There are times when photograph inspire, times when they just encourage you to give up with no hope of ever getting any good, and other times when you just sit back and enjoy. Fortunately, Trey Ratcliff’s work often falls into the later camp and stuckincustomers.com is one of the best sites on the web for …
Category Archives: Photography
TFP shooting for the first time
I responded on a TFP modelling forum to a request for some guidance on a first TFP shoot: Any Advice – TFP Models Try to look at things from the model’Fixes point of view. They do not know you from Adam. So they will judge you on what you say on here. In due course, …
Testing a model
Finding myself in Swansea for a weekend, I thought it would be worthwhile giving a local budding model a chance to do a simple shoot, try out a few poses, get used being photographed. I found one on TFP Models in nearby Port Talbot. The model was only 16, an age group many photographers will …
Teaching photography
I was pleased to spend some time around the Swansea Marina with a work colleague last Saturday, and give him an introduction to photography with a DSLR camera. There is much more to photography than learning the mechanics of operating a camera, but it gets much easier to start to learn the art of photography …
Your camera takes nice pictures
One of my favourite cartoon strips from Amateur Photographer: from What the Duck
Workflow to process lots of photos from a shoot using Lightroom 3
After a lengthy model shoot, my wife and I may well have over 1000 images to review, so I would be completely lost without Lightroom – I have had it from the first version, and upgraded quickly when 3 came out having been very pleased with the beta.Workflow wise: I import from the memory card …
The art of photography and incredible technology changes to come
How will our art evolve when we have 3d, omni-focus, very large dynamic range, high-speed video cameras rather than single focus, narrow dynamic range, still (and sometimes hd video) cameras? The development of omni-focus cameras (that is, cameras that can keep everything in sharp focus at all times, with no focusing required) has been talked …
Time lapse video
I make no secret of my enjoyment of photography. I readily acknowledge that I am no great practitioner (too much haste, no natural eye), but I enjoy it. I never got into video and on the whole I think for most memories a photograph is more powerful than a video. Of course, a well produced …
Portraiture camera settings
On a photography group on linkedin someone asked for advice on what settings worked best for portraiture. I replied thus: You have great advice, and a wonderful example (which I have made a favourite on flickr).Let me add some basics, apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you know all this already, but just …
Tips for a model to get a few simple shots with a compact camera
Some advice given to a model who was a little too far away to come to me for a portfolio shoot. Key to starting your portfolio is to get some good basic shots showing you in a few simple poses.I am going to assume that you have access to a basic compact camera, something a …