Some Digital Photography Lighting Tips

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

For most shooting situations you are going to want to bounce your light off of something before it hits the person you want to photograph. I use white drop cloths, the backs of posters, really anything that is white and easy to position. This will make erotic or boudoir photography look amazing.

Shine, Shine, Shine

Right before the sun goes down it turns an amazing orange and becomes soft and beautiful. This is when you want to photograph anything. It is the golden hour and no matter how horrible of a photographer you are, things will look amazing.

How To Choose Your Next Camera

My primary camera right now is a wonderful Pentax *istDS. I have no complaints about it at this point, except that I need something with better resolution and less noise.

I am looking at buying a Cannon 5D for various reasons. The most important are that it has a collection of high quality lenses, its full frame sensor and the value pricing of the camera.

But the question is how do you decide what your next camera will have?

1. I don’t really care about megapixels. Bigger is sort of better but I want more quality pixels. I want less noise

2. I care about format. I want my camera to fit well in my hands and I don’t want it to be intrusive. A camera that fits in my pocket would be great.

3. Zooms are Great but nice glass is better. I think zoom lenses are fun but they aren’t always practical and if the quality of the lens is bad then your images won’t really snap.

4. Maybe I’m a lush but I don’t want to shake. I think a nice zoom lens combined with some sort of image stabilization is a wonderful thing and if you are going to get a big zoom, get image stabilization too. It will be well worth it.

I can’t over emphasize the importance of noting aperture when shooting outside, specifically landscapes. The higher the aperture setting, the more depth of field. The more depth of field the more beautiful things appear. With a digicam you always have amazing depth of field because of how small the camera sensor is but if you can select your aperture you should set it as high as possible.

I recently did a post that was popular in google called Red Heads.

I was born a red head but I’m not one now. I had beautiful orange curls that later straightened and turned brown but my skin never lost its ability to burn and peal on rainy days.

A lot of boys, especially dark skinned ones, seem to really like the fact that my hair turns gold in the sun.

I sort of like that.