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 III
Written by Gary on February 4th, 2012
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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New Craft & Vision E-Book about Printing your Photos
Written by Gary on January 20th, 2012
Canon 5D MK III rumored to be announced in March | Ubergizmo
Written by Gary on January 20th, 2012The Exposure Lock Button
Written by Gary on January 17th, 2012I 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.
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.
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, 2012Histograms in the Nikon D5100
Written by Gary on January 10th, 2012I 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:
- Click the Menu button
- Select the Playback menu (play icon)
- Select ‘Playback display options’
- Choose the playback display options you’d like to see while reviewing images (Highlights, RGB histogram, Shooting data (EXIF), Overview).
- 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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