photolando

Dodging and burning in areas of a photo, even a news photo is NOT really editing. It's still processing. How could it be? Was the image even processed or printed right to begin with? What if a ...

There is "distortion" and then there  is "DISTORTION". Most times, you only see distortion if you know very well that you are too close.  Yeah, shooting a head and shoulders portrait with a 35mm ...

As a portrait and headshot photographer, I am always on l location.  So I am stuck with whatever is given to me.  Size of space is really dependent on what you are trying to shoot. Headshots?  Not ...

For what it's worth X Photographer Michael Dambock did a little comparison between the T3 and T2. Granted they are just jpegs (no raw updates yet) but they were shot with the same lens and same ...

I shoot for a very busy studio that covers corporate events.  We shoot jpegs 100% of the time and edit them if need be.  Been doing it since the switch to digital. So yes, editing your jpeg, at ...

It can. And usually does.  Remember, that reflection, otherwise known as a specular highlight, is just a mirrored image of that soft box.  Like I said, move it closer.  Does it cover the length of ...

Wow. Dean Collins would be so proud. Someone basically took two P22 Lightform panels (they were 78” x 42”) and one P15 (42” x 42”) Lightform panel and snapped them altogether. Something Dean and...

Everybody shoots their way.  All we are doing is capturing a scene we like or need to get.  Thats it.  HOW we get it really is not that important. Some pros like manual.  Some aperture priority. ...

very simple.  For one, move the soft box in a lot closer.  I mean a lot closer.  Like just out of frame closer.  And also have it perpendicular to the bottle at one side. On it’s side laying right ...

Melted the housing threads?  Aren’t those made of metal?  PLease post pics becuase I have no idea what you are talking about. The Speedotron Black Line I used in the past had 250 watt modeling ...

“Half the bottle” which way?  Half way down or half way across? Do you have a modeling light?  If so, just move the light around until you like it. But yeah, usually there is a long specular ...

These are two entirely different ways OF metering.  Not really a choice as to what is better.  A “reflective” IN CAMERA meter doesn’t help me at all in the studio metering studio strobes. Auto ...

‘Recognized qualification?”  The only ones I know of are from PPA but even those “degrees”; Certified, Master, Craftsman don’t really carry  much weight.  As far as getting work is concerended. ...

And retouching, at least with portrait work, was done by an expert retoucher who retouched the neg and the print.  Now THAT was a skill!!  And again why very few photographers actually did that.

I'll also add he left his negatives to I believe Arizona State and wanted others to take his negatives and see what kind of prints THEY would get out of it. I heard him say in many lectures that ...

I went a very good school for photogrpahy.  One of the best at the time.  May still be.  Not sure.  But I learned how to be a “photographer”.  NOT a retouched.  At the time, we only had film.  And ...

Some people need to get their info right before making videos. A flash goes off when the shutter is fully open.  Not as it starts opening or just about closed. When using real slow shutter speeds ...

IBIS is more important to videographers than photographers today.  Since so many video guys use cameras really "designed" for stills, it really does help when filming since THEY move a lot during ...

Doesn't even have to be that.  Probably one shot.  Flash with long exposure, move the camera during the shot.  As long as the subject is in total darkness, or close to it, she will not be effected.

How in the world did you come to that assessment?    Not even close to what the OP, and the entire thread is discussing.