“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” — Maya Angelou
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” — Oscar Wilde
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” — Lao Tzu
“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.” — Rita Rudner
15 Things You Should Think About Every Time You Take a Photo
Jeff Cable is a professional photographer and all around nice guy. He gives workshops on behalf of B&H photo which are top notch. While this is aimed at a professional audience, everyone will learn a great deal from the presentation below.
The video is a little more than an hour in length, but Jeff will give you plenty to think about. He explains what he tries to find in each photograph he shoots. He readily admits that not all of his photos are winners (nobody shoots all winners), but he explains how to stack the deck in your favor by anticipating a variety of factors.
Watch the video below and learn how to see the shot before you press the shutter and how you can improve your image making.
Quoted from the YouTube page hosting the video (emphasis added):
Jeff Cable, who is one of our most popular teachers at B&H, will tell you the things you should think about before hitting that shutter button. It might seem that 15 things is a lot to process before every shot, but Jeff will break it down and make it simple, so that this will become intuitive for you.
For even more tips, hints, pointers and interesting photographs, visit the Jeff Cable Photography website especially the blog.
“Prospect is often better than possession.” — Thomas Fuller
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” — Stephen King
“Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.” — William Hale White
“I made my money the old fashioned way; I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” — Malcolm Forbes
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” — Buddha
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.” — Harold MacMillan
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” — Alfred Hitchcock
You might be asking yourself: “What is a Hoverboard?” A hover board is a personal transportation device that is like a smaller, lighter, less robust cousin of the Segway. Think of it as a motorized skateboard of sorts.
Below is a video that demonstrates the basic function of a hoverboard. Some of the points highlighted in the video include:
Once you have your hoverboard, and if you practice enough, perhaps you will be able to use it to create a YouTube viral video like the one below. Good luck with that!!!
Disclaimer – Any device that is motorized and/or offers transportation options has the potential to cause physical and financial harm. Take due precautions and considerations when using such a device. Parental supervision is strongly recommended.
“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.” — Francis Darwin
“It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.” — Warren Buffett
“If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere.” — Bob Marley
“Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.” — Agatha Christie
During a pickleball game, a ball is hit from team A deep into team B’s court. The ball is contacted by a player on team B in an effort to return it and then, after the ball is on its way back across the court, the team B player yells “Out” to indicate that the ball was out of bounds which would then give team B the point.
Can a player call a ball out after contacting it in an effort to return it? Yes/No?
Let us hear form you in the comments section. The answer will be provided next week!
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” — Aldous Huxley
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” — Thomas A. Edison
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” — Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Somehow the HDR, High Dynamic Range, style of photography has gotten a bad reputation in the eyes of some people. Let me explain why I like and use HDR when I can. Now I must admit, I am an HDR novice so I am not speaking from a point of expertise.
Were you ever in the presence of a beautiful scene and you grabbed your camera, adjusted the settings, created a very nice composition and then pressed the shutter release to capture the beauty of what you were witnessing? I think most of us have been there. Have you ever gotten home and looked at that beautiful scene to realize that it doesn’t look as wonderful in the picture as it did in reality? I think many of us can identify with that as well.
One of the reasons for this is that our eyes are capable of capturing a far larger dynamic range of color and detail than a camera is able to record and therefore some of the beauty is lost to the technology. That is where High Dynamic Range helps me. By taking several exposures; one at the correct exposure, one at two F-stops over and one at two F-stops under, and then combining them, we are able to help the camera “see” what we see once the images are combined. We add highlights in the dark elements of the pictures as well as in the brightest parts of the picture. That is what HDR is to me.
Just like everything else, there are those who like to carry things to the extreme and they may over-process a picture and it may look gaudy to us, but that is their vision and that is what makes photography a creative medium. If you don’t like it, that is your prerogative, but let’s not paint all of HDR with the same brush.
Now…let me refer you to Blake Rudis who is considered and HDR expert because of his body of work. He just released a video (also embedded below), Are you an HDR Photography Hypocrite?, explaining the difference between HDR and Tone Mapping and what the relationship is to one another. He addresses those among our peers who might be HDR Hypocrites. I encourage you to watch this short video to understand this point of view and to see how HDR can help capture a scene as it appeared to the photographer.
As the video points out, if you do any processing on your images after they are captured, you are probably using some aspect of HDR even if you don’t think so!
If you liked the video and/or you would like to learn more about HDR photography Blake has created a worthy introduction course that he offers free to subscribers. You can check this out at his website:
Everyday HDR Thanks Blake!
