Showing posts with label portraits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portraits. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

I've been playing around with Luminar 4.1 and I'm having fun with it. Most of the presets are over the top but the slider controls in the development interface are really pretty good.

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Lou. Not retouched in Luminar. Some Facial retouch. And a tiny bit of lip color. Skin Enhancer and a bit of vignette.  Dod...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Work I did decades ago still drives my search for the right digital camera and lens. Odd how that happens. I'm finally narrowing it down.

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L.L. This was photographed in my favorite, old studio at 500 San Marco St., over in east Austin. I was renting about 3000 square feet...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

My Theatrical Test of the Sony RX10. And what a fun romp it was.

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My mistake. I used the clear digital zoom (interpolated pixels) feature on this one  to get a 400mm equivalent that I could handhold.....
Monday, July 01, 2013

Metering is a wonderful thing.

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I have two lazy habits that sometimes sabotage my best intentions when making photographs. I've gotten used to using cameras in auto...
Friday, March 08, 2013

If you are in Austin or plan to be in Austin before May 12th, go to the HRC and see the Arnold Newman Show.

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"Photography is very unreal. You take a three-dimensional world and reduce it to two. You take color and reduce it to black and ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Business Portrait from December.

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I had a photographic assignment late last year to make images of a spa out near Lake Travis. We spent a day photographing different...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Obscure and marvelous objects of keen desire. Meter me. Please.

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A light meter for the 21st century. While the photo world pants at the rumor of more and more very similar cameras being readie...
Friday, August 03, 2012

The LED Lighting book finally arrives in the Kindle format. Thank Goodness!!!

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After months of waiting my fifth book, LED Lighting: Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers , is now available as a Kindle Book ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Late in the afternoon, fishing at the old Perdanales State Park.

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A few years back there was a magazine in Austin called, Texas Life.   It was a bold upstart that intended to go toe to toe with the heavywe...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

We have hit our 5,000,000th page view. Yippee ! Another milestone.

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I thought I'd celebrate with a gallery of my most popular images..... ...