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Category Archives: Techniques

Balloons and Background Lights

Aesthetic Design & Photography

Most of the time catalog photography is pretty straight forward. White background, light the product, click, you’re done. Occasionally though I get a product that throws me for a loop and requires some trial and error, and a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Shoots, Techniques | Tagged jewelry, lighting

Restoring Antique Tintype Photos

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Tintype photographs are the easiest type of antique photograph to identify. Despite what the name suggests, the substrate was usually a thin sheet of iron. The tintype process was patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith and as the photo below … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Techniques | Tagged photo restoration, scanning, tintype

Thinking Upside Down

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The last few weeks I’ve been shooting the latest jewelry collections for Baroni Designs. These are all product shots to be used in their catalog and on their web site. Like most catalog shots, these are all shot on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Techniques | Tagged Baroni, earrings, jewelry, product

Converting color images to black and white in Photoshop

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In a recent forum discussion, the question was asked what’s the best way to convert color images to black and white using Photoshop. As with almost any task in Photoshop, there are a number of ways to accomplish it and … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Techniques, Uncategorized | Tagged black and white, contrast, conversion, grayscale, Photoshop, saturation

Taking Professional Looking Self Portraits

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With the rise of social networking, digital cameras and camera phones, there has also been a huge increase in the number of self portraits that people take. Unfortunately, photos from arms length are about the most unflattering way to take … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Shoots, Techniques | Tagged lighting, self portrait, strobe, studio

Painting with Light

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Over ten years ago I first came across the technique of painting with light when one of my web design clients, Scott Lewis, used it for some of the photos featured on his web site. Light painting is done using … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Techniques

2009/09 – Pirating Under a Full Moon

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Because this month’s picture was created, rather than just photographed, I thought it would be fun to show you how it came together. I’ve done several pirate photoshoots both in the studio and on location, but this time I wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Picture of the Month, Techniques | Tagged model, Photoshop, pirate

Pneumatocyst

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Last weekend while hiking to Punta Gorda I came across a lot of kelp that had washed up on the beach. Some fresh, and some that had obviously dried in the sun for awhile. Kelp has gas filled floats, called … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Techniques | Tagged still life

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