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| How a Camera Sees - how to impress family & friends with your technical knowledge | | Every year, I have the privilege of participating in Expanding Your Horizons, a program that encourages middle school girls women to enter mathematics and science fields of study. This article was originally written for these young women. |
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Get Organized! - how to find your files again after you've uploaded them
| | When I first entered the digital world, I didn’t have a good organizational system. As a result, many of my early files are difficult for me to retrieve. “Where DID I put that?” was a common refrain (along with some less ladylike language!) This article saves you from a similar fate...
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Why I shoot JPG - one side of the great .raw vs. .jpg debate
| | RAW vs. JPG? Professional photographers waste inordinate amounts of time arguing this subject. Here is Cherie's view on the subject.
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RAW vs. jpeg: The Case for RAW!
| | This discussion seems to go on forever – as in, forever, forever, for-eh-eh-ver and e-ver and e-ver! Ok, so not all of you are familiar with Handel’s Messiah, but I don’t think this debate will end any sooner than Handel’s music will. Still, here’s my way of looking at it. |
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| Posing People - The rules and how to break them | | When Neil and I first started in photography, we would watch print judging and listen to the judges discuss the merits and problems of various prints. Often we would hear about how the maker of a particular print had broken “the rules.” Breaking the rules was bad and usually resulted in a low score. As young, hip and “with it” photographers, we would roll our eyes at these stodgy old men (not too many women had qualified to be judges at that time) with their out-dated ideas of what a portrait should be that were stifling creativity. |
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| Composition - Make your images sing | | The term composition means “putting together.” In visual arts, whether photography, painting, sculpture, or graphic design, composition is the placement or arrangement of the visual elements in a work of art. |
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| FAQs -Reflectors diffusers and gobos | | When should I use a reflector? When you find yourself in a difficult lighting situation, you can often improve it with the use of a reflector by bouncing the light from the sun (or open sky) into the subject. You can increase the amount of light on the subject’s face. |
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| Why Digital? | | I’ve often been asked why Miriam and I chose to switch to digital capture for our portrait art, so I thought a written response would save me some time. Do you want to know why we left our beloved film behind? Why we just shut down the color lab we had operated for twenty-plus years (with no resale value to anything in it) and sold off one of our Mamiya RB67 medium format wonders? Well, here’s your answer. |
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| Top Five Secrets to Ensuring a Great Children’s Portrait Session | | Putting some forethought and planning into the session and communication with the parents will make all the difference in the world. Heed these things and you will have a happy experience and great photographs! This was written assuming you are photographing someone else’s child but the same ideas apply if it your own child we are talking about! |
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The lives of our creations
| | We all learn eventually that at least some of our creations, whether writings or photos or even scultpures, have their own lives and opinions. Listen to them! |
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| A Relaxed Subject | | A member asked the question: “How do you get people to relax when you’re photographing them?” That’s a GREAT question. To get the best portrait, a person needs to look relaxed and happy. In this article, I’ll talk about photographing adults – people over the age of 12 or so. |
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Heck on Wheels-Photographing the 18 month old
| | You hear about “the terrible two’s, but I think it starts as soon as a child learns to walk. Headstrong, mostly non-verbal, scared of strangers, and only stop moving when they are asleep. Does this sound like the ideal portrait subject to you? |
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Masculine Men
| | Don’t photograph men like you photograph women. Their portrait needs are very different. |
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Relaxed Clients
| | Many people are uncomfortable in front of a camera. OK, that’s putting it mildly. Many people are stiff & terrified in front of a camera. How do we, as photographers, help our clients to RELAX? |
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| Photographing Newborns | | A newborn baby presents its own set of challenges. Here are suggestions and posing tips for this amazing age. |
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