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[Faux] Medium Format Elizabeth Wilson
So, I definitely got bit by the medium format bug. Sometime between now and when I posted the photo of my roommate Stephen using the fake medium format trick I learned, I decided to just go all out and buy a film medium format camera off ebay. I was able to find a Mamiya RB67 [...]
[Faux] Medium Format
Yesterday I read a tutorial online about how to fake medium format’s depth of field by using the panorama function in Photoshop. I’m gonna experiment with it a bit more to see if it’s something worth doing for portraits since I have creative leeway in how I process the photos. Here is a quick test [...]
How to: Remote camera on the Ramblin Reck
As I mentioned the other day, last year I had an idea to mount a camera on the front of the Ramblin Reck, an old Ford Model A that serves as one of Georgia Tech’s mascots. The car leads the players out onto the field before every home game, and sometimes away games. Earlier this [...]
How To: Photo Mechanic code replacement
Earlier this football season, myself and many other photographers were caught by surprise when two different website known for their Photo Mechanic code replacement tool either stopped updating or started charging for their services. Code replacement is a major time saver. I’ll take a minute to explain it for people who may never have used [...]
You look (tilt)-shifty
One of the less practical for every day use pieces of camera equipment is a tilt-shift lens. The lens lets you tilt or shift the plane of focus so its not parallel to the lens to create a number of effects. Normally this is used for distortion correction when shooting buildings from the vantage point [...]
Starry Night
Awhile ago I made these cutouts that shape the bokeh (out of focus parts of a photo) of my shots. I’ve never really had a chance to use it, so I thought I’d give it a shot tonight. Basically, I went outside and focused up close to throw a light in the background really out [...]
HDR at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.
I took the photos for this during the first few minutes of the third quarter during today’s game. There is a bit of ghosting on the bottom because the people were moving around a lot, obviously the affect is lessened the further away everyone gets. I’m really aching to try this in a high contrast [...]
High Dynamic Range at Bobby Dodd Stadium
Tonight I’m shooting the Georgia Tech football game against Jacksonville State University, which I coincidentally helped cover when I was interning in Anniston. Anyways, I got to the game fairly early to avoid traffic and decided to play around with high dynamic range imaging. HDR involves taking multiple photos of the same scene at different [...]
Jacksonvillians do it a day early
Shot some fireworks that went on tonight in Jacksonville. This is the first time I’ve successfully shot fireworks, granted the last time I tried was last 4th of July, but having a year in between shoots gives you time to think about how you’ll do it. I was basically exposing for the fireworks. I set [...]
Middle School Math finally comes in handy
I found this tutorial today about how to turn a standard TI-83 graphing calculator into an intervalometer. An intervalometer lets you set the camera to shoot a frame at regular intervals over a predetermined amount of time. Afterwards, you use any video editing program to stitch the images together to get time lapse. I found [...]
