Dealing with Difficult Subjects
Sooner or later, you’re going to run into some difficult subjects – people who don’t like having someone take their photo. Here are a few ideas to help you deal with them.
The Art Deco Storm Before the Hyperspace Hoopla
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is a mecca for Art Deco architecture. It also seems to be a magnet for storms in the summer.
Taming Overwhelming Colors in HDR
It’s easy to produce overwhelming colors in HDR processing. You get some crazy colors out of Photomatix and other tools. Now how to you bring them back down to Earth? Photomatix has more tools now than when I first started using it, but it’s still not the end of your HDR processing. Those crazy, grungy…
Umbrella Lighting
I think umbrella lighting gets a bad rap these days. When should you reach back to the basics and use an umbrella for your portraits? Don’t misunderstand me. I love my softboxes. Strip lights, big octa boxes and grids are fun toys to use. It’s an interesting mental exercise to craft your lighting and there…
The Return of Flickr
Flickr excited a lot of people with its new interface this week. Are the changes more than skin deep? Like many other people, I was very happy to see the new interface that Flickr unveiled to display photos. When someone visits my Flickr stream now, this is what they’ll see. The New and Improved Flickr…
Point and Shoot HDR
Sometimes I don’t feel like lugging my heavy DSLR around. Fortunately, it’s just as easy to do Point and Shoot HDR. Have you ever looked at a photographer’s Gear Page and thought it would take forever and a fortune to buy all of that stuff? I don’t have everything listed on my page (must be…