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Some Great Photogs

Posted on December 10, 2009

Here’s some photogs I like looking at daily:

Pittsburgh Wedding Photogapher Christina Montemurro a great wedding photographer in Pittsburgh.
San Diego Photographer Sylvia Borgo, a family, child and newborn photographer in San Diego.
St. Louis, Missouri Wedding Photography by Karen Hendrix (Firefly). Karen photographs babies and weddings in St. Louis, Missouri.

10 Tips To Get Started In Child & Family Portrait Photography

Posted on August 7, 2009

I’ve been shooting portrait photography in West Palm Beach, Florida for almost a year now. Prior to then I had studied photography about 20 years ago and had spent quite a bit of time working with film and processing it in a dark room. After school I had moved more into movie film and had shot a couple of short films and music videos. Back then I had felt this was a more creative outlet for me but a far less instantaneous form of satisfaction from what photography gives you. Anyway, since picking up a DSLR a year ago I’ve had to teach myself all over again how to take better pictures from learning these new fancy cameras to lighting techniques etc. I would also say that my style has changed a handful of times since day one. Someone asked me 6 months ago what my style was and I simply replied “what style?”. Now, things are slowly coming together and I can say that I have now found my style. Took a bit longer than I thought but I think I’m finally there. So if you’re just starting out here’s 10 things that I learned in the last year and hopefully they’ll give you a head start in becoming a better photographer. Oh, I should mention that I’ve had absolutely NO training or attended a single workshop so don’t think you need to either.

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Show Em Your Guns!

Posted on April 10, 2009

Some people have been asking me how I achieved this shot, which was taken last weekend during a client session. Essentially this is just a simple case of using off-camera flash and exposing for the subject, in this case Scott and his son, and then underexposing for the sky by a stop or two in order to capture the sunset. Since we were on a time crunch we shot fast as the sun went down and then moved on to a new location. Later when I loaded the image on my screen I noticed the sunset was not as rich as I wanted so it was time for some post-processing magic!

There are a couple of ways to achieve the end result, but the easiest method was just a case of knocking the exposure down a bit more than what was shot in camera and outputting multiple images, each with a different exposure setting. This is why you should always shoot in RAW format because exposure adjustment is one of the things that is simple to do in post-production. With the different exposed images I was able to then combine them all together using a tool called PhotoMatix, the end result a correctly exposed subject and sky.