Category archives: Technical and How-To
The soft colors of maternity, a shoot (Coney Island, Brooklyn)
MYTH: In order to get a great background in a photograph you need to be either in a fancy or shabby-chic apartment, or outside surrounded by exotic flowers and fields of daisies. FACT: You don't.
Actually all you need is the following:
- great lighting (can be natural light)
- including what you[...]
How to Pose in Front of the Camera (for Women)
While I pride myself on being a mostly photojournalistic (or documentary) photographer, I'm very conscious of how a BRIDE (or any woman) looks to the lens of a camera. There is definitely a way to look look more graceful/slim/curvy/whatever and hopefully this little tutorial will help women learn a[...]
Just a few pretty pics
This mini photoshoot was based mainly around testing the expodisc that I recently acquired. Your can see me shooting in the image on the right (yes I know you can see me).
Loving the negative soace in this photo.
The expodisc performed pretty well, given the mixture of natural and incandesce[...]
My obsession with the Canon fisheye and the 85mm lenses
Honestly I'm not sure what photographer wouldn't be obsessed with the 85mm L series lense. It has a super sharp focus on the subject and melts the background into butter (assuming your aperture is wide open, of course).
The 85mm lense is amazing for portraits because you are still far enough fro[...]
The final product - a DVD with color corrected images
The DVD that I give to the newlyweds after all the work is done is not as easy to get to as one might think. It is often a curvy path with packed with decisions at every step of the way. Here is a typical process I follow to get to the finished product below, of which the DVD burning part is the e[...]
How to shoot an event
Besides that clean and beautiful photos of people that I expect of myself when I shoot an event, I like to add a little bit of flair. This can come in many forms.
Sometimes it takes an angle. Shooting from the top either requires either equipment (which for me has proven to be too bulky) or[...]
Yay Photoshop
Today I took a Photoshop class at B&H. The guy spoke at 95 miles an hour, but somehow I managed to get bits of useful information from him, and add it to the Photoshop skills that I already knew. Here is the before and after picture of an adorable boy I photographed at a wedding a year ago. N[...]
