If you’re new to lighting, studio or not, Strobist rocks. Recently I’ve discovered a new resource. ProPhotoLife is another blog that has a lot of studio based walk throughs, giving examples of setups, lighting guides, and all kinds of cool stuff. The nifty thing is how he’s doing some of it. [...]

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Sometimes, when taking pictures in poor light, and using high ISOs, the best thing to do is convert to black and white. It gives the effect of grainy film. I’ve got some side-by-sides here.

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Every once in a while, I need to batch add copyright notices, or similar disclaimers to images. Not that I’m that good at photography I need to copyright them, but I feel the need is still there. Adobe Bridge has the ability to append/replace metadata in images (EXIF for JPEGs for example) with [...]

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This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

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A new toy to help me with one of my projects for this year. I’ll have some pictures up shortly.

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A little bit of a mouth full, and rather nerdy, but works pretty well. Gary Fong developed a Lightsphere Cloud, but I was resourceful, and constructed one from an ice cream container. I don’t even remember what ice-cream it was, but the container was the rigid semi-transparent plastic. I removed all the stickers, [...]

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Ever tried to figure out how to get the perfect exposure? Old time photography pros probably already know all about the Guide Number, but Strobist has a quick guide to the “Guide Number”. It’s a handy bit of information, and I had a play with it this evening. You can dial in [...]

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So I don’t think this is the best picture I’ve taken at the zoo, in fact, I think the Eagle ones are much better, but… Schmap picked, and published this one.

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Got a shot of the kittie this evening while playing with the grill shots. I went for the unusual square crop for the kittie. I think it works.

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I’ve been reading The Strobist for a bit now, and realized that I’d just missed last year’s Lighting 101. Apparently he’s running a second course this year (aptly named Lighting 102). I picked myself up a few goodies. All but one of the items was from eBay.

The Nikon SB-800 [...]

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