DX must have lens for NIKON:
17-55 nikkor lens
FX: must have lens for NIKON:
70-200 VRII
24-70 nikkor lens
14-24 nikkor lens
Monday, February 28, 2011
D-Town Episode Briefings
#64 Episode tips
1)don´t worry about histogram, concentrate on Highlight clipping
2) cheap V-flats can be made out of black gaffers tape + coroplast
3) beauty dish-Jeremy Cowart uses it with Prophoto Grid
#65 Episode tips:
1)cold weather problems: feet insole warmers keep camera batteries warm to avoid losing charge quickly
2)In Lightroom, the recovery slide helps with clipped highlights
3)Digimarc (paid service in Photoshop) provides very effective watermarks.
1)don´t worry about histogram, concentrate on Highlight clipping
2) cheap V-flats can be made out of black gaffers tape + coroplast
3) beauty dish-Jeremy Cowart uses it with Prophoto Grid
#65 Episode tips:
1)cold weather problems: feet insole warmers keep camera batteries warm to avoid losing charge quickly
2)In Lightroom, the recovery slide helps with clipped highlights
3)Digimarc (paid service in Photoshop) provides very effective watermarks.
Friday, February 04, 2011
MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.749 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion, Spring 2009 | Home
This class looks the most interesting so far...
MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.749 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion, Spring 2009 | Home
MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.749 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion, Spring 2009 | Home
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.348 Photography and Truth, Spring 2008 | Home
I just found this class offered at MIT about photography. I will be looking through the material next week and adding more thoughts. If anyone has taken this course, or is interested in reading through the material and discussing it with me, please leave a comment.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.348 Photography and Truth, Spring 2008 | Home
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.348 Photography and Truth, Spring 2008 | Home
www.smugmug.com
This business has really helped organize our photographs so that clients can easily access them online. Since most of our clients live in different cities and cannot visit our studio, our smugmug membership provides a place for us to upload the images onto the Internet and let people view our work. We are very happy with all of the features smugmug offers such as unlimited storage space for our photos, the ability to sell downloads and prints and especially the privacy control of our photo albums. I have used many other online photosharing websites, but nothing that I tried compares to the smugmug´s quality.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Kindle Book: the Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally
Favorite quote from his book: In a world where every day passesas as fast and disjointed as an MTV video, where even your average TV show jars the viewer with about three camera angles per second, and where life is a series of quick cut from the cellphone to the landline to the e-mail to the text message to the rush to the airport for the redeye for the early call...sheesh...and you´re out there with a frikkin´camera trying to stop everything. Suspend everything. Hold a moment. Pause. Breathe. Look.
This book was one of the reasons why I decided to start ordering kindle books to read on my PC. I used to think that the enjoyment of reading is lost by reading books on the computer. My new thought is that a good book is a good book, whether I am able to hold the book in my hand or read it on a screen. And that is what "the Hot Shoe Diaries" is for me, a REALLY good book!
Joe first shows the gear he uses. He says that he uses aperture priority, which I think is practical for someone with the D3 because it has extremely high ISO potential(200-6400). Joe does not push his camera to high ISOs very often because he has a steady hand and takes pictures at slow speeds very well. He ALWAYS shoots in RAW.
EV on Camera vs. EV on Flash
Camera exposure benefits:
1) flat sky-underexpose for more color and punch
2) dark subject-overexpose for high key rendition
GLOBAL ADJUSTMENT!
EV controls on flash benefits:
SELECTIVE ADJUSTMENT!
REAR SYNC SPEED: subject has power, focus and speed
Very important for slow speed photos (1/30th of a second)
Joe recommends putting the flash in iTTL mode
Pre-flash:double lightening bolt symbol signals to all of the channels in use
Balanced Light (BL): foreground and background roughly same exposure
High Speed Sync benefits: (25oth of a second or higher)
1)high noon, graduation portraits with good sky colors
Dispersion of Light: Dome Diffuser
shows environment, lifestyle and context
5ft-12ft away
Long distances w/out DD
800SB:max 105mm away
900SB:max 200mm away
FV Lock and Flash Off:must program the buttons
FV Lock off-no pre-flash to avoid blinkers
Gel only work when hot-shoes or on cord (SC-28 or 29)
"dragging the shutter"- keeping the f-stop constant for the flashed foreground and changing the shutter speed to accomodate the ambient light. The slower the shutter speed, the softer the flash effect will look
This book was one of the reasons why I decided to start ordering kindle books to read on my PC. I used to think that the enjoyment of reading is lost by reading books on the computer. My new thought is that a good book is a good book, whether I am able to hold the book in my hand or read it on a screen. And that is what "the Hot Shoe Diaries" is for me, a REALLY good book!
Joe first shows the gear he uses. He says that he uses aperture priority, which I think is practical for someone with the D3 because it has extremely high ISO potential(200-6400). Joe does not push his camera to high ISOs very often because he has a steady hand and takes pictures at slow speeds very well. He ALWAYS shoots in RAW.
EV on Camera vs. EV on Flash
Camera exposure benefits:
1) flat sky-underexpose for more color and punch
2) dark subject-overexpose for high key rendition
GLOBAL ADJUSTMENT!
EV controls on flash benefits:
SELECTIVE ADJUSTMENT!
REAR SYNC SPEED: subject has power, focus and speed
Very important for slow speed photos (1/30th of a second)
Joe recommends putting the flash in iTTL mode
Pre-flash:double lightening bolt symbol signals to all of the channels in use
Balanced Light (BL): foreground and background roughly same exposure
High Speed Sync benefits: (25oth of a second or higher)
1)high noon, graduation portraits with good sky colors
Dispersion of Light: Dome Diffuser
shows environment, lifestyle and context
5ft-12ft away
Long distances w/out DD
800SB:max 105mm away
900SB:max 200mm away
FV Lock and Flash Off:must program the buttons
FV Lock off-no pre-flash to avoid blinkers
Gel only work when hot-shoes or on cord (SC-28 or 29)
"dragging the shutter"- keeping the f-stop constant for the flashed foreground and changing the shutter speed to accomodate the ambient light. The slower the shutter speed, the softer the flash effect will look
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
D-Town TV
Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski are two well-established photographers that do a lot to help upandcomers. Among their thousands of projects that they are involved with, I really have liked the weekly online tv show they put together. During the fifteen minutes, they cover a bunch of interesting topics such as Nikon camera tips, "Cheap shots", shooting tips from guest photographers, etc... Most of the time, I learn at least one new idea from each episode. KelbyTV has a few more online tv shows such as NAPP News, Ask Dave, and Photoshop User TV. Though I have yet to check them out, Scott´s reputation for quality information makes me think that I should soon.
Here is the D-Town TV link: http://kelbytv.com/dtowntv/
Here is the D-Town TV link: http://kelbytv.com/dtowntv/
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