about 4 months ago - 1 comment
I am indeed blessed to have three terrifically photogenic kids to use as subjects. The aforementioned terrifically photogenic kids are less thrilled by this prospect, but I am able to get some decent shots from them from time to time. I just have to skillfully weave bribery, coercion, and brilliantly constructed lies (“I swear, just More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
There is no better lighting than natural light. If you stay out of direct sunlight you are rewarded with the warmest, softest light that wraps around you subject in the most pleasing way. Here are two quick portraits I shot the other day using nothing but diffuse sunlight coming in through a window:
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about 1 year ago - No comments
1/40 second at f/4.0, ISO 200, focal length 109mm
By all rights this image should not exist. This was a spur-of-the-moment shot. It was taken indoors, with oblique, late-afternoon light streaming through the window, and using shutter speed that was almost a third slower than my non-image-stabilized lens required. I had just walked indoors and hadn’t More >