Sitting Still Life

Posted by Philip in Gallery, Photo Processing, Photo Technique

Is it HDR, fancy photography or Photoshop?  The answer is never that simple.  Especially if you look at the subject matter, can you imagine getting a young boy to sit long enough for just just one image?

An Incredible Compliment

Posted by Philip in Gallery, General

The other day I got an incredible compliment, but it was hidden in a matter of fact statement.  I went to an end of summer pool party for a bunch of youth.  Of course I took my camera because I enjoy photography and a pool party is a perfect opportunity to hone one’s skills in photographing in direct sunlight and high speed action.  But while I was there, I got the compliment, “I didn’t need to bring my camera, Philip is here.”  For someone to feel so incredibly at ease  with me photographing them and feel that they didn’t need to worry about photos for the event is what I consider to be an incredible compliment.

Please Critique – Mirror

Posted by Philip in Gallery

The last time I asked for critique, I asked for negative comments and that actually went pretty well.  But now, I’d love comments, good bad or indifferent.  This is an image I wanted to create.  I learned a couple of things from working on this image with Jessica.

1) Make sure the model has a clear picture of what you are going for, before you start photographing.  She was caught off guard when I needed to just take the photo of the chair.

2) Models have great ideas as well.  Generally I ask them before we start shooting if they have any ideas.  That’s a good tie to ask, but the best ideas come while you are working together.

3) Knowing exactly what you want and setting up the shot beforehand will make your post processing job extremely simple.  This took a couple of minutes in Lightroom and a few minutes in Photoshop.

And another thing) After you are done in photoshop bring it back into Lightroom for extra tweaks, especially vignetting.

This is no reflection on the model.

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