Fancy yourself a bit of a … modder?
You're not the only one. In fact, of the ~10,000 people who arrive at Strobist via a Google search on a given day, many of them are looking for a specific DIY solution.
Today, the top ten searched for DIY projects on Strobist—and how practical it is to attempt each of them… Read more »
After over 2,000 responses (thank you!) the results from the first question are in:
Readership is ~89% male, 11% female. Sigh.
Today’s question is about your relationship to your photography. Is is all about love or money?
Thanks again for your help. (You will need to have Google Plus activated to participate.)
Summer Survey Question #2: Love or Money?
I have posted a couple of the headshots from this job, but the main purpose of the shoot was to photograph Antonio in action as a dancer for the HCAC.
The combination shoot is appropriate, IMO, as what I have learned over the past few years shooting static portraits has really started to inform my more kinetic photos, too. Read more »
Lots of good discussion in the comments and on Twitter about the Antonio Beverly shoot from earlier this week.
In particular, three questions involving light, motion blur and post processing: Read more »
Pretty essential question, right? Nothing you do with lighting, shutter speed, lens choice, etc., will nave nearly so much impact on your photos as deciding what to shoot.
Right out of college I landed in the excellent Patuxent Publishing Co. photo department, which was run by a guy named Tenney Mason. One of his many mandates was to ensure each of us maintained an idea list, which was a 50,000-foot view of what we wanted to explore with our camera.
Nearly 25 years later, I am still doing it. Here is my current list as a window into how I develop subjects. I hope it encourages you to start and develop your own. Read more »
BronImaging has introduced a $ 489.00 bracket that will allow you to mount your Profoto head on a $ 2,317.00 Para 88 reflector.
Meanwhile, on a remote planet all the way back into your price range, a $ 10 Home Depot lamp globe will mount directly onto your Einstein and/or AlienBees flash, right out of the box…
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Well we had a fantastic show last week interviewing the one and only Chrysta Rae who so many of you know and love on Google+. We talked with Chrysta about her own work as well as her work as one of the great Google+ curators with her wildly popular Scavenger Hunt.
Not only has Chrysta broken G+ is some truly epic ways, she has introduced us to so many great photographers each month with her hunt.
Joining Lotus Carroll and myself for this show were panelists Keith Barrett, Mandy Sloan, Alan Shapiro, Daniel Milnor and Lynne Goodwin.
In this episode we revisit the The Google+ One Year Anniversary Photowalk and talk about the walks that we went on, including mine in Denver, CO and Lotus’ in Austin, The July Scavenger Hunt, Trey Ratcliff’s Top 5 Tips for photographing people, Colby Brown’s Heart of a Sunflower and Ron Clifford’s post about photographing fireworks.
Thanks as always to our wonderful show sponsors SmugMug, Blurb Books, Drobo and Adorama. Be sure to check these awesome companies out at http://smugmug.com http://blurb.com http://drobo.com and http://adorama.com
Join us this Wednesday night when our special guest for Episode 30 will be Adobe’s Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty. Tom’s going to talk about what’s new in Lightroom and hopefully what may be in store for the future from the web’s most popular image processing software company.
Download 10 free Photoshop plug-ins and filters which are compatible with Photoshop CS5. These amateur photographers’ best friends will help you to apply the professional touch to your images like never before.
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Lets say words of gratitude to those people who actively protested against SOPA and PIPA. There are several photos of SOPA and PIPA protests on the streets of NYC. Probably you’ll find there somebody you know.
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Photo Talk Plus, Episode 30!!!! Wow, we made it to 30 episodes! We had a GREAT show last night on Photo Talk Plus with the one and only Brian Matiash from onOne Software. Brian talked about his role with onOne and we had a great time going through some of his impressive photos on the show as well.
Joining Lotus Carroll and myself were panelists Keith Barrett, Google’s Events Product Manager Zach Yeskel, Karen Hutton, Kerry Murphy and Jan Kabili.
Catherine Hall made a guest appearance as well to talk about her new video show coming out Photography Unfiltered. We also had a few extras pop in including the ever present Billy Wilson and his cat Tibby as well as Brian Matiash‘s leading lady Nicole S. Young.
Brian Matiash has a wonderful processing style and I especially enjoyed going through some of his urbex photos and learning more about how and where he made them.
Last night’s stories included, the new G+ iPad app, +Catherine Hall’s new show, changes made to the “Get Started” G+ list for photographers, PHOTIGY’s HDR Processing contest, the new incredibly expensive Cintiq 24 inch HD Touch tablet, and Issue #2 of Exposed – G+ Photography Journal.
Lotus showed off her awesome new Canon 100mm f/2.8 L series lens (which I also own and LOVE too and shot like crazy shooting macros at the Denver botanical garden) and which you should totally go and buy from Adorama right now here!!!
As always, thank you to everyone who watched live and participated in the chat room as well as our amazing show sponsors who we love dearly, Adorama, Blurb Books, Drobo, and SmugMug.
Be sure to check them out at http://adorama.com http://blurb.com http://drobo.com and http://smugmug.com
Join us next week when we interview the incredible Daniel Milnor!!!
