Setting up for dangerous stunt–Thanks to one of my students Tabatha King who shared this with me. I’m manually focusing on the doll in this picture. The aperture set at f22 should give me plenty of depth-of-field providing I don’t vary the distance of the doll from my arm too much. You may have to experiment on some settings like focal length, shutter speeds and how fast you are spinning around.
An imagination is important.
I wrack my brains a lot on how best to show what the camera sees when we make certain choices of aperture versus shutter–the ho-hum basics, I know.
My trial and error approach can cause me to literally fall on my face if I’m not careful.
Available light portraiture–Keeping things simple is sometimes the best way to go especially when you don’t have a lot of fancy gear. This portrait inside the St. Catherines of Alexandria Church, Riverside, CA was done using window light on the left and a reflector on the right. Canon 80-200 zoom. ISO 400 1/125 @ f2.8
As the beneficiary of those “toys,” you get to shoot the annual extinguishing of birthday candles and other recurring events.
Those are the easy ones.
If you blow those, there’s always next year.
But not so for those milestones which happen only once in a lifetime.
Blowing that might mean a fast auction for your “toys” on ebay.
More likely, your next lens of piece of equipment will undergo a prolonged approval process by your “boss” who holds the purse strings.
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.
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.
You’ve spent lots of money on equipment and probably invested lot more in time with your camera. Now, you have a body of work that is respectable.
If you don’t share it or somehow show it to the world, you’re not going to be motivated to do better.
Let’s face it, we all love to hear that our work is wonderful.
How about ringing in the new year with 3 simple goals for your photography?
Thanks to computers and the internet, many of these suggestions are not that difficult anymore. Used to be you had to be a bit of a computer whiz but software has made things a lot easier. Continue reading Simple photography goals for the new year→
Photo tips from a creative Southern California photographer
