Posts from the category Photographic technique
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Open air studio
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After trying out the lighting technique I mentioned yesterday, of a large diffused light source right above the subject, I wanted to apply the technique to an outdoor location. When we set up the shots under cover in Interlaken (but outside), the first problem was that there were no suitably white walls to hand. If…
Inspiration vs. reason
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A friend asked me over the Christmas break how I manage to retain my drive for taking photos. I gave it some thought over the past few days and thought that my answer might be useful or interesting to other photographers or artists and so here it is.
Black and white Lightroom presets by MikeyG
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An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.
iPhone and AirTunes
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How I’ve hooked up my iPhone, laptop and stereo system to have a 50Gb wireless audio system at home.
Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.
Niels and the Showgirl
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An unplanned shot, taken of volunteer Niels for the One Frame Movie set of photographs I was working on a few weeks back.
Au Voleur*
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The next in my series of theatrical photographs, featuring fellow photographer Tilman Jentzsch.
Lessons in lighting
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A photograph from a session in Zurich, and the lessons in lighting and technique which make it one of the more successful session shots of the past few months.
Getting good prints from a lab – part 1
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Having bought a Mamiya 645 a few months ago, I wanted to make a return to the traditional chemical processing techniques which I used for many years until switching to a digital workflow in 2004. I’m interested in the difference in print quality – in terms of sharpness and colour reproduction – between traditional printing…
It’s the idea that counts
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The most inspirational photographs are often those where the lighting plan doesn’t play a major role; those where the idea and aim of the picture takes the lead.
Subtle lighting
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A new colleague joined our team at the day job this week, so as usual, I was called into service to take portrait shots for our team’s blog and website.
“Kelbification”
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After seeing a few shots around the internet in a certain darkened, de-saturated style, I asked around to see if anyone was familiar with the post-processing technique which is used to create it.
Date selected for Swiss Strobist day in Lausanne
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The date for the next Swiss Strobist photographic meetup in Lausanne (Switzerland) has been selected.
Modelling tip number one: don’t hide
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If you want to take a photo of someone else that they’ll be happy with, or if you’re being photographed, then here are the most important non-technical tips to remember.
Stay away from the “Delete” button
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By whittling down pictures while you are still shooting, or when you are trying to assess their merits on a tiny little screen, you always run the risk of deleting a shot which later turns out to be one you really like.
Light in the darkness
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With the arrival of warmer weather and longer, sunnier evenings, I am able to begin using a technique which works in many places with dark, deep shadows and small patches of bright sunlight. Here are a few examples and a description of how to achieve this kind of shot. The shots in this article are…
Alien abduction
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That was the idea, anyway. I’ve been inspired by Nick Turpin’s street shots, using high, undiffused strobes, and have been experimenting on and off with the technique. This is a shot from this evening in the woods near my home, which uses a single flashgun on a 3 metre stand out of shot to the…
My Mamiya
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I arranged to go to the bi-annual photographic market in Bern this weekend with Beat, to see what accessories we can find for our medium-format cameras. Being tired last night, at the end of a tiring day and long week, I forgot completely that the market is on Sunday, not Saturday. Unfortunately, I only realised…
One of those laptop shots
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A work colleague, backlit by the sun coming in through the window, flash laid on keyboard and bounced from laptop screen at 1/8 power to give f 2.8 at ISO 100. Fill-in flash from camera right at 1/1 power (losing 2 stops due to diffusion). And a little bit of dark vignette added during post-processing…
