I know – we all know this and we all love our gear and our gadgets but sometimes less is actually more. Not always just sometimes. I thought I would remind everyone out there in photography land that sometimes the simplest approach can be the best. Take lighting for instance. I know it’s all the rage for everyone to get a bunch of small strobes and do all kind of whacky things with them off camera, or to just make sure that you have a bunch of shadow detail...
Been really really busy lately so I haven’t had time to complain about Apple and their apparent conspiracy to drive Aperture users completely out of their minds so I thought I would rant a little and maybe even provide a little helpful info for the uninitiated photo manipulator (retoucher/whatever). Yep another Apple announcement and not peep about Aperture. I didn’t really expect one at the music event but it just is another tiny little mile-marker of no Aperture updates. Hey if Apple can put a freaking movie camera in...
A while back I published a short article about a portrait lighting technique that I use a lot to one degree or another when making a portrait. To make a long story short the technique uses a corner as a background. The surface facing the light source will be light and happens to be on the shadow side of the subject. The opposite surface will be darker and on the highlight side of the subject.
A friend asked me to take a couple of portraits for her sporting a new hair style. Not next week or next month but now. Hey you have a camera, you take a lot of pictures, how hard can it be? She needed them for something or another, I forget. At first I started to make excuses about the location (her living room), I don’t have any of the stuff I need, the light is no good, blah, blah, etc. When I realized that she was not going to...
