Posted in Editorial Photography, Flash Techniques, Photographic Education, Portrait Lighting, Product Photography, photographic lighting, portable flash, tagged photography, UCM, photography education, portrait photography, portable flash, Lumedyne Flash on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was a quick demo of overpowering the ambient light. I held a regular Lumedyne reflector at 400ws as close as I could and stay out of the picture. We dropped he ISO to 100 and cranked up the shutterspeed and aperture to cut the ambient light. I included some of the [...]
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Posted in Color Portrait, Editorial Photography, Photographic Education, Portrait Lighting, Wedding Photography, photographic lighting, portrait photography, tagged Wedding Photography, Portrait, portrait photography, Lightin Diagram on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
When we meter the Background and the Hair light we must first establish the light on the subject with an incident meter, as that is our control point.
Metering the Background must be done with a reflective meter aimed at the spot on the background where you want to place the value. An incident meter [...]
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Here is the method to create a lighting ratio using an incident meter.
Meter the fill alone and adjust the reading to an even f/stop for easy calculations. Now don’t adjust the fill!!
Meter the main plus fill and adjust the power to achieve the difference of fill alone to main plus fill. to create the [...]
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Posted in Color Portrait, Editorial Photography, Photographic Education, commercial photography, portrait photography, tagged commercial photography, High Key Lighting, Photographic Education, photography, portrait photography, UCM on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
High key is always a favorite for all kinds of photography. Portrait, editorial, advertising photographers find use for a bright white background. To do this correctly, and achieve a clean bright evenly lit background and a clear saturated rendering of the the subject we must set up our lighting and meter carefully.
Here are [...]
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Posted in Business, Digital Portfolio, Flash Website, PhotoBlog, Photographic Education, Wedding Photography, commercial photography, tagged commercial photography, Flash Templates, Photographers Website, Wedding Photography on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BluDomain
Blu is the big daddy of this business, they launch hundreds of sites every month.
We have 3 Blu sites that we use at SchmidtPhoto.com. Our current template is the GEORGE. It features large photos, but we found that they were too large for many home computers. We are in the process of [...]
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I was impressed with the efforts of my students last semester and I wanted to share a few pics that stood out.
The first photographer is Drew Woolery, these shots where done in the Creative Class. He has captured a set of portraits of the locals that is quite telling and impressive.
Sarah Gaughan combined a great [...]
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Posted in Digital Portfolio, HDR, PhotoBlog, Photographic Education, panorama, panorama photography, tagged Add new tag, HDR photography, Pano Bracket, panorama, panorama photography, photograpy education, UCM on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been shooting panoramas lately and stitching the multiple shot together with Panorama Factory. I bought this software several years back when I was shooting with a Nikon Cool-pix 990. I was pretty satisfied with that combination at the time. More recently I have been shooting a Canon 5d with a homemade panorama bracket [...]
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Here are the help files for using the Dynamic Photo HDR!!
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Posted in Business, Digital Portfolio, PhotoBlog, Photographic Education, Uncategorized, tagged Wedding Photography, UCM, portrait photography, Photographic Education, commercial photography, Jessica Claire, OSP, Open Source Photo on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this post on OpensourcePhoto.net this morning.
My reading about Blogging has suggested that the new world of the web will be conversational websites and that all websites will be Blogs.
The traditional web site is too static and not interactive. It does encourage the visitor to come back to the site. In addition to that the [...]
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