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How You Can Make Paint Dance?
One of my favorite photos is this image, a capture of a few drops of paint. While a few drops of paint may not sound like they would be an interesting subject, but when you apply a little bit of noise to the mix things can start to get pretty interesting rather quickly. This started…
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ISO and Creativity
OK, well maybe ISO does not have nearly the impact on your creativity as the other exposure settings, Aperture and Shutter Speed. But it does have an impact, however limited, so it should be discussed.
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Shutter Speed and Creativity
Often times when we think of creativity and photography, the cameras shutter speed is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe it should. To me, photography is all about capturing a moment in time, about grabbing onto a feeling and recording it forever. Many of the moments that we wish to record…
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Aperture and Creativity
In our last discussion we talked about the physical settings (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) that went into creating our one ideal exposure for a given scene. Hopefully you did the exercises and are now comfortable with changing your cameras settings, and have wrapped your mind around the relationship that exists between the 3 settings.…
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Exposure Explained
Recently a friend asked me why anyone would want to use a camera in Manual mode, when the camera takes great pictures in Automatic mode? While I could not disagree that the camera can take a great picture in Automatic mode, I answered that in manual mode the camera was taking the picture that I…