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Poor Man’s Brenizer Photoshop Technique – Video
A popular technique for getting a wide field of view but with a very shallow depth of field involves taking many photos and stitching them together – this “Brenizer Technique” is named for wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer. (He’s a bit of a strobist too!) It’s not always practical or possible to stitch many photos together [...]
Leica Summicron 35mm Takes on Home Depot
Sometimes life doesn’t leave as much time as we’d like for photography. That gap in time between one’s bachelor days and retirement can present a potential black hole of creativity and opportunity needed to exercise one’s Photography muscles and shoot like a boss…
Jersey Fresh – Mini photo projects help you focus
Heading back from a meeting in beautiful Buena NJ (home of Blackwater Pond Park and a big ass WAWA) I was happy to have my Leic M9 and Summicron 50mm f/2 in the passenger seat. I knew that I was in a beautiful part of the state on a bright sunny day but had that [...]
Photo critique: NEX-7 + Voigtlander 21mm f/4
So, I like this photo. Let’s break it down a bit to see how a simple little “toss away” photo can still have a little bit of punch. Here’s the image:
Mirrorless Camera vs. DSLR Image Quality Video
So, there’s always a lot of debate about the image quality of the new mirrorless interchangeable lens systems and cameras like the Sony NEX-7 and Fuji X-Pro vs. DSLRs like the Canon 5D Mark III. This video is a simple tour of what the main differences are between the traditional DSLR systems and the newer mirrorless sytems. [...]
The Leica M8 – A Eulogy
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air… On April 4, 2011 I captured the first photo with my M8. It was the start of an aesthetic love affair that ended just days ago. While the Leica M8 was exchanged for even happier things, I can’t help but look back on the images and time [...]
Shot Recipe – “Aperture Stacking” VIDEO
Photography, by its nature, is an act of compromise Becoming a BOSS at photography is really the process of understanding, leveraging, and in some cases – defeating these compromises. So, here’s a shot recipe that relies on a clever and simple Photoshop trick to eliminate one of the classic compromises in photography – that surrounds [...]
Free Video Class: Film Photography
Film is not dead. It is not dying. (It’s declining) Dying implies that death is the assured outcome and to imply that photographic film will cease to exist is dumb. I recently saw the best analogy about this – HORSES. At some point, cars started gaining popularity. If the INTERWEBS existed then, “armchair” transportation [...]
George Hurrell & photographing the impossibly beautiful
Confidence. Confidence. Confidence. Some photographers find a way find beauty in ordinary things. That makes sense. But what do you do when faced with a subject that possesses immense inherent beauty? I was recently faced with this question after encountering what I could only describe as an impossibly beautiful woman. You know what I’m talking [...]
Lightroom 3 for Black & White. Part 2 – Previsualization
So, as we continue this series on using Lightroom for black and white conversions, we look back to an old concept – previsualization. This video takes one image and presents it in a number of different ways – all achieved using Adobe Lightroom 3. Did you miss part 1? See part 1- using color contrasts- [...]
