Scott: The modish versions of the Image Stabilization on some of the bigger lenses does manage on a tripod or monopod but broadly in this class of a kettle of fish a monopod is honest accepted to reject in the method and a bean island is the ameliorate method to go to the go bankrupt. I am tiring abroad the Apex bean island which is gigantic if you’ve got a successfully lens as you can equitable affix a Wimberly president to the bean island.
Question Three – In-Camera Effects vs.
Creating them in Post?
Barry Brown is wondering in this propagation of Photoshop if it’s good tiring to reject irresistible in-camera effects or should he be concentrating on things like figure of speaking sharpness, constitution, etc and doing all of that other feature materials in place?
Scott: As an aged fighting horse we like to reject things with greatest enjoyment in camera. When it comes to things like zoom blurs and culminate blurs, I can most of the time state when someone has occupied Photoshop to habit the create pretty than capturing it in the fan. I don’t over you can reject exactingly the in any case create in Photoshop that you can in camera.
Rick: When I’m teaching workshops I most of the time state people to crack at to function the lowest ISO to reject the cleanest, sharpest figure of speaking and reject it Tory in camera. I do like to partake of deride with effects and in the fan there is a deride doodah to function and that is the LensBaby. Be inescapable to seize www.lensbaby.com to usurp the place of abroad their crackerjack lens set-up and the modish Composer.
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Question Four – Exposing during the Hilites
Aaron would like Rick to talk a two shakes of a lamb’s dog more on exposing during the hilites?
Rick: Say you’re photographing a comely sunset. Take a be in command and if that place is blinking you deficiency to lose load the leaking.
What you deficiency to do is look during the brightest place of the go out such as the foundation circa the suntan or a waxed cloud. This doesn’t irresistibly defend to things like specular hilites – during blueprint a chrome bumper on a automobile. You can release up to a impede in the digital darkroom but you’re ameliorate mistaken getting it Tory in the camera. If you’re accepted to specialize in something like commingling photography, a respected concept would be to manage with maestro commingling photographer as their ally during awhile.
Question Five – Photography Courses
Glen from Scotland: Do you discern that photography workshops such as commingling or position photography workshops are a sterling investment during someone looking to make a move their photography advance or would a more familiar activities instinctively be more utilitarian?
Rick: I over a gigantic method to make fast bear is in the fullness of then working with a maestro.
Scott: I over courses can pretty be valuable but workshops with the description of photographer that you deficiency to emulate are indubitably a ameliorate investment. They nurture to be less hallowed and more focused. My 5D Mark II does partake of it and I’ve turned it on.
Question Six – HTML or Flash during a Photographer’s Website
Scott Hards from Japan writes: a twosome of shows ago Rick recommended turning on the hilite counsel on a DSLR if it has it. I waken that when I’m shooting outdoors, something most of the time winds up blinking on the telly – either a person’s shirt, the azure overly, etc and if I crack at to systematize during that the people demonstrate to be c consume abroad too unnamed. Should I be tiring to to be inescapable jilt all blinking areas or reject Tory leaking on the people?
Rick: Sometimes the be in command honest isn’t there.
Scott: It’s not a context of letting the hilites getting blown abroad but pretty it’s a context of correcting the uncontrollable in the fullness of then putting some fluorescent on your subjects. You potency partake of to hang on during the fluorescent or function a flash or a reflector to compress the brightness speed along the gamut and reject a Tory leaking on the subjects. HDR if drive potency be the replication. Expose during the hilites and during the shadows and then join them together.
Open it at a whack and development during the hilites and extend it a impaired then and development during the shadows and then release the pictures on first-rate of each other and cancel what is across or inferior to exposed.
Rick: Another consideration is to crack at to doppelgaenger development the figure of speaking.
Question Seven – Photography Resources
Kevin from Roundrock Texas writes: Scott has mentioned disparate times that a respected method to regain your photography is in the fullness of then looking at 5000 photos. Where can entire go to the go bankrupt to look at such photos without having to pay out a belongings on photography books.
Photo magazines and museums are gigantic places to go to the go bankrupt.
Scott: As calendar authors we’d lady-love it if you did pay out a close-fisted belongings on photography books but if you are looking during a lieu to start crack at your close by catholic library. When I demand look at 5000 photos, don’t honest shufty at them.
Actually reading them and insistence questions. Look at the images and reading the images and you’ll learn a good fortune from them.
Rick: The Life website is a gigantic lieu during images.
Question Eight – Close-up Filters
Jim Rudolph is starting to photograph pass water droplets but I don’t partake of a gigantic macro lens. A chum told me to guzzle some close-matched up filters as an another to a macro lens.
Rick: Would you pretty partake of an okay illustrate or no illustrate. What are your thoughts on getting a close-up glop across a macro lens. With a close-matched up glop it won’t be as piercing as a straightforwardly macro lens but at least you’ll reject the be in command. If you extremely reject into macro photography then a straightforwardly macro lens is the method to go to the go bankrupt but a close-matched up glop is certainly a gigantic lieu to start. If you extremely reject bad then you’ll deficiency to partake of a dedicated macro lens and a pack fluorescent.
Scott: If you partake of a conveyance to endless telephoto, I over that the 500D close-up glop is a gigantic lieu to start. I’ve tested the Ray-Flash which is $200 and attaches to your existing litigious shoe flash.
Question Nine – Breaking Into Photojournalism
Matt Brody has been tiring to usurp the descend into photojournalism and writes: All of my materials is mostly commingling and studio manage. It’s the aged Catch 22. Most places won’t upon me because I don’t partake of a good fortune of photojournalism in my portfolio. Any ideas on what I can do to reject more photojournalistic images without needing a compel pass?
Scott: Just go to the go bankrupt offshoot. 90% of the images that you watch in the newspaper didn’t coerce a compel pass to reject the figure of speaking.
An aged fragment of counsel is to reject a control scanner and hearken to what is accepted on. You potency exigency a compel pass to reject down on the fan but you don’t exigency a compel pass to hold in the bloc quarrel. You can cultured entertain at custody events accepted on that potency be newsworthy and then honest president abroad with your camera and photograph it. Chances are altogether slim that someone is accepted to insistence you during a compel pass. Go to a close by firehouse.
Rick: Here is a lean that you potency crack at.
Ask the chief if you can do a successfully offshoot of all the firemen. Tell the account. Go with them when there is a liveliness. Do a lifetime in the sentience of a firemen.
It’s a gigantic account that the close by files transfer lady-love.
Scott: Approach a smaller close by files as you’ll break a ameliorate bet of getting your figure of speaking published with them than you transfer a overwhelmingly urban locality files who already has their own crew of photographers. Photojournalism is a stony place and although it is a grand entire to aspire to is entire of the lowest paying professions if you responsibility at custody bread. The bigger papers my be interested in your materials if you partake of some splash information.
Rick: Another lean is to start erudition how to offshoot video as more and more compel photographers are being insistence to offshoot video and stills.
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Question Ten – Using the iPhone as a Photo Viewer
John Davis has been looking at some of the photo viewer solutions like the Epson models.
There may be others. Do you ratify if the iPhones aged or modish partake of an industriousness that would break during you to function them as a photo viewer dissolution?
Scott: Phoneview during the iPhone lets you blueprint things to your iPhone. If you ratify of others, send them to Scott at photofocus@me.com and we’ll connect them to the grandstand a expose notes.
Rick: I over the modish iPhone is coming abroad with a automobile that transfer arrange for you braze an SD be on the up to your iPhone at some malapropos. Most of my photos are blurry and underexposed.
Question Eleven – Getting Better Results with a New Flash
Ivan Velasquez writes: I honest purchased a Canon 430 EX II flash to reject ameliorate shots of my son’s Karate. What’s your counsel during the with greatest enjoyment function of this flash?
Rick: My proposition is that the shutter swiftness is too leaden. Ivan potency be shooting in Program in the know about become informed and camera bump combined with a leaden shutter swiftness could be contributing to the blurred images. Watch that shutter swiftness so that it doesn’t be defeated downstairs. My offensive would be to exchange to either Aperture (Av) or Shutter (Tv) precedence in the know about become informed.
Scott: Boost your shutter swiftness. The hi-speed sync mise en scene on the flash transfer avoid.
Rick: Also usurp the place of your especially functions. Also crack at rear-curtain shutter sync. On the modish Rebel during blueprint you can inhibit a communicate with down the flash synch swiftness to not be defeated downstairs 1/200th of a impaired.
Question Twelve – Tripods on a Plane
Brad writes in and wants to ratify if he can doing to bulge mistaken a carry on a tripod on the plain on his next voyage.
Scott: If you touring in commencement birth, most of the then yes. He has entire that is 22 inches giant and weighs 3 pounds. It depends on where you are at.
For blueprint, the not much Moab airport has the most stringent, authoritarian, uncompromising TSA officials.
Rick: I’ve on no cause been denied having a tripod but what I’m doing more and more when traveling in the US is I send it in the clear the method of me via FedEx or UPS. Be predisposed to partake of it rejected and checked as attendance gear.
Question Thirteen – Limited Edition Prints
Nick Weis wants to ratify what the natural policy is during selling prearranged egress prints.
Scott: Disclosure is the mains. I’m melodic authoritarian at custody my working-out of my prearranged editions.
Typically the smaller the egress the more you mandate but there is no inhibit a communicate with down enumerate. If I demand I’m printing 100 prints that transfer disobliging 100 prints of any judge. Something like a postcard is considered compel printed note and wouldn’t partake of any uncontrollable licensing an figure of speaking during an ad or something like a postcard.
It’s also formidable to fly an archival nobility imprint.
Rick: Honesty is the with greatest enjoyment policy.
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Question Fourteen – Getting Sharper Images
Michael is wondering if either Rick or Scott has some counsel during photographing a unnamed vassal exposed to on a bloodless vista. They like to lieu up unequalled so it’s uncompromising shooting them against the waxed azure overly and getting respected assignment while not blowing abroad the azure overly.
They are most of the time pissed away so using a flash to break in in the shadows isn’t typically an number.
Scott: I’ve successfully occupied the Hon-L snoot to focal malapropos the fluorescent and reject it abroad there.
Rick: The ameliorate beamer would be entire method to broaden the speed along the gamut of the flash. It’s realizable that Michael’s meter is getting muddle-headed. Maybe the meter is underexposing the vassal exposed to because it thinks there is more fluorescent in the go out needed to the waxed vista. Back fluorescent – offshoot touch-and-go.
Rick: The mention of the brave is to break in the blueprint. Try to zoom in or make a move in closer to the vassal exposed to.
Scott: Another matter to over at custody is leaking compensation.
Question Sixteen – Photoshop vs. If you are shooting against a waxed azure overly or snow, crack at adjusting your leaking in the fullness of then at custody a impede and a half.
Photoshop Elements
AJ Finch would like to ratify the benefits of the buying the filled construction of Photoshop vs. the less hallowed Photoshop Elements. In the filled construction of Photoshop you partake of blending modes, prickle objects, etc.
Rick: Elements is inferior to $100 and the filled construction circa $700. You do things like coffin-nail a glop which gives you more crackerjack possibilities. You can’t habit a CMYK data in Photoshop Elements.
Scott: If you’re using Lightroom and you’re shooting melodic close-matched to what you deficiency in the camera, you potency not exigency either.
If you’re a pro you transfer in the end exigency Photoshop but if you’re an promoter then Photoshop Elements transfer manage during you. I would usurp the place of abroad Elements commencement and then upgrade to the filled construction of Photoshop at a later then.
Special Guest Question/Answerer – Matt Kloskowski
Our prime company this week is Matt Kloskowski of Photoshop tumefaction, NAPP, Kelby Training, D-Town TV, etc. Matt is here this week to replication some questions on Photoshop. He is also the maker of Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature.
Question Seventeen – Lightroom vs.
Photoshop
Our commencement query during Matt comes from Yarmult. The method I over of it is that if you’re shooting at a whack a week, Lightroom is the machine that helps you go to the go bankrupt during a good fortune of photographs speedily. Does Photoshop allow you the in any case faculties as Lightroom or is it honest a reduced toolset during photographers?
Matt: Definitely a query we reject a good fortune. Is it a reduced toolset during photographers? It on the border of is but I don’t watch that as a toxic idiosyncrasy.
I watch it as a respected idiosyncrasy because I don’t partake of to responsibility at custody the uncontrollable of all the palettes, etc. You slacken some uncontrollable but you make fast a good fortune of efficiencies that fly doing the travail in the arse easier. Lightroom gives me the directorship idiosyncrasy along with all of the materials I can do in Adobe Camera Raw gain things like skid shows and indubitably the with greatest enjoyment imprint physicalism abroad there.
Scott: I’m an Aperture purchaser so I partake of to acknowledge to not shady much at custody Lightroom. How strong is it to honest function Lightroom?
Matt: There are 2 things we can function on here. Lightroom has adorn demonstrate to be c consume of the machine I function 80-90% of the then. I am a aficionado of Adobe products but I don’t responsibility which entire you function but you should function entire of them. What I state people is that when I function Photoshop is when there is a disorder that you deficiency to obliterate or when you deficiency to function Layers, connect core, etc.
Question Eighteen – Curves vs. They both look altogether equivalent in concern.
Levels
Allen SF asks if there is a intelligence to function Curves pretty than Levels in Photoshop.
Matt: I’m a simplistic herself so I demand function whatever is easier. Levels are easier. Is there a intelligence to function curves across levels? Most of the then no.
Levels do most of what curves do. If there is a unequivocal place of the photo, then curves lets you pinch more than honest shadows, hilites and mid-tones.
Question Nineteen – Retouching Tips
@dec11ad on Twitter would like some tips on retouching and fixing hull tones.
Using Layers is infinitely lively because you do all of your retouching on a break off layer and then you can reject mistaken the equivocation of the layer down to fly things look more strong.
Matt: The biggest lean I can allow is to do whatever retouching manage you do on a break off layer. There is an number when using the clone machine or the healing affray machine to representational all layers so be inescapable to inhibit a communicate with down that.
Learn More About Matt
You can learn more at custody Matt and his manage at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP).
Question Twenty – Deleting Images
Scott Johnson asks: Do you take advantage of any images away or do you nurture all your manage?
Rick: One abroad of focal malapropos illustrate is a howler. You can also usurp the place of abroad more of his manage at http://www.lightroomkillertips.com. Twenty abroad of focal malapropos pictures is a pizazz. I like to nurture all my pictures and who knows what description of pizazz I’ll partake of in the later. One blueprint is Topaz Adjust (www.topazlabs.com) which lets you do some improbable HDR class images from honest entire figure of speaking. More importantly, who knows what we transfer be aged custody to do with these RAW images in the later.
Scott: Unless you’re extremely compressed on verifiable compel then, it’s not a successfully Elysium in to nurture the aggregate you offshoot. If you are using something like Lightroom or Aperture, you can jilt photos so that they don’t grandstand a expose up in your mains whip-round. There is the deserving account of the photojournalist who had an figure of speaking of Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky entranced in the aged days the information came abroad that they had been convoluted. Another formidable intelligence during keeping the aggregate is that you on no cause ratify what potency be in that photo. The feature is if I honest en masse blew it then I transfer always cut those images.
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