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Location lighting Part 3

restaurant21Until now, my discussions have been confined to just using one flash.

As you progress in your technical abilities, you will find you might like having a 2nd flash.

When you use a low shutter speed, you are actually using 3 lights sources: the 2 flash units and the ambient or available light. If you are working at night, you  have 2.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Canon 40D with 50 mm lens on a tripod. Since our faces were in the same plane, f8 was more than enough to keep us all in focus. Thanks Eric for taking our picture.

Happy Thanksgiving! This year I dragged out my portable studio for the Thanksgiving get-together.

Since I’ve made it a point to ask my students if they used their cameras over the weekend,  I felt I better “walk the walk not just talk the talk.” Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving

A Lady Falconer

As a freelance photographer I tend to photograph people mostly. After 20 years I am fortunate to still come across interesting people like freelance writer/author Rebecca O’ Connor, a UCR alumni.

She hunts ducks at the Salton Sea with her dog Booth an American Brittany Spaniel.

But she doesn’t use a firearm, only her 5-year-old peregrine falcon, Anakin.

Author of at least 9 books, Rebecca is a parrot consultant.

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