Sucher (besser: Guckloch) geschaut, kurz orientiert, ob das Pferd die Ohren spitzt, Auslöser gedrückt – eine unnachahmlich scheußliche Geräuschmelange aus Schalten, Jaulen, Klacken, gefordert vom sirrenden Filmtransport, und schon kann das nächste Bild gemacht werden. Damit bin [...]


  • Reader Spotlight: Paul Morton
    To pull off this beautiful close-up shot of a guitar, reader Paul Morton, of Phoenix, AZ, had to solve several problems: The guitar was black, the chrome sees everything, and table had to separate from the body of the instrument.

    Paul used a total of five speedlights, and a healthy dose of ingenuity. Take a moment to reverse engineer it before making the jump to see how he did it.
    _____________________

    Says Paul:
    "My girlfriend inherited this guitar. Well, actually, her sister did -- and I have had it for 3 months to shoot. Needles to say It's about time I give it back. So I have been playing with it. As it is black and the chrome is pretty much white, I noticed the colorful anchors to the strings. I love different, close-up angles like this and the colors were a bonus. I wanted the neck and strings in the shot so everyone would know it is a guitar and I liked how they appear to be moving due to the shallow depth of field."

    He goes on: "It was fairly difficult to get the light on that chrome bar the strings are anchored in. I liked the gradient light in the top part, which came from an SB-26 firing into my ceiling, but the side facing the camera was black until I put a piece of foam-core around my lens and fired two strobes into it. It kind of worked out like a ring light, although it wasn't round. I also used a couple SB-26s at the other end to light the table and seperate the body. ..."


    The trick to lighting chrome is to light what the chrome sees. The reflection creates your tone. Paul built his white wall of foam-core around the lens to give something nice and consistent for the chrome to reflect. This is a classic technique for shooting objects which are highly specular. And it doesn't get much more specular than chrome.

    Paul continues:

    "I setup a quasi-ring flash with the foam-core around the lens and an SB-26 and a 580EX on either side firing into it. Because there is no eye in the photo to show a catchlight, the square sheet worked fine. I added the other sheets on either side of that to further fill in the large chrome nuts on either end of the string mount."

    "The sb-26 to the left with the big starburst is firing up into the ceiling to fill the top of the strong mount as well as the strings and neck further down. Two more SB-26s are fired into the table to light it up, because it was getting kind of dark down there. I put a gobo on the right flash because it was lighting up the neck and the chrome tuning knobs that are closest to the camera in this shot."

    "I shot at 1/40th to 1/200th of a second and from F16 to F11. I also worked between ISO 100 and 200 -- it just depends on the shot. I would lower the shutter speed to bring in some ambient, and closed down the aperture to make the blacks go black. I put the camera on a tripod so I could play with light position and the camera settings until I got the light I wanted."


    This is a classic example of building light a single zone at a time and solving the problems one-by-one. In the aggregate, this is a very tricky photo. But broken down into segments, it is very doable.

    Nice shot, Paul. Makes me wanna play it. Tuned to an open chord, of course. 'Cause I pretty much suck at anything other than the easy slide stuff.

    (Keith Richards, white courtesy phone, please...)

    Many thanks to Paul for the great caption info and especially for the setup shot. When you add setup shots and good lighting info, it makes a huge difference for the people viewing your photos who want to learn.

    If you guys get a chance, cruise over to Paul's photo and leave a comment.


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  • A300 and A350: Sony Alpha line gains two more dSLRs
    Another week, a couple more new Sony Alpha dSLRs… Sony has officially announced two new dSLRs, both featuring Sony’s new Quick AF Live View system. This brings the Sony dSLR model lineup to five, provided you include the original A100, which is no longer in production but still available in many outlets. Only about four months ago, [...]


  • See? I told you so……
    In the “saw it coming” category, news today that Sigma has put out a teaser ad on their long-promised Rangefinder camera with a APS-C sized sensor, the Sigma DP-1. You can catch it here at Photography Blog. You can go back and see our wish-list for a camera of this sort here. Also comes news of Nikon’s [...]




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  • Hunter and Prey, Part II. Mysterious Creature: a Fox, a Raccoon, or Just a Broken Trunk?

    waterproof digital camera

    When paddling the South Platte River a week ago I shot a few pictures of a hunter crossing the river. Later, I discovered on these pictures a mysterious creature sitting on a tree. I've got several suggestion what it could be: a fox, a raccoon, or just a broken tree trunk.

    Today, I paddled the South Platte again to investigate closer that tree. Well, actually, I drove to the Mitani-Tokuyasu SWA after a paddling workout.

    So, here is a closer shot of that tree. No mystery, just a broken tree branch ...

    South Platte River

    Related posts:




  • Photojournals - Achromatic World Through My Glass #8
    Weekend fine art workshop, Vallejo, CA



  • Be nice….
    I’m keeping my eye on you.


  • Robert Rodriguez: Master Cheapskate


    Everybody on the bus -- and make sure you have your signed permission slips ready: It's field trip time.

    Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez directed "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" and "Sin City," among other things. But before that he directed a little film called "El Mariachi," a feature-length flick made for just $7,000 in Mexico. Picked up for release in the US, it grossed over $2,000,000.00.

    Why do you care? You are a still photographer, after all.

    Because it is a fantastic example of what can be done with a little bit of gear, almost no money and a lot of imagination. Locals for actors, water guns as props, almost no wasted footage -- this thing squeezes blood out of a turnip. He even edits as he shoots, in-camera, to make his one movie camera look like several in the final product.

    Hit the jump for part two of the 10-minute film school videos, where he shows us how he did the lighting -- with just two Home Depot utility lights. And not the expensive, $20.00 quartz ones, either.



    So, how do you light a movie with two HD utility lights? Very closely, obviously. Especially when you have to make them soft lights, which kills most of the (non-existant) power.

    I absolutely loved both of these videos. If you are a still shooter, there is much to be learned here. But if you are even dabbling in video, this stuff is gold.
    (Via FreshDV.com.)
    ____________________

    Related links:

    Pixelcadabra: D-Day On a Budget
    and Basic Video Lighting Gear
    Rodriguez' Book: Rebel Without a Clue


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  • Phoenix, AZ Seminars: Registration Opens This Sunday
    Registration for the March 15th-16th lighting seminars for Phoenix, AZ, opens this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time.

    I originally hoped to be making the I-10 desert drive to open an additional LA date for this trip, but time constraints have me too hemmed in to do so. It is spring break, and we are coming out as a family to visit the Southwest. (I still hope to get to LA sometime later this year, but have no solid plans yet.)

    Please note that all of the previous seminars have sold out, some within just a few minutes. And I never know how fast they are going to go. If you want to pre-read the typical seminar setup, along with reviews of past seminars, see the sign-up post for next week's Orlando seminars.

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  • Inspiration Friday
    Here are some links to inspire you today as you plan your photography projects for the weekend or merely taking old photos off your hard drive and enhancing them. Rarindra Prakarsa from Jakarta, Indonesia- link Jothan Penney - digital imaging and printmaking - link Joe McNally video - link On the January 28, 2008 episode [...]


  • Simplicité II




  • Readers Making News
    Strobist reader Gary Cosby, Jr., who is a staff photographer for The Decatur (AL) Daily, had a nice "on assignment-style" post about using small flashes to create this illustrative portrait about a local low-budget movie director. Click on the pic, or here to read more.

    On a sadder and more timely note, if you happened to look at nearly any major paper in the US today you also stood a good chance at seeing Gary photo from the tornadoes which ripped through the southeastern states on Feb. 5 and 6. Gary's photo became the iconic image for a tragedy which left more than 50 people dead, and many more lives altered.

    It was lead art in the New York Times and USA Today, among many other papers. You can see his photo, and read his account of making it, here. For those of you interested in pursuing a career in photojournalism, Gary's account offers much for you to learn.
    ____________


    On the lighter side, my colleague Chris Assaf threw up an OA post of his own on Photo Edge today, blogging about the process of trying to sex up a shot of a keyboard with a little funky bottom light.

    Chris has also started a new Photo Edge Flickr group, if you are into the PJ thing and want to mingle.

    -30-


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  • untitled
    Edwin Toone wrote: My name is Edwin and I work with a webpage called Sclipo. We are a social utility that allows users to teach and learn via videos and live webcam classes. We are currently running a Photography Challenge where users can upload videos of Photo tips and tutorials and win cool prizes like a [...]


  • Fisherman
    Fisherman


  • Chuc Mung Nam Moi! Kung Hei fat Choy!
    I like to take this opportunity to wish all of you who’ll be celebrating the Lunar New Year (Year of the Rat) a very Happy New Year!


  • Dramatic High Contrast Lighting
    AFTER BEFORE   Select a photograph that has some contrast   Create a new layer (Command J- Mac or Control J- PC)   Desaturate the DUPLICATE layer - image, adjustments, desaturate   then do the following - Image, adjustments, layers, and drag the left slider (black) slightly to the right- this creates a more extreme look   Select the background layer -shift click [...]


  • Une lumière dans la nuit

    Une lumière dans la nuit pour éclairer nos pas vers la destination choisie.




  • Une lumière dans la nuit

    Une lumière dans la nuit pour éclairer nos pas vers la destination choisie.




  • Simplicité

    La plante réussit, malgré les nombreuses accumulations de neige, a conserver sa place au soleil. Elle y tient. Elle veut absolument revoir le pré verdissant avant de s'étendre doucement et d'attendre la fin...




  • Spectacle de lumière

    Presqu'à chaque soir, il est possible d'assister à un spectacle de lumière extraordinaire durant les quelques minutes où le soleil, en se couchant, est tout près de l'horizon. La lumière, souvent orangée et chaude, se réflète sur tous les obstacles pour créer des scènes magnifiques et inoubliables.






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  • Quiet Here
    Sorry for the quiet days here at I Speak Film.  I’ve been having trouble with my Flickr image uploader and am now unable to upload pictures directly to the blog.  I have a bunch of posts waiting in the wings, but the pictures, the posts would be kind of boring.  Hopefully, I’ll get back online [...]


  • Spice Up Your Images
    Are you looking to take an image and spice it up. There are numerous ways to do this. In yesterday’s post, I talked about adding some grunge brush effects, sloppy borders, or maybe adding a pattern on the background. Check out my before and after. I did a little of everything. After with some touch [...]


  • Return to the gallery - P365 Feb07
    In order to take example photgraphs for my recent DPS post Rapid Composition, I revisited the Monash Gallery of Art. I was last there a few months ago. These are the photos I took as finished examples of composed photos.


  • One-Minute Lighting Tip: Lighting on Two Planes
    Quick, what color is the tile that this Turkish candy is sitting on?

    If you said green, you should probably hit the jump to learn about how lighting on two planes gives you more control over your photos.

    ________________

    First things first: The tile that the candy on is actually black.

    Second, let's walk through the light reader Nionyn used for the shot and see what's what.

    The main light is a gridded Vivitar 283, coming in from front camera left. The second light is another Vivitar 283 from back camera right. The third light is yet another 283, gelled green, aimed at the wall which is out of the frame behind the candy sitting on the black tile.

    So, what you are seeing in the foreground is the (gelled green) lit wall being reflected in the black tile that the candy is on. In other words, in this shot, the black tile is essentially a mirror.

    Since the front tile is black, the green wall is not being contaminated with any pre-existing tone or color from the tile in the photo's foreground. And since the candy is being lit by two gridded 283's, the light hitting the candy is not spilling onto the back wall. Thus, the smooth, intense color around the candy.

    The two items (candy and wall) are being lit on two completely discrete planes. And the fact that the tile is reflecting the back wall (because of the camera position) is what brings it all together.

    58... 59... 60.
    ____________

    Related reading:
    DIY Macro Box Shoot w/Black Granite


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  • Hände hoch! Auf dem Pragfriedhof
    [german]Der Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart Nord ist überraschend geometrisch angelegt. Gefasst auf ein parkähnliches Juwel wie den Highgate Cemetery in London oder ein Grabmal-Labyrinth auf dem Hügel wie die Nekropolis in Glasgow, war ich von der Ordnungswut auf dem Pragfriedhof zunächst etwas ernüchtert. Aber ich war ja auf der Suche nach Händen für Martins Fotowettbewerb. Und [...]


  • Clumber Spaniel (Westminster Kennel Club Show, NYC)
    Posted on February 14, 2008

    Clumber Spaniel (Westminster Kennel Club Show, NYC)
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  • Making a High Definition Slide Show
    I am a huge fan of the Lab with Leo show. It is a computer,web design, IT, photography based show that is shown daily. I came across this podcast from a recent show on doing high definition slide shows for your photography. [youtube] [/youtube]Have a great Thursday !


  • Photojournals - Achromatic World Through My Glass #9
    Perpignan, France



  • South Platte River Near Confluence with the Cache la Poudre and Mitani-Tokuyasu SWA

    Thunderbolt and wildwater racing kayak on South Platte River

    This is a snapshot of the South Platte River just above the Cache la Poudre confluence and Mitani-Tokuyasu State Wilderness Area (opened till the end of February). I am paddling my Thunderbolt and trying to keep up with Jeremy in his wildwater racing kayak. We are going down river after 5 miles upstream workout from Kersey to Plumb Ditch Dam.

    Our next upstream/downstream session is planned for the next Saturday afternoon starting at highway 60 east of Milliken, You can check details in fitness paddling blog.

    The picture was shot with Pentax Optio W30. I was shooting also with Canon EOS 40D and 60mm macro lens during our short break at the dam.

    Some related posts from paddling the South Platte River in winter:




  • Fotografen vorgestellt: Ralf Spieß
    Ralf Spieß habe ich über meine Fotogruppe bei Volker Schöbel, den hier schon mehrfach erwähnten fortlaufenden Stuttgarter VHS-Kurs “Kunst des Sehens” kennengelernt. Ralfs Fotos und seine offene Art, über Fotografie zu sprechen, faszinieren mich, daher möchte ich ihn und einige seiner Arbeiten heute vorstellen. Ich habe ihm ein paar Fragen gestellt und um Fotos aus [...]


  • No Direct Flash, Please. We're British.


    UPDATE: Swapped to a better version of the video. Runs smoother and has more stills.

    The folks in Seattle know they are cool. They work their big-bucks day jobs and then meet up at night to flash each other in airplane hangars.

    But across the Atlantic in Croydon (near London) at The Croydon Advertiser, they get to do this small-flash lighting stuff all day long and get paid for it. In Pounds Sterling, no less.

    Never heard of the Croydon Advertiser? It's where "SitBonzo" (AKA David Berman) works. And if anything could be cooler than British TV, it would be an instructional British lighting video, of course. Click the icon at bottom right on the screen to video it full screen.

    (Eatcher heart out, Ogalthorpe.)
    _____________________

    More Croydon lighting hijinks -- and stills, for the commenters who asked -- here.

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  • Sony confirms 24mp sensor in Alpha flagship dSLR
    Sony quickly ended speculation about whether the new 24mp sensor would show up in the yet to be officially named “flagship” dSLR. Soon after Sony announced the full frame sensor, several high-profile Sony doubters expressed their opinion that Sony would never use the sensor in their own cameras, because after all “Sony would never dare [...]


  • Marketing
      In the past I have spoken about direct marketing. There are certain costs associated with direct marketing but it is an extremely power tool in driving business to your door. In the past 6 weeks, I have been creating a marketing piece a week for each of our business segments. Each piece [...]


  • Quick Dodge and Burn
    BEFORE This is a handy PS technique that copies a basic dodge and burn effect. This technique selectively boosts the contrast in your image and creates an effect similar to using the dodge and burn tools. Here are the steps: 1. filter >sharpen >unsharpen 2. enter for amount 35 % and for radius 200 pixels I hope you like [...]


  • RadioPopper Photos Posted
    Kevin has just posted a series of photos of the upcoming RadioPopper wireless piggyback units, which are designed to vastly extend the range of wireless TLL flash systems such as those used by Nikon and Canon DSLRs.

    Still in the ugly-electronic-guts stage are the new dumb (non-TTL) radio triggers, which promise a four-digit range at a two-digit price.

    Or, of course, these could just be clever Photoshop creations if you are still in the Vaporware/Capricorn One crowd.

    See the RadioPopper blog for several more shots of receivers and transmitters, and a full run-down of recent RP anouncements.

    -30-


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  • Monday +Tuesday Post
    I was under the weather on Monday and I  will do combined post for Tuesday.  Check back later today.


  • Tired Handler and Longhaired Dachshund, Westminster Kennel Club Show
    Posted on February 12, 2008

    Tired Handler and Longhaired Dachshund (Westminster Kennel Club Show, NYC)
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  • Lighting 102: 5.2 - Assignment: Double-Duty Light
    Today's Lighting 102 assignment is simple, in theory. Your job is to create a photo, using just one flash, that makes use of reflective surfaces to create light coming from multiple directions.

    Sounds easy enough. But there is a little twist. More after the jump.

    ____________________

    Technique-wise, this assignment is just as simple as it sounds. You'll be using one flash, which you can combine with ambient light if you like. But you'll be stretching it to make it do double duty. Or triple duty. Or more.

    This assignment is a little different from what we have been doing up until now, in that this is more than just a technique-based photo. This is also a conceptual shoot.

    Realizing that 85% of the people who read this site are amateurs, I wanted to introduce an element of your having to produce a shot designed to illustrate a concept. This should give you an added layer of complexity. But I am also going to include a choice of three concepts just to make things a little easier.

    Before we get to that, a roadmap to help you conceive your shot.


    Concept, Subject, Light, Gesture

    Normally, a photographer would get an assignment to illustrate a single concept. And you'd think you would want a nice, big, general concept, right?

    Maybe not. In my experience, those are more difficult to do than the niche stuff. It just a matter of having to many choices.

    Once your concept is narrowed down, you need to choose a subject that you will use to illustrate it. One earlier example on this site is this On Assignment post, from a shot to illustrate winter book clubs. We chose as our subject origami chairs, made from the pages of classic books.

    Physical subject chosen, we next had to design the light. In the above case, I was trying to mimic a dark night and fire from a fireplace. (You can read the whole assignment post on the other page, so I won't dupe that here.)

    But the point is that the physical subject had to exist before we started to figure out how to light it. If you think of this as a linear creative process, it starts to work itself out a little. How you interpret the concept will point you to your representational physical subject matter.

    The choice of subject will help you craft a lighting scheme -- within the bounds of this assignment, in this instance -- and then you are on your way to making a photo.

    If your subject is a person, you'll also want to pay careful attention to the gesture you elicit, as this last step with either make or break the photo. Not that a person is required. But if you use one, don't drive the ball 99 yards and screw it up because the person's gesture is totally wrong for your concept.


    First Things First

    How will it be used?

    Even if you do not have a publication venue in mind, it helps to make one up in your mind to act as a guidepost. This will help you to visualize the photo you want to make and give you some boundaries that will help you make your choices along the way.

    Choosing a venue will help you get the creative ball rolling.

    Mind you, for the pros, the venue is typically already chosen, as is the concept. And frequently, the subject is pre-selected, too. Each of these pre-chosen variables can be a blessing or a curse. But this time, for better or worse, you are driving.


    Your Choices

    Here are the three conceptual choices for your assignment. Choose one:


    1. Financial Planning.
    2. Going Green.
    3. Physical Fitness.

    Three simple concepts, with many possible choices.


    I'm Playing, Too

    As mentioned in the reflect/refract post, I am gonna be doing this one, too. I will write it up as an On Assignment and throw my thought process into the ring along with everyone else. And, FWIW, I'll share some of my choices here.

    My concept choice will be #1, Financial Planning. It is an avocational interest of mine, so I know enough to at least get started thinking about it.

    My potential end venue will be the blog, "Get Rich Slowly," which is run my friend, J.D. Roth. He has no idea I will be shooting a conceptual photo for him to use, and will likely only find out when he sees his inbound traffic from my site today. (Hi, J.D. -- Surprise!)

    If he wants to use it, fine. If not, fine. But the point is that having an end use in mind will help to guide me through the decision-making process.

    That's where I am going with it. More later.
    ___________


    For this assignment, your tags will be:

    Strobist
    Lighting102 (note, no spaces)
    Reflect

    Please tag only one photo with the above three tags. And remember: One flash, stretched with reflectors. That's the technique we are using.

    You can see all of the photos from this assignment here. Discussion for the assignment is here.

    The assignment is due at the end of the day on March 3rd.


    ©2008 Strobist.com. If you are reading this content on another website, it was likely scraped by a spamsite bot. Please leave me a comment in the "TOS" section of www.strobist.blogspot.com.



  • Creating Grunge Brushes
    Grunge is becoming a big thing in magazine advertisements, television ads, and certainly our in our main stream photography. I even saw an ad last week for accountants with a grunge layout- who would have thought ? You can purchase grunge brushes or you can make you own. Here are the steps to make your own. 1. [...]


  • Macros of New Zealand Coins - P365 Feb13
    I was browsing through Strobist's favourites on Flickr, as I often do, and I was inspired by this photo of an American penny to try taking a macro photo of a coin again. I go into detail how I took the photos.


  • Blue sea necklace - P365 Feb12
    In each issue of Connect, the Bead Society of Victoria's quarterly magazine, they feature a member's bead challenge. This time the them was "Seaside". This detailed necklace which was made by Carmel Manley was voted most favourite by fellow bead members.


  • Household closeups - P365 Feb11
    Looking for some photos one afternoon around the house.


  • Boquet of Flowers - P365 Feb10
    I mentioned a couple of days ago that Darren gave Naomi some chocolates and flowers as a thank you for helping him out with some design work. As promised, here are some photos of the boquet.


  • Suivre la voie




  • Yellow Rose print available
    This week I've gone against the trend of the photos so far seen on the PhotoBlog. Landscapes and urban scenes have been popular so far, and while my greatest interest probably lies in landscapes, I am also very fond of the closer perspective. I have taken many macro photos of flowers, and this is one the ones I like the most.


  • Family Portraits - P365 Feb09
    Tonight we had dinner with family at my sister's. I was able to arrange an impromptu photo shoot to get up-to-date photos of some family, and first ever photos of my Uncle John and Aunt Bev.


  • Fleuve gelé II




  • Brouillard

    Le brouillard m'envahit, je ne sais plus où je suis, je ne sais pas où je vais, que vais-je faire?






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