Headshot Photography

Headshot photography calls for much more than just camera skills. It's about human communication and a knowledge of people in general. Watch for that as we comment on each of…

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Backlighting Photography

Backlighting photography with a detachable hotshoe speedlight flash is easy if you have the right camera and flash combination. This product collection required a white translucent storage bin from Walmart,…

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Ch 1 – Your Camera – Taking vs Making

In the earliest days of photography, before George Eastman introduced his first "KODAK" camera, taking a single picture was a messy, expensive process that was out of reach to most…

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Ch 2 – Exposure – The Three Equal Partners

The word "exposure" means light entering your camera through the lens and striking the sensor. If too little light enters, the picture is said to be UNDER- exposed, and dark…

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Ch 7 – ISO – The Mode Without a Dial

In order to understand ISO, we need to go back to the time before digital, when they had to put film in their cameras. They still make film cameras of…

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Ch 8 – Lenses – Focus on THIS!

We've looked at our cameras' lens APERTURE function already, and have learned that lens LENGTH is how degrees of magnification are expressed in the camera world. Let's look at that…

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Ch 9 – Flash – Learning to Love it!

Take a minute to add up all the money you've spent on photography equipment so far. Are you up to a thousand dollars yet? Two thousand? What if I told…

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