A successful photographer will always try to change and improve. There are however many ways to do this and some are very expensive especially when you are investing in props, however sometimes the solutions can be very simple and best of all very cheap. Today some information on cheap solutions to create more mood and swing to your shoots.
Photography is an art form.
To create art we need….. inspiration, vision etc.
When you start out as a photographer you will all know the problem.
You find a model that is willing to pose for you but she shows up with the standard jeans and shirts that she wears in every day life….. in the end you can make some images but it’s not what you really want is it ? In the coming days/weeks I will add posts with this topic with stories, tips etc.
This weekend we had a nice discussion during one of the workshops about being creative and using all the tools like light meters and color checkers.
Somehow a lot of people now a days are only trusting their instant polaroid on the back on the camera, we have grown to know as the LCD display. This LCD display indeed shows you an image, and a histogram and of course shows you were the image clips in the blacks and whites, so what more would one need ? Well as mentioned some times before on this blog the histogram is highly inaccurate because it’s based on the JPEG tumbnail that is part of each RAW, but it’s also based on the settings like contrast and brightness which have no influence of the RAW files. Same goes for the color temperature. As explained in a previous blog post the use of the light meter is of vital importance to get the “diffused value” correct, or in more simple terms, make sure the “brightness/skin tone” of your model to be correct time after time and under different situations.
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