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Photographing People and Hating Dell

Thu Jun 21, 2007, 12:05 AM
  • Mood: Frustrated
  • Listening to: Slipknot
  • Reading: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
  • Playing: the game of life
  • Eating: spaghetti and meatballs
  • Drinking: smoothies
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I just spent about 2.5 hours working on how to register and return my monitor which is about 9 months old and already has a small cluster of dead pixels. Their site is so horribly confusing and badly constructed. The process was ridiculous! I just have bad luck I guess.

As for photography, I have been doing a little here and there and definitely some more flash work. I am going to get this down if it kills me. I am learning that it is a really useful tool almost anywhere inside. I have not yet figured it out for use out of doors except for portraits.

I am glad that people seem to like some of my recent work. I am finally really fine tuning my camera skills and Photoshop post production tricks to a point where I am rather happy with what I am turning out on the whole.

My next move is towards having more people in my photographs whether they be the subject or just a compliment to it. I really liked how "Photography" turned out and I think it was very much due to fact that it utilized a person. So, I want to capture more of that sort of scene. I will soon be making a trip to an abandoned set of building near me which should be rather interesting and photographic intensive.

Take it easy,
Zac

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:iconwezre:
~Wezre Jun 23, 2007   Photographer
I've used wireless flash a few times outside when doing closeup shots later in the day (see [link] and [link]).

You can also do stuff at night with it to selectively light up a landscape/building/whatever. Think of your camera set up on a tripod outside some building. You put it in bulb mode, trip the shutter, then walk into the building with the flash. Then, you can go to whichever rooms you want, fire off a flash in each one, and you'll have a selectively illuminated building. It might not be quite as simple as I made it sound (you might need to tinker with exposure settings), but there's really a lot you can use flash for.

Flash could also be used to illuminate a small area if you're doing a landscape that includes the moon. This way you can expose correctly for the moon, and then also light up some of the foreground of the landscape.
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:iconthedrifterzaz:
I really like the selective lighting idea for night photography. I am definitely going to try that in the near future. I really want to photograph this huge underground room that doesn't have any lights and I think this would be an awesome way to do it. Also, thank you for the moon idea, I am definitely going to play with that one too.
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:iconwezre:
~Wezre Jul 2, 2007   Photographer
I haven't actually tried either of those, but I have seen the selective lighting used in one photo that I really liked.
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:iconthedrifterzaz:
Yeah. they seem like good ideas
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:iconheatherwaller-rivet:
~HeatherWaller-Rivet Jun 21, 2007  Professional Photographer
Sorry to hear bout your monitor...but have a fantastic weekend:D
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~HeatherWaller-Rivet Jun 22, 2007  Professional Photographer
most welcome:D
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