First off, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who responded to my last post! There were some excellent questions! I'm excited that I can really help people. There were a few questions that I have already answered in these articles:
Metering:
I think this link will take you to a video of me talking about how to meter in a back light situation. If not this go to creating keepsakes.com and then video- picture perfect photography-metering.
Histograms:
Same link just go to histograms
Here is the written article-
There are also videos on soft focus and taking head shots.
Here are all the articles since May on the website, a lot of these will answer questions that were asked:
This answers a lot of movement blur questions. Shutter speeds-
There were a ton of questions on indoor lighting. Here is a very basic article on that, there will be more to come later.
How to take pictures in Harsh outdoor lighting, there were a lot of questions on that too!
I think that those articles will answer a lot of questions! I didn't realize I had written that much! Go to CK's website to see answers to more of your questions soon! I have an article every other week there so it's a great learning resource. Also if you are interested in photoshop Jessica has articles every other week opposite mine!
There are a few questions that I know I won't be answering anywhere else so here they are now:
"I'll tell you what my BIGGEST problem when taking photos is.... I am scared of people getting mad when I take pictures in public places,OR starring and watching, is that weird?!? I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but I get a little bit of stage fright, how do you get over that, do you worry about that?!??! When you want to take a great shot downtown or in an area where there is a lot of people, what do you do?"
This question was from Sarah and Paolo had a similar one! Hi guy's! Here is my theory on taking pictures of people in the street or in public places that I don't know. If I see someone that is fabulous and I love the moment I'll just take the picture. Then I ask if it's okay afterwards and take another even though I usually know I'm going to use the first one. Why not ask first? Because I find that as soon as you tell someone you are taking a picture of them they become stiff.
My professor in college says that it's always easier to ask forgiveness than permission and it's true. It really is. I NEVER use a photo without getting permission but I usually get the shot I want first. The worst they can say is no and then I erase the photo.
As for getting audiences in public places. Yep, happens a lot. Maybe it's my theater days but I'm not afraid of that. Let them watch. I just try to keep the model or subjects attention on me so they aren't stressed about it either.
If you are into street photography you should check out the satorialist, he is deep in the fashion world and has a blog where he post pictures of great fashion ideas on normal people in the streets. Love his photography. It's a great blog to visit:
I also got a lot of questions about how Tara does things. She is a great photographer and I admire her and her work. I could probably guess how she does a lot of her post processing but, that's just what it would be, a guess and I'm not the one who should be sharing her secrets so I'll leave that up to her. I did see that she just posted a link to "what's in her camera bag" so that might be a good place to go to learn about her process.
As far as teaching classes, I teach at CKU and I may have some big news to share about that and a few other ventures that will be happening in the next year soon. I'm super, SUPER excited about it!
Thank you again for your responses!