… and now you need to learn how to use it?
Consider this.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Did you get a fancy camera?
Stripes
A Meet Up group, that I belong to, has a monthly theme. For January, it is stripes. The obvious stripes photo, this time of year, is a candy cane — except I already ate them all!.. This morning, I took a shot of the kitchen window, from the patio, then I went inside...
Christmas Lights
Today, I decided to grab some shots of Christmas decorations. I want to find a few homes where I could shoot from a few minutes before sunset to a few minutes after. That means moving pretty fast because the light is changing quickly (don’t be afraid to shoot ‘after dark’). I...
Getting Started
Again, I am posting an answer that I wrote in a forum. The writer had spent over $10,000 on equipment, in the past year, and had contacted local photographers, trying to learn — as an intern. Still, he felt that he was ‘missing something’ and asked how he would know when he...
Low Light
The question had to do with low light shooting — a wedding ceremony and reception in a venue with low light. My answer:
Are you comfortable with off-camera flash? Unless there is some overriding reason to shoot the entire thing without flash, why worry about it? Do some ‘mood’ shots with ambient light,...
Answer to an email question
Boy am I cheating, today. Rather than writing something original, I’m just pasting the answer I gave in an email.
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Hi,
I have dreamed of being a photogragpher most of my life. I can't say I am the best. I need alot of help. PS is my best friend, because my pictures aren't....
Trip To Mexico
I went to Mexico to shoot a wedding, over Thanksgiving. Here are a few shots along the streets of the village of Ajijic — in Jalisco, just south of Guadalajara. All have been tweaked in Lightroom for the antique look. Nikon D70s, most shot at 20mm.
KIVA LOAN
I just made a loan to someone in Ecuador using a revolutionary new website called Kiva (www.kiva.org).
You can go to Kiva’s website and lend to someone across the globe who needs a loan for their business – like raising goats, selling vegetables at market or making bricks. Each loan has a picture of the...
Wedding Photography Business
I created the following videos for display in The B School. The [B] School is a social network, changing the way photographers connect, both on-line and in real life. If you are serous about earning money with your camera, either on a full, or part-time basis, you owe it to yourself to ...
What Camera Brand? Especially Canon vs.Nikon
This can be a fun discussion. However, if I may be allowed an analogy: When I was a kid, I worked on a farm. Sometimes, I had to move manure from one place to another. I noticed that the cows didn’t really care if I hooked up the manure wagon to...