Photoshoot and Beyond
Canon has announced 7 new online classes priced between $19.99 and $59.99 are available on their online learning page. This marks a departure from Canon’s free Digital Learning Center or DLC. Offerings Here’s a list of the first classes in the new online learning area of Canon. Understanding EOS Camera Operations Photo 101: How to…
Science fiction movies are all that right now… Star Wars, Star Trek, the Marvel universe and DC comics all have at least one exotic character. I thought it might be fun to create one here on the Photofocus blog. Best thing is, you can use any portrait you’ve made where the subject is facing the…
Category: Fashion Photographer: Shelby Deep “Untitled” Photofocus photographer of the day, Shelby Deep, explores the physicality of a fashion pose. Her model in “Untitled” is looking up, eyes closed revealing a pensive mood. The feathers over her shoulders form part of the collar of the sleeveless ruffled top. The earth tone background compliments the color…
Category: Fashion Photograph: “Papercut Composite” by Sandeep Khade Perfect makeup combines with perfect styling and compositing technique by Sandeep Khade, today’s Photofocus Photographer of the Day. The model’s flawless skin is testimony to the skill of the makeup artist. Her dress, apparently made of folded paper, mimics her natural shape. The styling continues in her…
Photographers buy hard drives in external enclosures to keep up with the data they create with digital cameras and post-production software. When one fills up, another drive along with an enclosure is purchased. Before too long, there are several individual drives on the desk, each in its own enclosure. There has to be a more…
Category: Fashion Photographer: Steve Ellis “Golden Beauty” Photofocus photographer of the day, Steve Ellis, expresses the fashion of hair and makeup. Gold predominates this image from the color of the model’s hair, to the tone of her skin then into the flecks of gold in her eyebrows, under her eye and on her lips. His…
Join me and Drobo IVP for Products Mark Fuccio this Thursday, May 26th at 3:00pm EDT, noon PDT. I’ll share how I manage over 750 thousand photographs in Lightroom, back them up and why I chose Drobo. This is not a sales webinar! As a matter of fact, Mark and I will give away a…
Our eyes have a fixed refresh rate of about 1/30th of a second. Modern cameras today have shutter speeds that range from 30 seconds to 1/8000th of a second. The shutter is the third component of a photographic exposure. It controls the amount of time the sensor receives light. Creatively, the shutter can freeze a…
A previous post on Photography’s Basics: Shutter Speed, I promised a post on using long shutter speeds to make abstractions. When the world blurs together on a memory card or film magic happens. Thing we see in real life are reimagined when the shutter is open for a long time. Light streaks. Motion blurs. Water…
A previous post on Photography’s Basics: Shutter Speed, I promised a post on using long shutter speeds to make abstractions. When the world blurs together on a memory card or film magic happens. Thing we see in real life are reimagined when the shutter is open for a long time. Light streaks. Motion blurs. Water…