Monthly Archives: September 2009
Au naturale lighting
We found the perfect little grassy corner to practice shooting under natural light. It was a small landscaped grassy section alongside a small hill that blocked out the setting sun. The ideal condition for natural light shooting outdoors is always under a shade (or at best an overcast gray day... the clouds become a huge [...]
Yummy night time bokeh
Depth of Field creates the blurry background that you will often see in photos. Bokeh is the quality of that creamy blurry background. My favorite bokeh shots are not the daytime ones... they're the nighttime shots. Here's a shot of neighborhood house lights a block away from our house. I thought it'd be fun to [...]
Summer is fading… Fall is here
It's strange how we see things differently now that we've jumped into this photography hobby of ours. Everywhere we go, everything we do, we try to find the photographic element in it. Every magazine.. we're looking at the poses. Every tv commercial we're looking at creative effects... and just last week, every street [...]
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DIY mod: Radio Popper PX splitter
First off, a little back story just in case you've never heard of Radio Poppers. They are wireless triggers for your speedlights. I started using Radio Poppers a few months ago for outdoor shoots. Why use a radio trigger over the already wireless Nikon CLS system? Well... the Nikon CLS system is infrared based (like [...]
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