Tag: photography
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Wedding Photography
What do you need to be a wedding photographer? First you need to understand that wedding photography is a business first and an art form second. How so, you might ask? Look at it this way. Let’s pretend that you’re selling your wedding photography services for $2,000 a day. That’s a lot of money for…
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More On Light Meters
When shooting film here’s another good reason to buy an external light meter. In your 50-year-old film camera the built-in light meter is likely not working anymore or if it is the meter itself may no longer be delivering a precise, accurate and predictable meter reading. Built-in light meters just aren’t reliable enough after all…
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Shaky Camera Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with buying an expensive modern technologically amazing digital camera is the automation. Automation in the hands of a new photographer can easily work against getting a good image as easily as it should work in getting the image right in the camera. What I see often on FaceBook are new…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…
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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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How Many Lenses Do I Need?
The answer is one. Of course almost nobody shoots with just one lens – well maybe the Leica film crowd with their super sharp 35mm lenses – but you really only need one lens. So which lenses should this one lens be? Generally speaking you can use your kit lens (that’s the small inexpensive zoom…
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Seeing
Before you can shoot anything you have to be able to see it. Sounds obvious doesn’t it but seeing is a lot harder than it sounds. It’s a gift if you can “see” things which would make for good photographic images. Very few people, including many amateur and professional photographers, can’t see all that well.…
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The Artist’s Way
Are you wondering if you really can be a better photographer? Do you think a newer camera or a better camera would help? Maybe you should take photography lessons from a pro? Would moving somewhere more photogenic be a good idea? How about if I said, even if you’re brand new to photography, you’re likely…
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Develop Your Film
It’s easy to develop negatives from your film camera. Unlike digital camera older film cameras produce images that many photographic artists find very pleasing. One reason is film still has a greater dynamic range (the ability to record the varying shades of grey from pure white to absolute black) than most digital cameras. Setting your…
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Shakey Photos
Are you getting images that look out of focus or just overall soft and not as sharp as you’d like to see? Is this happening when shooting indoors without a flash or when taking shots at night again without a flash? If so it’s very likely your shutter speed is too slow. This happens all…
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