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Oh No! It’s That Time of Year Again. Family Portraits

Yikes, family portraits scare me. They really really do. Every year at this time of year various family members, friends, and neighbors ask me to do their family portraits. Hey you take pictures don’t you? You have a really nice camera. Would you mind doing a family portrait of us. Hey what can I say? Sure… No problem. I really don’t mind, in fact I enjoy it. The problem is I hate most of the “professional” portraits that I see on greeting cards, laying around peoples houses, etc. They...

15 December 2009 | Site News | , , | 2 Comments
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Shooting Film ?

I have had some interesting conversations generated by a post with some ramblings about camera noise, film, and TMAX 3200P. Just for fun I thought I would post a scan and some comments regarding real honest to goodness film along with some short thoughts on it’s characteristics and how I use or have used it in the past. Just for fun, nostalgia for some, and curiosity for others. Personally I shoot 90% digital and 10% film. I am glad that I had the opportunity to shoot, process, and print...

31 May 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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Great Portraits – Simple Lighting

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.

20 April 2009 | Articles, Lighting | , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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Keeping it Simple

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...

11 September 2008 | Articles, General Photography, Lighting | , , , , | 7 Comments