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This picture is nice, but we’ve got a little problem. It’s a tad dark. Not severely underexposed, but the curtains are thoroughly blacked out and the subjects are a little underexposed – maybe one to two stops. How do we fix it? The first tool we’ll look at is the…
It happens to the best of us. You snap a bunch of pictures, you take them home and put them on your computer, and you notice that they’re all a tad… dark. Doh! Now many people would just upload them to Facebook or Flickr anyway. That’s just the way it…
Ever look at the histogram in Lightroom and wonder what those pointy-triangle things are? Yeah, me too. If you don’t know what the histogram is, it’s that graph looking thing in the righthand panel in Lightroom. That’s a topic for a whole nother day. But those triangles in the top…
It happens to the best of us. We get blemishes on our skin – zits, cuts, scrapes, scars, what have you. Some of these things you may want to leave in a picture. Someone might not want a permanent mole or beauty mark to disappear. But, I don’t know that…
Previously, I wrote about the . To briefly recap, a “stop” is a relative term describing how well-lit and well-exposed the image is. Adjusting the camera settings to increase the light by “one stop” will effectively double the amount of light in the picture (either by opening the aperture, raising…
From what I can tell? No. Yesterday, I read an article on DPS about online backups, and one of the commenters recommended Crashplan over Mozy. Never used Crashplan, so I can’t comment. Reader said he had a horrible experience with Mozy, which is certainly possible, so I won’t comment. But…
Yesterday, I wrote about the lighting set up I used at a fashion shoot I did at Branch Brook park. I included an example of a picture where the key light didn’t fire; the flash hadn’t recycled yet. What I didn’t do was show you the original image. Here it…
One of the key elements of lighting is how hard or soft your light is. Hard light is pointed, directional, and creates harsh shadows – like a spotlight. Soft light seems to come from no where and creates gradual (or no) shadows – like sunlight on a cloudy day. Often…
Between advising the yearbook at school, working with Olinda on her photography business, and taking pictures of my own, I’ve got a lot of pictures. Keeping them organized and backed up is critical, because I wouldn’t want to lose any of that data. I’ve been toying around with different back-up…
I woke up this morning, sat down at the computer, and was met with a pleasant surprise. Mozy had finally finished its initial backup. Phew. 95,897 files and 287gb later. That wasn’t a lot… It also didn’t take too incredibly long. I started the initial backup around midnight on July…
