Category: Photography
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Shutter Speed – The Basics
Lesson #4 in Photography for Ignorant Geniuses In the greater scheme of things, shutter speed is probably one of the easier concepts to understand in photography. It affects the feeling of movement within an image. At the most basic level you only need to understand one simple concept: If the shutter speed is short (fast)…
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Gone Fishin’
Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 f2.8 IS USM lens) Shot on Aperture priority Focal Length: 17mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm) Aperture: f4.5 Exposure: 1/100s ISO 100 Went to see a new (or rather very old) lens to add to my collection today. Still very undecided about it, but after I was done from seeing the lens (and…
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Fashion Shoot: SALE SALE SALE
An entire “fashion story”, as Vida’s editor (Sarah) likes to call them, just in time for Fashion Friday. They were shot for Vida’s February issue. I couldn’t show them off when I shot them, but now that the magazine is out (and they’re finishing off the March issue, once again with a set of photos…
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Frozen Bench
Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 f2.8 IS USM lens) Shot on Aperture priority Focal Length: 17mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm) Aperture: f4.5 Exposure: 1/640s ISO 200 One of the photos I took in France a couple of weeks ago. I went out shooting in St Marcellin de Cray, a little village in Burgundy, and managed to stick…
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Sweet Valentine
Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 f2.8 IS USM lens) Shot on Aperture priority Focal Length: 54mm (35mm equivalent: 86mm) Aperture: f2.8 Exposure: 1/160s ISO 200 When in Grenoble a week or so ago, we took a tram across the city from where we were staying and then walked back. The temperatures were well below…
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Controlling Depth of Field
Lesson #3 in Photography for Ignorant Geniuses Most amateur photographers look at photos taken by people with slightly more knowledge in the subject and try to understand how their backgrounds look blurry, therefore making the subject stand out much more. In this lesson we shall go into the reason the background (or foreground) is blurry…