What's next

So, I was kinda waiting for you to call me when you go a second so we could go over your photos.

I think you're at a point where we can change how we critique your shots.

Instead of me just telling you whats wrong with them, let talk about what you were thinking when you took the shot.

Call me any time.

Matt

Overload

Well tutor there you have it! Sorry for the overload. All of the images are SOOC...I would like to get the best shot SOOC obviously and then little tweaks in PS instead of trying to "save" the picture by using PS. Am I improving...is this worth me continuing...BE HONEST!! I know I have a long way but I love it...LOVE IT but I also want to be realistic and I also want to be amazing at some point so if you don't see it...TELL ME!!! Thanks again for taking the time, it means a lot!

Random

Little lady

a fav

another fav

Boys

I know you won't love the faces but I was trying to capture personality and who they are everyday :)

lil man

newborn

Newborns are TOUGH!! they might not be my thing

maternity

these are all SOOC she is a little dark in my amazing light...i hate to have to fix it but do you think its fixable? I have a ton more of her in the water...thought it was a cool idea...but I could be retarded as well.

Jace

Sorry a little over board on Jace...felt like I had an "on" session with him but I'm already pickin it apart...just want to see if you pick at the same things or if I'm still missing a ton

hospital

blessing

Using a bounce

Some times you need an assistant, and on a paid shoot, having someone you know help with everything from grabbing gear to making kids laugh is invaluable and certainly worth 50-150 bucks depending on the budget.

Anyways, they are best utilized holding a bounce.

On this shoot (along time ago) I knew I was shooting in direct sunlight and shooting a larger group, so I knew id need to use a large bounce.

To properly expose this shot I wanted the background to be even with the fill and the sunlight to work as a highlight. To achieve this id position the bounce close enough to the subject opposite the direction of the sun or "Key" to fill "even" with the BG.

ABM

ABM

this one is over sharpened...yuck! I actually don't think I dig sharpening all that much.

All by myself

I did this one ALL BY MYSELF...I know there is a tweaky thing under his eye but in order to fix it I would have to start all over and I was about to lose it so...there you go! :)

Engagements/blah?

they wanted traditional, anything I should have done to make this picture even better? Still be traditional but with a little spice?

Timing

Somehow I was confused and thought for some reason I was doing expression and not timing until I just read the assignment again...oh well. Dan said he already showed you some of these and he tweaked them in PS because I still suckadoo!

The three basic photographic controls

I decided to create one of these for everyone that picks up photography. So here is your free digital copy.

Assignments

Ok, so our first lesson was "Books" this was taking a subject or object and placing it or manipulating it one way or another to create a scene. This type of photography is called "table top"or "product" or even "Macro" photography. There are lots of different types of photography, sports, portrait, landscape (which we will come back to) table top, etc. Some people call wedding a type of photography but I wouldn't go that far.

Anyways each type of photography utilizes the same 3 variables (F-stop/shutter speed/and ISO) but each type uses different combinations of the 3 to accomplish the desired result.

Sports = stopping action (fast shutter speed)

Portrait = pulling your eyes and drawing attn to your subject (wide open 1.4 /2.8 /3.5)

Land scape = making everything in the scene razor sharp, allowing your eyes to wander and discover (high number f-stops like f11/f16/f22)

Macro = etc....

So I think we should alternate. One lesson on a type or photography then one lesson on things like composition, light and shadow, creating moods, capturing expressions, timing and so on.

Since we did a type (table top) then "center compositions", then another type (land scape) lets move onto something like timing.

Basically a good photographer has great timing. I think it comes from the days when you only had 36 shots, film was expensive and it was a pain in the butt just to get it processed, oh and that was a pretty penny as well. Back in the day you made it count because you had to.

Capturing an expression inst easy, that is unless you know a few "Hams" that will do what you ask them to. Capturing a snowboarder at the highest height or at the most dramatic part of their trick isn't easy. Getting a perfect lightning bolt as it hits the earth isn't easy. However if you know how to use what you've got and you can do it quickly, you will start find that you are using less hard drive space and more and more of your photos are exactly what you set out to capture.

Landscape

You were dead on when you wished me luck. This has been a hard one because I look at all the images and nothing pops, nothing makes it rock or even interesting. Here is one image I could possible stand behind. I will keep working on it to hopefully get you 3 more worth looking at.

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