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Making it as a Pro: Lens Review: Opteka 500mm f/8 Mirror Lens

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Monday, June 18, 2012. Lens Review: Opteka 500mm f/8 Mirror Lens. What kind of lens can you get for $95? How about a 500mm f/8 manual focus lens, that's compact, lightweight, and produces darn good images? If that sounds too good to be true, then read on - it's not. A couple of weeks ago we had a rare opportunity to photograph a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun (see my original post here. There's one big downside to this des...

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Making it as a Pro: How to Quickly Calculate Outdoor Flash/Fill Exposures

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Monday, September 26, 2011. How to Quickly Calculate Outdoor Flash/Fill Exposures. I recently worked with a couple of younger, temporary assistants on some outdoor photo shoots. They both enjoyed it and learned a lot, and both asked the same question: "How do you figure out how to balance flash and outdoor light so quickly? Since this topic seems to be mysterious to a fair number of photographers, I thought it would be a good topic for an article.

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Making it as a Pro: Making it as a Pro: Articles by Category

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Sunday, April 8, 2012. Making it as a Pro: Articles by Category. Here is a list of links to articles on the Making it as a Pro blog by category; the list will be kept updated as new posts are added, so there's always an easy way to find content by category. A link to this page is on the sidebar of each post and on the home page. Outdoor Lighting Techniques 1: Sunset. Outdoor Lighting Techniques 2: The Beach. Outdoor Lighting Techniques 1: Sunset.

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Making it as a Pro: Generations...

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. One of the best things about being a photographer in a fairly small town is that you get to develop real personal relationships with your clients. And to be a part of their family as their lives go on. This is a story about one local family I've had the pleasure to know and photograph. It was a beautiful wedding on the beach in Coronado, CA - and we got some great pictures of the happy couple. In between Kristen and Dw...

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Making it as a Pro: Make Your Own Digital Drape Backgrounds

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Friday, July 27, 2012. Make Your Own Digital Drape Backgrounds. A while back I wrote a post on using gray backgrounds while shooting to make digital background replacement quicker and easier than "green screen" chroma-keying ( Digital Backgrounds? Ditch the Green and Go Gray! Note that using a harder-edged brush to make the initial "stripe" image, and a lower radius in the Shape Blur dialog box, will result in a more sharp-edged drape image; and ...

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Making it as a Pro: Update: Yongnuo RF-603 Radio Flash Triggers

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Update: Yongnuo RF-603 Radio Flash Triggers. My review of the Yongnuo RF-603C Radio Flash Triggers. Drew a lot of traffic.and a bit of controversy. Since posting it, I purchased another set of two of these triggers, have used them on literally hundreds of shoots, and have come up with some simple ways of overcoming some of their shortcomings. Read on for an update. For mounting on a tripod, I use my Canon E-TTL off-camera...

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150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C | Sigma Corporation of America

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Making it as a Pro: The Best $5 Speedlight Diffuser

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Making it as a Pro. Making a Living as a Pro Photographer. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. The Best $5 Speedlight Diffuser. If you search the web for "flash diffuser," you'll find literally thousands of commercial and home-made diffusers.and sorting through them can be a lifelong chore. I ran across one at Chuck Gardner's Site. Read on to learn about the best $5 flash diffuser I've found. Above is the pattern this mod gives from a typical speedlight - the image above was from a distance of four feet from a p...

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Lens StOp: My last weekend in Dubai

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Saturday, November 17, 2012. My last weekend in Dubai. Last Thursday it was a public holiday in UAE and as usual for us (me and all my colleagues) - it was not. Fortunately (! Management allowed us to leave an hour before normal time. I planned to utilize the weekend in Dubai for some long exposure photography with my friend - it was due for quite a few days. Thursday and Friday night we captured few snaps. Here are my captures. Dubai Skyline from Jumeira beach. Mosque at Dubai creek. Who is this idiot!