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From Friday Foto |
Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis) is a plant in the mustard family.
This journal documents my experiences with a Canon 50D, my first DSLR camera, purchased on Oct. 16, 2008. The camera was end-of-lined by Canon in July 2010 and there are rumours of the 60D.
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From Friday Foto |
Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis) is a plant in the mustard family.
photographer photos
Today's bonus is Nick Onken's portfolio. He's a lifestyle (catalog or ads) and portrait photographer. I especially love the compositions in his children portfolio.
Note: site requires Flash. To see his portfolio, click on "photography" in the menu along the top.
The key to this kind of product photography is to use center-weighted averaging metering and to over-expose the shot (+1.5EV in this case) and have the bowl blend into the background.
Most of the time was spent re-arranging the fruit in the bowl. Since I was going to eat the fruit later, I couldn't use the usual tricks of food photography— gluing the fruit down it doesn't move. The bowl was on sale at IKEA for $1.99.
gear
The whole point of getting an SLR the ability of choosing the appropriate lens for the type of photography you are going to do. With a point-and-shoot, you have only one lens, which has to perform in a range of situations (landscape, sports, macro, portrait, ect.) and so leads to a compromise in quality. So, how do you choose a lens?
The comments make for interesting reading, my favourite being: "Good pictures are 80% photographer, 15% hardware and 5% luck. And 10% nudity."
The article recommend prime lenses (single focal length) over a zoom. I have recently become a believer in that school of photography. Once you decide to go prime, the second choice you have to make is whether you prefer to shoot 24mm/50mm/100mm or 35mm/85mm/135mm.
technique
Choosing the correct resampling algorithm when resizing photographs in Photoshop makes a big difference in how they look. Choose Bicubic resampling when resizing images for the web.
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From FridayFoto: Downtown |
"Paint your Faith" mural detail on the remaining side the rectory of the United Metropolitan Church. The church hall and part of the rectory were demolished to make way for a condominium.
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From Friday Foto |
Violet-blue Clematis, from the Greek word klématis, a climbing plant, of about 200 species. The oils are extremely irritating to the skin and mucous membranes; the plant is considered toxic. Taken with the Canon S30 in my sister's garden.
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For the past two weeks, I have been photographing the research labs and the researchers in our department, for stock images. It involved emailing all the faculty a request to photograph their lab along with the description of what I had in mind and arrange a meeting with them and their students to see the facilities and arrange a time that they would all be available to be photographed.
Photography was done exclusively with the 24/1.4L prime lens. I used a hot-light with a reflector, mounted on a stand to brighten-up the shadows and give indirect lighting when I switched-off the overhead lights (see photos with the bluish light). I forgot to photograph the lighting setup.
Most of the photos are not post-processed.