Some favorite photography sites…
I’ll add these to the blogroll list, but I’ve got some definite favorites in the photography world…
Zack Arias
Strobist
DPChallenge
Lighting Diagram Creator
Neil van Niekerk
Chase Jarvis
Joe McNally
Lighting Essentials
Resurrection…
Wow. It’s been a YEAR since I posted here. Almost to the day.
That’s pitiful.
However, the truth is that I’ve not been taking pictures, either. There are a lot of “reasons” to that, but the biggest one is that I simply lost all confidence in my ability to make photos that someone else enjoys.
I’ve been posting a lot over at my “normal” blog, at www.bernardshuford.com, but nothing about photography. I’m surprised to see that people still visit THIS blog, even though it hasn’t had a new post in a long time.
I think I’ll resurrect myself, talk about some photography, and make some photos.
Hard Drives, Rain, FedEx
Never have anything shipped FedEx unless you happen to live within 50 feet of the paved road. To say nothing of the fact that you will have to wait five to six days for it.
Our local delivery guy is apparently paranoid that our driveway is only fit for snakes and crawdads.
Interesting that the UPS truck traverses it regularly, but anyway.
Thus, my new hard drive for the Ubuntu computer spent a day out in the drizzling rain.
Praise God for light rain and plastic packaging.
So, a few days after ordering from geeks.com, my new 2.5″ drive (cheapie, rebuilt, but wonderfully better than what I had) was in the Thinkpad and being partitioned for Ubuntu.
Installation went well, the rattly noise went away, and hopefully the balky startups (the drive often had to be removed and reinstalled for the operating system to be found) are done with.
Loving me some Ubuntu, even though video / DVD codecs are a pain the neck. My advice – with Ubuntu, use mplayer, not Totem. Installation of medibuntu is also required. It’s a bit of a process, and I’m a bit of a geek. I can’t imagine a casual computer user being able to do this, but it’s tons better than it was a few years ago when I tried Phat Linux and Red Hat and all that.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today and tomorrow will provide a little adventure in food photography, since DPC has a speed challenge up for pics of the meal…
I’ll pop up a little bit about that later tonight, hopefully.
THANKS for reading!
Bounce Flash Experimental Headshots 1
An old post from my other blog, bernardshuford.com.
One thing I want to learn how to do as a
photographer is to make a decent “headshot portrait” without having to
lug a bunch of equipment around. I want to know how to do this
consistently and without ado.
There are other things I want to learn too, but this is one for now.
These photos were shot with on-camera flash, which was bounced off a
white wall to camera left. The subjects are kids, so they are close to
the ground, which means that the white ceiling was “high”. The wall
was about four feet away from both the subjects and the camera.
The camera is a Canon 300D and the flash is a Nikon SB-24, both in
full manual mode. There’s no “communication” between them, but they
work fine.
There are some slight differences, it appears, in the exact subject location relative to the wall.
Some upcoming posts…
Some things I hope to explore and report on soon:
- The basics of bounce flash
- Umbrellas with on-camera flash
- Diffusers for close-up / macro
- Gels
- Headshot in a corner
BOUNCEFLASH
Welcome to BOUNCEFLASH!
This site is a rebellion, but it is also an exploration and a documentary, intended for education.
