Here’s a quick little video that shows a colling lighting effect and gives some basic info about your histogram and info palette.
Happy Editing!
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Editing your pictures for the web and quick prints should be an easy fast process. Here are the steps that I usually follow. 1. Crop (I do this first to help me know what I’m working with). Following a recipe like this, just a few simple steps, should only take a few minutes. Good luck! Remember, I’m here Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
So are girl photographers just dumb about the whole technical aspect of photography? That was meant to be an inflammatory statement (my brothers are famous for them). But I really got thinking about this after reading David Hobby’s blog post about the gender gap of his readership on the incredibly popular Strobist (a blog dedicated to providing information on how to use off camera flash) and the attendance to his flash workshops (6% vs. 75%). What was more intesting to me than the article itself were the 200+ responses on his blog including one woman who wrote that she never noticed there was a gender gap…and I thought, is she autistic? If we don’t want to get fired from our positions at a Harvard, maybe, we’d say there is no difference in the way men and women approach, learn, and do photography. After reading this I’ve been ruminating about this….it would be politically correct to say…no, but it is honest to say….yep…generally women are dumber about the technical aspects of photography than men. You can quote me on that. As a whole women may not be as technically savvy as men with camera technical issues, but they certainly don’t let it hold them back. I can’t speak for my gender because I, more than most people, am technically developmentally delayed with technical stuff. Some of this is by choice; I don’t text or know how to use a DVD player (I don’t watch DVD’s) and some of it simply due to the fact that I am a little slow in processing written technical information. As a rule, I never shoot in anything other than manual on my camera and for my flash, only because by shooting in these modes, I always know what I’m going to get. Show me and I’ll be just fine. I did this shot and a whole bunch of others after watching commercial photographer Michael Schoenfeld Michael Schoenfeld do a test shoot. I thought, hmmm, “I can do that.” For this shot, I didn’t want just another pretty picture. I want to capture the fragility and uncertainty of childhood. I used an off camera Canon Speedlite flash a 60′ umbrella that my inebriated friend had stepped on, and a reflector that the neighborhood kids had used as a parachute, in my small dining area. I have no backdrop so the set up is just about as low tech as you can get when it comes to off camera flash, but I was thrilled with the results. Flash set 1/4 +.03 about three and half feet to the left of my subject. A reflector placed on the table where she was sitting to bounce the light up. Camera settings ISO 200, 125 ss, f 4.0 . I processed this relying heavily on my blue filter so that the skin would have a more gritty heavy feel. So the main point of this post is, “Don’t your fear or lack of technical knowledge hold you back, girls or not.” What are your thoughts? Do women photograph differently than men?
Just something to think about.
Here’s part two as promised of Photoshop Tools Palette. Some of these are available in Elements and some are not, but it is worth worth watching. The more you can navigate around in your program, you will be more become proficient and able to do the things you want to. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to add a border and text in Photoshop. Warning it is rated PG for showing an image of a grown man in his boxers. Why is there a grown man in his boxers? Well, it’s Casey’s birthday (he’s the big 44!) and I wanted to do something special for him so I made him a card in Photoshop and the only picture I have of him that he likes is one of him in his boxers which I took last year at his 43rd birthday party (I’m a huge fan of on sentences). So why is he in his boxers? Well, this is his kind of happy, not my kind, just his. I knew if I showed up after his last birthday party had been going for awhile I could get a shot of him enjoying his kind of happy and he might be more willing to go along for a “birthday” shot of in his “birthday suit”. I didn’t want a ” the full birthday” shot (though he did offer). And how do I beat last year’s gift of this shot which I did post for all our Davis High Alumni? Well, I make him a birthday card and post it for the whole world to see! So happy big 4-4 Casey and know that I love ya! (especially with your clothes on). One question I had recently in a workshop was, “Why won’t my flash work very well?” What about reducing red eyes with flash?Most cameras now have a feature to that you can use so you don’t have to worry about it. You can read more on this link: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question51.htm How to fix red eyes in photos you’ve already taken. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/ps_redeye_as.shtml And here’s a free action from Lonely Walker that removes the red eye for you. What a guy! http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/ht/apsredeye.htm  |
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