Category Archives: Workflow

Check Your Settings

I shot hundreds of photos last Saturday. There was the pool shoot workshop, the Star Wars Celebration V event and then the Last Tour to Endor party at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. During that time, I checked and adjusted a lot of settings on my camera.  My ISO ranged from 200 to 6400, depending upon the...

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Taming Noisy Photographs

I had quite a busy Saturday.  Starting at 9:00 am, I attended a workshop produced by my friends John & Susan of Catchlight Studios.  I’ll post my own images later, but you can get a sample of what it was like on this post on their blog.  One problem I started at that workshop dogged...

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Realistic HDR?

This is the Command Module of Apollo 14, on display at Kennedy Space Center.  It’s a 5-exposure HDR shot.  I’ve mentioned before that my objective isn’t just to capture the reality of a moment, but to try and capture my sense of being in a moment.  Sometimes that means creating a mystical feeling in the...

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Look, Mom. No Photoshop.

It’s one of those evenings with a thunderstorm outside and I’m sitting here looking at photos I never processed.  This one is from a workshop at OMP Studios in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The place had some nice toys, including the Profoto pointing into an 8-foot octabox over my shoulder for this shot on the cyclorama....

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The War on HDR

The discussion on a couple of photography blogs made me realize just how out of touch I am with the rest of the world regarding my opinion of High Dynamic Range photography.  There are even those who deny that HDR is photography, but we’ll touch on that later.  It started, innocently enough, with a Scott...

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