ISO - How sensitive your camera is to light part 2
January 14, 2013
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Seahorse at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, shot at ISO 6400
Aside from understanding aperture and shutter speed, the third most important setting on your digital camera that is important to understand in improving your photography is how and why to use the proper ISO setting for the right condition. For those of you who remember the time before di...
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Headshots with Terisa
January 08, 2013
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Shot at f/7.1 at 1/160th of a second at ISO 160 at 180mm. Lit with a Canon 430EX speedlite from camera left.
I recently did an outdoor photo shoot for my friend Terisa's website. Originally we were planning on going to San Francisco to a few different locations, but decided at the last minute to change the location to the Niles district in Fremo...
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Rule of Thirds
January 06, 2013
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Using the rule of thirds, I focused on the rightmost pumpkin and the smiling hay bale behind it. Shot at F/6.3 at 1/100th of a second.
One of the first things that one will learn in order to take better photos is the rule of thirds. The basic principle of the rule is to imagine the viewfinder or screen on the back of your camera broken up into...
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Bokeh - The aesthetic quality of the blur
December 30, 2012
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Roseli & Jacob - Shot at f/4.0 at 1/500th of a second.
When you have a photo of something that is in the foreground while the background is out of focus, or blurry, the quality of that blurry background is known as bokeh, (pronounced boh-kay). The term comes from the Japanese term "boke" which means blur or haze. Bokeh occurs when the backgrou...
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Merry Christmas 2012
December 25, 2012
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Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy some holiday themed photos. All of the photos posted in this blog post were done with my Canon EOS M, and edited in Aperture. Season's greetings everyone!
Interesting angle of a Christmas tree at the Stanford Shopping Center. Shot at ISO 100 at f/2.0 at 1/100th of a second.
Closeup of an ornament at the Chris...
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