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My job as your photographer is to do more than just put a face to the name. I bring experience, professionalism, confidence, and a relaxed persona that produces photographs that instill a sense of trust and confidence in a potential client or customer. When you don’t do that, you will fail to get everything you can out of a brochure, website, or press release. The picture is critical.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but you rarely hear about the reactions to a poor quality photograph. Professional photography when presenting yourself or company to the public is a necessity.
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Nikon D300 & SB-800 Speedlight Flash Diffusion Test
On camera flash photography has always challenged me. I learned photography, in West Germany during the early ‘70s, using natural light only, black and white film and developed my own prints. My first experience, in the early ‘80s, with a flash gun was a reunion of flight school classmates and our families. We paraded the kids through the living room, onesies, twosies, you know the drill, and I took whole family photos too. The garish, over exposed pictures with that damn hard edged shadow (like the top center picture) was embarrassing when the color prints arrived. Who needs a flash? Not a REAL photographer anyway; so, back to natural light for more than 2 decades.
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D300 Picture Control File Test
A test of the 4 included picture modes included with the D300 and 4 downloadable Picture Control Files; the 3 D2X modes and Ken Rockwell’s PCF.
JPEGs right out of the camera, just labeled and resized for here. Settings the same for all shots.
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/6.7
Focal Length: 85 mm
WB = Auto
To MY eyes on MY monitor, the D2Xmode1 comes closest to the colors on the actual painted wooden duck , Standard is close. Again, that conclusion is based on MY eyes on MY monitor.
Lighting with a SB-800 and SB-600.
cut and paste for 1412 by 1062 size.
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In praise of the mature model
There is something I love about a mature woman. Their sense of presence, their no bullshit approach to life in general and men in particular.
Diane was simply a joy to work with yesterday. A classy lady with ideas about classic poses. Her eyes shared a lifetime of glances, sultry come-ons and femaleness in just the couple of hours we worked together.
See the rest of the session with her daughter here.