3.09.2008

thank you!

thank you all for all of your kind comments about my photography - here and on 2 peas! i kind of feel like i should clarify myself a bit. i have a canon xt; 50mm 1.8, 28-135mm, and 85mm 1.8 lenses; and i recently got the 430ex speedlight. i've been practicing some with that, but i really need to practice with it more. i really prefer natural light, but i know that won't be possible at the wedding. i have a diffuser, which is great! but i've also been learning about bouncing the flash. i loved one of the tips i found about bouncing it off the wall behind me. so far that's my favorite flash technique. i have read understanding exposure and one of the scott kelby books, and i've been shooting in manual for about a year or so. i switched to shooting in raw last summer too, but it would be good if i could learn a bit more about the conversion process. i have a really hard time getting the white balance right unless i set it manually before taking the shots. i've read a lot about grey cards too, so i should try that out next i think. i use photoshop cs and pse 4. i have photoshop on our computer upstairs and pse on my laptop. so i know it's better to edit the pictures with photoshop on the upstairs computer, but it's almost always more convenient to edit on my laptop. i just wish it could be more reliable. i have calibrated it with the spyder pro, but of course it's never quite right. so that's about all i know! lol! sorry if i've bored some of you! here are a few picts from this week. i've been doing a picture a day - they are all posted at 2 peas and on my flickr account, so sorry if you're sick of seeing them! lol! eta - boo! blogger isn't letting me post picts now. i'll try again later.

2 comments:

kelly said...

i love your photos holls and have just been amazed by how you continue to grow your talents!!!

Jessica said...

thanks for sharing, always love hearing what others have and how they do stuff