Adam & Lanna’s Wedding
Posted by will | Filed under Photography
More photos from Adam and Lanna Johnson’s wedding on willrodes.com or Flickr.
Hawaii photos
Posted by will | Filed under Locations, Photography
My favorite photos from our trip to Oahu. If the viewer just isn’t doing it for you go check them out on Flickr here.
Tony Morgan Photoshoot
Posted by will | Filed under Friends, Photography
Couple of shots for Tony Morgan, if you don’t know who he is or read his blog, you must live under a rock. Also he has a new book coming out Killing Cockroaches that I am sure you won’t want to miss.
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Timelapse with your DSLR
Posted by will | Filed under Links, Make, Photography
I am pretty excited about trying this tutorial. Up until I found this article, I had been hung up on not having an intervalometer, but now I know I can put my old TI-83 to good use.
Floral photos
Posted by will | Filed under Asides, Photography
One of three new shots on my photo site. Floral photography is not one of my usual genres, but it has definitely helped push me creatively.
Strobist overclocking
Posted by will | Filed under Links, Locations, Make, Nice, Photography
In case you missed it, John and I were in Charlotte last weekend for the Southern Short Course, while there we had a little fun overclocking some SB-800s go check out David’s post here.
Nuggets of wisdom from David Hobby
Posted by will | Filed under Asides, Nice, Photography, Quotes
John Folsom and I just got out of David Hobby’s first talk at the Southern Short Course. The following are interesting things that I thought worthwhile to pass on. Make sure you read the last one if you read none of the other ones.
- Wired and Esquire are the best visually inspiring guys magazines
- “You don’t want to be the 67 year old man who just learned how to light you want to be the kid with a new toy.” (Talking about continuing to be creative with your lighting)
- “My studio is wherever I am.”
- Rechargeable batteries recycle faster than alkaline ones and make sure you get the ‘precharged’ ones, they will hold a charge and not drain down while just sitting.
- Seven Basic Lighting Controls
- Position
- The difference between camera position and light position reveals shape and 3-dimensionality.
- Close light is very powerful, but has very shallow depth of field.
- The further away a light is, the more slowly the exposure value changes.
- Softness- Apparent light size
- A large light distributes light over a larger area so specular highlights are easier to control.
- Balance
- Restriction
- What makes a scene have amazing lighting? You have to think in those terms when your are creating light in order to make your photos interesting.
- I can socially engineer my designer by the choices I make with my lighting.
- Reflection/Refraction
- You can use found objects such as glass block or plants to create texture in the background.
- Color shifting
- You can make a portrait in front of a sunset pop by gelling with a fluorescent correction gel and setting the white balance to fluorescent. Add extra warmth to the person by throwing a 1/4 CTO gel in from of the fluorescent gel.
- Time based controls
- Position
- “You gotta have processing power in order to fix your dual drunk guy problem.” (In reference to shooting a drunk guy on a boat- get his friend to “hold” onto your light stand- it gets the drunk friend out of the way and gets the drunk subject to look at the light.)
- ” To a hammer everything looks like a nail.”
- “I won’t do it again, but don’t demotivate me anymore.”
- “If you’re willing to give somebody (ie. the designer that had the idea) else the credit, you can accomplish anything. That person will come back to you the next time they want to look good.”
- “If you want somebody to just push the button, why don’t you just get a monkey to come do it.”
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