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Comment on Top 10 photos of 2012, selected by AP’s Director of Photography Santiago Lyon – Newser by Piracetam

Piracetam — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:20:56 +0000

The choice of these photos is meant only to represent the broader spectrum of human experiences captured in the other images. Every experience is, in some way, a valid one.

Comment on DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY #101: APERTURE Part 2 of 2 – GroundReport by ChanYu

ChanYu — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:45:11 +0000

Yeah, shallow depth of field is toltlay possible with studio lighting. One problem does exist though. If you want to keep your strobes (presumably with lightboxes) close enough to your subject so that you maintain big reflections of the lights in your subject eyes (eyelights), then you must keep your strobes/lightboxes close to your subject. I find that the lowest settings on my strobes are still too powerful when placed close to the subject to allow me to shoot at a wide aperture. The work around is a fabric called bobbinet, which is basically a fabric which is similar to stalking. It comes in wide sizes and can easily be clothespinned to your lightbox. What it does is this: it cuts the intesity of your light by half. Doubling it cuts your light by two stops. This makes you open up your aperture and shallows your depth of field. Other possibilities to try are plastic materials like visqueen which would cut your light but also diffuse it too. Of course, you can also paint in your eyelights with photoshop afterwards, but that would be cheating and karma doesn’t reward cheats (doesn’t give the same wrap as having your lights close either).

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