Автор: Alick

Many of you have asked how I and many others take pictures of Smoke. Here, I will walk you through how to do it.

I don’t own any 4GB digital compact flash cards anymore. There aren’t any 2GB memory cards in my bag either. I only use 1GB cards to shoot weddings now. Yes, it’s a pain to have to change the cards out more frequently but I began my career shooting film. I can handle it. If I were to lose a card now it would only be a small fraction of the wedding that would be missing and would probably go unnoticed with the style of albums I use.

To build the light strip softbox, I used a long thin cardboard box that originally contained a cloths rack from Ikea. I have two of these and intend to make a second light strip when I have another hour or so spare.

В аналоговой фотографии конечным продуктом является изображение на материальном носителе — слайд или отпечаток. Ручная печать черно-белых фотографий, подобно другим направлениям фотоискусства, предоставляет безграничную творческую свободу. Взамен она требует знаний, практических навыков, финансовых затрат на оборудование, фотобумагу и химию.

Не верьте что качество работы равносильно качеству инструментов. Мир полон фотографов, которые выдают очень резкие и абсолютно неинтересные работы. Они могут часами хвастаться своими apo- или aspherical- штуками, но восьмой закон Джонстона неумолим : отстой есть отстой.

I started taking shots at AV and chimped one in. Looked close so I set my manual to that exposure and shot one. No flash. This let me get an overall view of the scene as it was in front of me. Most of the time, the camera will make a lighter image than I like because it is trying to ‘average’ the scene. (NOTE: If I had wanted to meter this image, I would have had to run down the beach and then carefully walk toward Briana so my footprints would be less noticeable. Take the meter reading and then go back on my steps and around to get the shot. Time’s a wastin’ and I chose to chimp.)

Well, I printed a copy of the wedding photo shown at the 4 different resolutions from 4368px down to 1000px across and assessed the final printed image. Somewhat to my surprise, the images down to 2000px across looked fine – even under close inspection. Even the 1000px image looked OK at the normal viewing distance of 12 – 20 inches. Closer inspection showed it was quite blurry though. That explains the comments from the lab tech 6 years ago – I had quite small head sizes in the image in question. I learned from that experience to pose my groups a bit tighter – so I could get closer and get bigger heads in the image and to alleviate the “low pixel count” head problem.

I was recently in Key Largo to photography the construction of a large bridge over Jewfish Creek. The current bridge was build in 1944, is 223′ long and is of the old drawbridge style. When a boat to tall to pass under the bridge, traffic would be stopped and the drawbridge would opened to allow the boat to pass through. With as much traffic that travels on this highway (Highway 1 to the Keys)they needed a new bridge.

Tell the group you’ll be taking a few images to ensure you get a good picture.
Count to three, take a shot, pause for 1 second, take a second shot.
The second shot will find most of the people in the group will have relaxed smiles as opposed to forced smiles. It won’t work every-time, but I’ve had much success with it in the past.

Изготовление панорамы – отличный технический приём, позволяющий перешагнуть через некоторые ограничения возможностей фотоаппаратуры. Раньше «сшивание» цифровых фотографий (про «плёночную» эпоху я уж и не говорю) было делом муторным и трудоёмким, так как использование ранних версий программного обеспечения для автоматизированного создания панорам давало весьма убогие результаты, и приходилось делать всё вручную. Да, трудные были времена… Теперь же имеются программные инструменты, поистине волшебные по своим возможностям, и создание фотопанорам превратилось из кропотливого труда в увлекательное занятие.