Panning is a very nice and simple photographic effect, that is very simple to implement.I’m pretty sure had some panning in your photography even if you didn’t want to.For getting the panning effect right you have to follow the basic steps that I’ll talk about in the following post, the base for a prefect panning is slow shutter speed,not to slow and not to fast.
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This post is for you guys that needed for some reason another umbrella, but what the heck, you don’t have another studio tripod that you can attach a swivel head that will hold the your flash and umbrella. So you are stuck? You say there must be a solution for that? Get your camera tripod and use it as a flash&umbrella holder!!!Easy thing to do and all you need is 3 things:
Small swivel flash holder- you probably already have one and if not you must have one.
The camera tripod thing that holds the camera to the tripod.
The item you probably don’t have and that’s the time to get it is the 1/4″ and 3/8″ Female Threaded screw Adapter , so go on and get one, you’ll see that you might need it. Search on ebay or go to your local studio camera store.
One of the photography magazines that I read regularly is Popular Photography.I actually don’t remember when I first read this magazine, as my father was the one who started with it way back in the 80′s and I bealive that I can read English since I was 10, so that makes it the middle 80′s. But lets talk about the last issue of PopPhoto.
In the last issue, there is an article about “Lighting Like a Pro”, Covering some very common topics we photographers are interested and spending lot of online time reading about:
This great stuff is wrapped with an article that covers the 10 things you don’t know about light.
This is a must read issue!!!
Lately I find it very fun to shoot some films with old and not automatic film cameras. I find it a joy to use those metallic old age cameras, and the look of the developed photographs is something different from the digital cameras too. There is something about the film you use instead of the digital sensor, and I think much of the difference in the outcome is about the optics. They definitely used different glass back then, no L DG or any other marks on the lens, but simple 50mm f/1.4 manual and thats all!!!.
Some of the cameras that I own has built in light meters, in my Russian Zenith ET the light meter doesn’t work any more and in my Pentax the light meter works, but only with a battery the is very hard to find in Israel.
So I got my self the light meter my father used some 20 years ago, when there where no alternatives or built in light meters. The only thing was that he didn’t really remember how to operate it. After some research here is my “crash manual” on how to use your old light meter. read more
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After youtube got filled with the “promotional” movies about the upcoming Photoshop CS5, Its my time to make a funny movie about it.
As you already know there are some new brilliant features to the CS5, not kidding, some of the stuff is stunning and might look some of science fiction, if I had not seen it with my own eyes I wouldn’t believe it:
But here is diyphotographystuff.info contribution to the CS5 madness : Adobes photoshop’s CS5 Prediction tool.
Just open a picture or print screen a web page, fill in the time you want to predict click Enter and Adobe will predict the future for you!!!
See it:
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My wife’s sister is an architect and as one she starts to work on an online internet portfolio. Many times before she goes out for a location, she asks me for some tips about how to shoot better photographs than using the automatic (P,Av,Tv) modes. So I have to be the one that instructs, tip and help. I must admit that I had no experience shooting indoor architecture photographs automatically the first step will be to find pictures of such work and try to figure out what the photographer did there.
If you’ll get some architectural or lifestyle magazine you see that most of the pictures have the same “look” and many things in common:
So if you ask yourself how to get those results, here are my tips for better Indoor architectural photography:
I must say that some of the promotional video published on YouTube regarding the soon new arrival of the Photoshop CS5 , looks to me as if its science fiction! As if those movies are some video effects and not real image retouching capabilities!
You must see this one (or any other movie just search YouTube for photoshop CS5), its really amazing work, done in a couple of seconds. Yes probably with a super duper,state of the art computer, but yet its amazing technology that I’m eager to test!!!
You are going to enjoy this one, that I promise!
As I mentioned a couple of posts before, one of the most common ways to build a DIY grid for small flashes is to use the “glue it straws” way. “The glue it straws” way was cover in this post DIY grid , basically you cut some straws into small tubes and arrange them in a box and glue them together into a box shape, about the size of your flash head, very simple .
There are a couple of advantages to that method –
There are some disadvantages too –
As I was looking through Ebay for some gel filter holder solution, I entered this store called the strobist corner (visit link at the bottom), among some good value gel filter kits, there was this diy grid material! simple and good stuff. I got the basic kit , it includes 3 different grid material pieces for different effects 15,25 and 45 degrees, it all costs about 10$ (Honl will cost about 30$ for just one piece…). Thats all, you don’t have to cut straws any more. The basic kit comes without grid flash holders, so in the video below you’ll the most easy way to “connect” it to your flash head using handy sticky Velcro .
I’ll also post about my first impressions and photography examples using this kit, as I have an impression its a great way to use grids!!!
diy grid flash holder (youtube video)
DIY projects