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Tag Archives: 7D
7D popup residual glow…
Look at this, from yesterday’s pic: The Canon 7D can direct other flashes with its popup – unique for Canon, and that is what I was doing in this portrait (the main flash is a 430EX with a Honl reflector). … Continue reading
Portrait using two flashes
Here’s an impromptu portrait I took on Tuesday, of a lovely student who kindly volunteered to be the subject, in the Flash for Pros course: And here’s how I did this: Camera: The camera was a Canon 7D Lens: I … Continue reading
Camera Needs?
I shot a school Sunday: “Photo Day” portraits at a music school. My colleague Anita and I used strobes, backdrops, and Canon cameras: 40D, a 7D and a 1D Mark IV. A few interesting observations: The 7D produced the same … Continue reading
Click. Shhhh!
A few tips for those of you who shoot ceremonies. Ceremonies are important to people. Whether this is a graduation, a wedding, a signing of some sort: there will often be a hushed silence. A silence you do not want … Continue reading
That look over the shoulder
One common sexy model look is the “look over the shoulder”. Like here, in this shot of Nemo, a somewhat Rubenesque but nevertheless pretty model: In an “over the shoulder” pose women can look over either shoulder, but for men, … Continue reading
Misc
Backgrounds and sharpness and white balance: oh my! I thought I would chat about some of the things that go through my mind when doing a portrait, like this one last night: Questions like: What camera and lens? In this … Continue reading
Circles
A recent photo featuring… circles. Technical details: Canon 7D, 1/50th second at f/5.6, 400 ISO, with an on-camera 580EX II flash bounced off the ceiling/wall behind me. Using the 16-35 f/2.8L lens.
Red Green
Here is my Canon 7D with a few of my speedlights (pro speak for “flashes”), pocketwizards, and cables: Sometimes I use them for standard lighting. Sometimes I use effects -more often than not colour. Here’s four of them firing at … Continue reading
Aircraft image
How to shoot an aircraft? If you are a terrorist, use whatever guided weapon you have. If, however (as I assume since you are here) you are a photographer, you want to do something like this: There are four key … Continue reading
Filter tips
A quick tip, today. All about filters. Yes you need them. When it starts raining, or in the snow, or in a sandstorm, you want your filter to be ruined, not your lens. But they cause flare, so you do … Continue reading
