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Peter Phun on February 13th, 2010

Unless you have darkroom experience, you probably won’t know what a “contact sheet” or “proof sheet” is.
Now that we have digital photography, the term itself is irrelevant.
The “contact sheet” or “proof sheet” is nothing more than a grid of thumbnails of your entire shoot which displays unique numbers underneath each image.
A lot can be learned [...]

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Peter Phun on January 24th, 2010

A change of attire for a different mood–Getting different looks for their models is often a goal for photographers. It can be something as simple as letting their hair down and introducing a colored backlight. Here is the setup for the lights.

Before you tear down the set sometimes you have to ask yourself, “What else [...]

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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 8th, 2010

Santa brought me this–The big spender that I am, I kept it under $100. I paid $60.94 shipped for this San Disk Firewire 800 Compact Flash card reader. If you’re shooting with large compact flash cards, you won’t be disappointed. There’s some talk that USB 2.0 will be updated/replaced by USB 3.0 soon but who [...]

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