Shot A Few Tests With Camera. Not Happy With The Focus Overall, But Thought This Had A Neat Look. Deleted

10 Genius Portrait Photography Tips Gary Lun, craftsy.com

Taking your portraits from just OK to seriously awesome doesn't require any special skills or equipment. All you need are these 10 easy, expert tricks, which you can start using right away.

Meh... But still worth a read

Exclusive Details on the Light L16 Camera Stu Maschwitz, prolost.com

The Light L16 prototype spills its guts.This is a follow-up to last week's post on the Light L16 camera, a computational camera that claims unprecedented big-camera performance in a small-camera form. Light launched a pre-order campaign last week,…

Yes this. Unfortunately, this party is long gone.

1956 Republican Platform

"SELFIES" I had setup some T5 fluos with a white muslin backdrop, and needed to fire off some test shots for this. [sidenote: tons of issues with the color and light until after editing I realized one bank of the T5's was at a different color temperature than the others--which totally throws the whole thing off as far as color/exposure consistency… be sure to match up your kelvin and kill any stray ambient fluos in the room. For mine, even the gray cards were inconsistent on these tests].

I am loathe for self-portraits. I don't like shooting myself– I have the same insecurities just about everyone else does. I prefer shooting inanimate objects or others who are portrait or model material. But a setup… I can deal with that out of practicality. No one will see that.

My family is pretty much the same. I'll fire off some head shots of my wife or kids when they are around that look AMAZING , and they usually dictate that "these can NOT wind up on the net… or anywhere for that matter!" Funny, because they ARE very photogenic.

So of late, I always see these "self-portrait-a-day" projects, and I think they are utterly amazing. I rarely feel like I have the time for such things, but also  really don't like confronting myself. Even the "filter" of drawing myself offers me more comfort than photographing.

So earlier this year, I settled on the "selfie-a-month-or-so" project instead. Nothing like minimal commitment, huh? Some of the selfies I have taken with the old  iPhone 4. Others with the macintosh's built in  camera. Only time will tell if I have the time or guts to stick with this. These low-res versions of the file (72ppi for net at 5 x5) also seem to lose some punch, although that can't be pinned to the camera or the lights. I'll have to check the resampling setting in Photoshop to see why.

Crispy Eggplant Parmesan Subs // A Beautiful Mess

This looks amazing and delicious and exactly like something I could actually make!

Understanding Natural Light Part 1: Quality of Light Oded Wagenstein, digital-photography-school.com

Light has different qualities, and by understanding those differences and using them in your favor, you can become a better image maker. From my point of view, the best place to start improving your ability to work with light is by learning its mo…

On light natural

Brush Script Travel by Neil Secretario

wonderful, smile, clean motion graphics

Types of Matter

Envuelve igualito que yo…

OLD SLIK broke up. Got this today via UPS. Looking froward to using it… thing is built like a tank! Not the  BENRO, MANFROTTO, or GITZO I'd like, but very solid so far.