Peter Phun on January 22nd, 2010

In my previous post “Photographing a belly dancer,” I mentioned how you have to make do when you don’t have control over the lighting and access to the performing/dance area.
I started wondering how much better my images could look, if I had more control, the control freak that I am.
So I got together with Hadia Habibi.
I [...]

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Peter Phun on January 4th, 2010

Artists in their own rights—Marvin and Maria were among my students who took part in a class show at the local coffeehouse Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside. Every 1st Thursday of the month, galleries downtown feature local artists’s work. See my other students who participated after the jump.

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Peter Phun on November 26th, 2009

Multiple exposure–Prior to layers in Photoshop, multiple exposures in camera required some doing. In this particular picture. I exposed the same frame of film 3 times by cocking the shutter and not advancing that frame between each exposures. I also adjusted the exposure this way. If the scene metered 1/125 sec @ f2.8. I first [...]

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Peter Phun on October 28th, 2009

The title of this should be of interest to the majority of you.
Ask any pro who’s been burned and they’ll tell you even though they may have this tool, they never live and die by it.
I have it only as a last resort.
Yesterday one of my students shot something in class.
In between her completing her [...]

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