Taryn III

Written by Gary on February 4th, 2012

Taryn, originally uploaded by gdetonnancourt.

I don’t usually leave a light in my images but I like the effect this on produced.

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Taryn

Written by Gary on February 2nd, 2012

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Studio Lighting Class

Written by Gary on February 1st, 2012

This is a shot I took last week when I was teaching my studio lighting class. This is Taryn and she is lit with a beauty dish in this beauty shot.

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BARNES & NOBLE | More Than A Snap Shot: A Digital Photography Workbook by Gary Detonnancourt, Lulu.com | NOOK Book eBook

Written by Gary on January 30th, 2012

 

 

BARNES & NOBLE | More Than A Snap Shot: A Digital Photography Workbook by Gary Detonnancourt, Lulu.com | NOOK Book eBook.

 

 

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New Craft & Vision E-Book about Printing your Photos

Written by Gary on January 20th, 2012
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$5 E-Book

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Canon 5D MK III rumored to be announced in March | Ubergizmo

Written by Gary on January 20th, 2012

Canon 5D MK III rumored to be announced in March | Ubergizmo.

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The Exposure Lock Button

Written by Gary on January 17th, 2012

I never used the exposure lock button very often because on Canon cameras the exposure will lock when you press the shutter button half way down as long as you are using AI focus and One Shot.  In any other mode you would have to use the AF lock button, and if you have a Nikon you have to the the AE-L button all the time because pressing the shutter button doesn’t lock the exposure.  Try it and prove it to yourself.  Press the shutter have way down then swing the camera left or right and watch what happens to the shutter speed, (in aperture priority mode) if it changes your exposure is not locked.

So when do you need to lock your exposure?  It becomes especially important when you’re using the partial metering mode or spot metering mode.  In the first image below I used the partial metering mode and I didn’t lock the exposure.  I locked focus on my daughter’s face but didn’t lock the exposure so when I recomposed it made the meter readings off of the leaves in the background making the picture underexposes.

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In the second picture I use the AE-L button when the center focus spot was pointed at her face.  Now the camera is reading the exposure off her face and she is brighter.

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No exposure adjustments were made in the camera or the computer.  What you see is a result of using the partial metering mode and the exposure lock button.  Give it a try and see how it works for you.

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Lightroom Beta 4 is Available

Written by Gary on January 10th, 2012

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Histograms in the Nikon D5100

Written by Gary on January 10th, 2012

I teach a lot of photography classes and a recent issue has been that you don’t automatically see the histogram in the Nikon D5100 so this is how you turn on this feature.

To enable the histogram and other display options such as EXIF:

  1. Click the Menu button
  2. Select the Playback menu (play icon)
  3. Select ‘Playback display options’
  4. Choose the playback display options you’d like to see while reviewing images (Highlights, RGB histogram, Shooting data (EXIF), Overview).
  5. When reviewing an image, press the down arrow on the directional pad to cycle through displays in the order of default view -> Highlights -> Histogram -> Shooting Data -> Overview.

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Cardinal

Written by Gary on December 30th, 2011

Next time I would like to catch one surrounded by snow.  The trick to getting a close up of a bird like this is to use a long lens and get up close to a bird feeder.  After awhile the birds will forget your there and you can click away.  I used a 400 mm lens hand held.  A tripod would have been better but I was running and gunning through a nature preserve.  The other accessory that cold have helped would be my flash with a better beamer attached to it.

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