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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Looking for Textures
A shot from a shoot I did the other day for a magazine shows how important textures and patterns are: Without the wonderful sun/wave texture, the picture of such an uncharacteristically nice day for the Netherlands would have been rather … Continue reading
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Flash!
Here’s a flash with a small 8″ Honl softbox: Sometimes, bouncing is not the solution. For a snap like this, you would: Decide on the desired brightness for the background Set your aperture, shutter and ISO accordingly Turn on your … Continue reading
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Moment
Can you see the decisive moment, in this shot of Schoonhoven’s corn storage house, designed hundreds of years ago to stop famines due to freezing corn? Right. The man’s head in the arch. You need to pay attention to these … Continue reading
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Distillery
Today, a few more shots from The Distillery Historic District in Toronto. This time, decay, remnants. I often find to helps me to think “what is my theme”, when I do urban photography. And as you can see, the theme for … Continue reading
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I am on a trip
You can guess where. Today, no lesson, just snaps: Haastrecht and the Rule of Thirds: Gouda, by the St Jan cathedral: Behind it, the sombre Jewish Cemetery: On Kleiweg, a traditional street organ: And my son Daniel at Gouda’s Town … Continue reading
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Peripheral People
Today, a few more recent shots from The Distillery in Toronto. This time, showing the interaction between people and The Distillery. But in a way where the people have only a “sideline” kind of importance. They are almost peripheral to the streets and buildings, and rather … Continue reading
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Roller Derby II
Here’s the Roller Derby Chick again, from the Niagara School of Imaging course i taught: To give you specifics: those were taken at 200 ISO, 1/250th sec, f/16, with the flashes about 6ft away on each side, set to quarter/half … Continue reading
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Fun with lights
As regular readers here know, you can use speedlights for cool edgy shots that look photoshopped. Like these, taken today at my 5-day course at the Niagara School of Imaging at Brock University: Those shots need you to take your … Continue reading
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Technique and Simplicity in a shot
This is one of my students in today’s class at Niagara School of Imaging (held at Brock University). Awesome, no? How did I shoot that? Simple. A camera set to manual; 200 ISO, 1/200th sec, f/8. This makes the background … Continue reading
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Trixies
Some students today, at my five-day “Demystifying Digital Flash” workshop at Niagara School of Imaging: Here an example of a simple one on-camera flash high key portrait: one flash on the camera aimed behind the photographer. And flash exposure compensation … Continue reading
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