Posts Tagged ‘ strobist ’

The Chapel Hill News published this article, Putter in hand, angling for an A, on Sunday with two of my photos. The event was the annual Golf-O-Rama put on by the honors geometry classes at Chapel Hill High School to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. Weeks before the first putt, students write...
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Last Friday, I did a last minute shoot for the paper. It ended up being cut from Sunday’s paper and did not make it into today’s, so I suspect it has past its sell-by date. It was a challenging shoot (aren’t they all?), so I will write it up here.  I did some lighting...
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I finally did it. Sick and tired of the unreliable flash triggers I bought on eBay, unable to fork over the cash for some Pocket Wizards, I went all DIY-strobist on the triggers. I did a shoot tonight for the paper. I got out my flash to try to fill the shadows from the...
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Here are the outtakes from the real estate assignment that I detailed in Mebane is Calling earlier. It was a rainy day! This portrait is my favorite shot from the day. I wish it had made the paper, but it does not show the subdivision at its best and the paper prefers more candid...
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A couple of Sundays ago, I had a spread in the Real Estate section of the local Chapel Hill News. As usual I had two days notice. The forecast was for rain, rain and more rain. I have never done any real estate photos before, so was not even sure how to light the...
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The scoop we use for our morning coffee is coffee colored. This makes it hard for me to see how much coffee is in the scoop. Instinctively, I tilt the scoop so that the nearest light falls across it rather than directly on it. The cross light brings out the texture of the grounds,...
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As I mentioned earlier, I had some Sportsplex Photos in the News. For the assignment, I submitted four more photos that did not make the cut. I liked this first shot a olt. It is a bit too artsy and dark, I think, for the paper. I had my light on a stand to...
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The Gadgetwise Blog @ NYTimes has a useful suggestion for DSLR owners on how to Take Better Photos With a Fast Prime Lens.  Prime lenses, which are lenses that do not zoom, can take better photos as they have fewer mechanical parts. Zooming in requires that you get closer to your subject and zooming...
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A three-image spread on the front page of the Sports section! Center hosts grand (re)opening Saturday RANDY YOUNG – Recreation:Renovations and expansion at Triangle SportsPlex highlight new features for fitness Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story The assignment was to get a spread of a local sports center with its pools,...
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A year ago, a photo editor at the Chapel Hill News suggested I check out the Strobist blog. I want home that day and have been hooked since. David Hobby, the longtime newspaper photographer, has caused quite a stir in photographic circles with his guide to and thoughts on lighting. From What is Strobist?:...
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I was in an odd humor this afternoon. I took my camera out, which I have not done in a while, to try and capture the mood, so to speak. As usual, it did not work out as planned. My tripod and light stand were in the parking lot at my wife’s work in...
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As I mentioned at the end of last week, I spent much of Saturday Pinning Down Some Wrestiling Images. After spending eight hours navigating brackets, changing batteries, squatting at mat edges and dealing with a hot, crowded gym, I came home with well over two hundred photos. Three were submitted to the photo editors...
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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I shot a local high school women’s basketball game last night. The assignment, for the Chapel Hill News, was to shoot the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High on 2/6/09. ECH won easily, taking them one step closer to the league championship....
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Great for Beginners to Flash Photography As versatile as the SB-600 flash is, Nikon’s SB-400 is a much less intimidating start to flash photography for the beginner. Using the 400 opens your eyes to the possibilities of bouncing and diffusing the flash. When used in the manual or priority modes on the D40 (and...
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Following up on my Strobist-for-the-visually-impaired posts, Didacylos’ Strobe and the first update, I have received some great suggestions. The first suggestion is about using a portable DVD player as a tethered LCD. David Tejada discusses Proofing with portable DVD on his blog. This neatly finds the middle ground between the camera’s tiny screen and...
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