cheri and i put out 3 new bird feeders on monday and boy to the birds love them! cheri said we even had a black and silver woodpecker around earlier today. it was getting kinda dark (around 8:30 – 9) so I was using both the sb-600 and sb-900 on my new paul c. buff light stands to provide light. they didn’t seem to shy away from the light, although,...
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think of ISO as how sensitive your skin is to the sun. take either of my sisters growing up (or me for that matter), our skin was very sensitive to the sun and would burn very easily. on the other hand you have some people who can lay in the sun for hours and not get burned. so, in this analogy our skin is the sensor and we have the ability to change how...
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here’s another picture of summit lake, alaska at 3am. lots of cairns out there to play with. i didn’t use the nd grad filter on the first shot but thought the foreground needed some brightening up. so, the second shot is with the nd grad.
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i’ll be the first to admit that my flash technique needs some work. to that end, i’ve got two flashes or, more accurately speedlights. when i first got into wedding photography ducky bought me a sb-600. that’s the flash i’ve used for the last 3 years for nearly everything. just recently, however, i bought a sb-900 which is pretty...
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now, my wife won’t like this post because she doesn’t like the effect that this makes but if you have a flowing stream and a tripod (hand held just won’t cut it) you can take longer (1+ second) exposures to get a nice blurred/misty effect. also if you own a non-graduated neutral density filter you can also use that to lengthen your shutter speed...
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while still at summit lake, alaska i wanted to play with some longer exposures. the first image below was only 1.3 seconds in length. notice how you can see the ripples and definition of the surface of the water. this second image had a shutter speed of 30 seconds. notice how the definition on the surface of the water disappears and begins looking like...
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