Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #31 is all about tele­con­vert­ers. Tele­con­vert­ers are an appa­ra­tus that you put between the body of your SLR or DSLR cam­era and the lens. It then increases the effec­tive focal length of the lens on the cam­era. In this pod­cast we dis­cuss their advan­tages and disadvantages.

Thanks again to Norm for his com­ment on last week’s pod­cast reflec­tors in pho­tog­ra­phy.

New seg­ment again this week — PHOTO OF THE WEEK
This week, the pho­to­graph is by Zseike and I com­ment in the pod­cast on why I think this pho­to­graph is fan­tas­tic.
Image removed at Zseike’s request.

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Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #30 is all about how to use reflec­tors to bet­ter your pho­tog­ra­phy. We focus on com­mon types of reflec­tors, when to use them as well as why reflec­tors are an essen­tial item‚for every‚photographer’s toolkit.The fol­low­ing pho­tographs illus­trate how effec­tive a reflec­tor can be to add light to sub­jects that are in shadow or that need a lit­tle extra boost of light. Note how espe­cially the eyes of both my boy (Ziglet the cat) and my wife (pos­ing in ‘Pulp Fic­tion’ style)‚receive extra illu­mi­na­tion and become much more vibrant when a reflec­tor is used. Note that the expo­sure DID NOT change for any of the reflected/unreflected shots. I also did not do any manip­u­la­tion what­so­ever in a graph­ics pro­gram as I wanted to clearly illus­trate the effects of chang­ing only 1 vari­able. (adding a reflec­tor) You can click the pho­tographs to enlarge them.

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Ziglet — No reflector	Ziglet — With reflec­tor — Eyes and face are vibrant
Ziglet — No reflector	Ziglet with reflec­tor doing its job in the photo
Carmy — No reflector	Carmy — With reflec­tor — Eyes and face are vibrant
Carmy with reflec­tor doing its job in the photo

New seg­ment in the pod­cast — Photography.ca — Photo of the week -
This week, the pho­to­graph is by Arkady Renko and I com­ment in the pod­cast on why I think this pho­to­graph is fantastic.

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Other pho­tog­ra­phy links men­tioned in this pod­cast;
Flickr
Lead­ing lines in pho­tog­ra­phy
The rule of thirds in pho­tog­ra­phy‚ ‚

Thanks as always for the com­ments by‚Bekka, Al and Norm‚on our pre­vi­ous podcast‚where we Interviewed‚fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Rafael Gold­chain. We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more.

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚focuses on how to pose mod­els. Pos­ing mod­els is a huge topic but with the help of‚Mon­treal wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher‚Dominic Fuiz­zotto‚we are able to pro­vide some prac­ti­cal and easy tips. We talk about poses that work well and poses that suck.

This pod­cast is the result of a sug­ges­tion from daronj‚and I WELCOME other sug­ges­tions as top­ics for future pod­casts. Feel free to send those sug­ges­tions to pho­tog­ra­phy {dot} ca @ gmail{d o t} com (please use the cor­rect email formatting).

Thanks so much to‚Gideon‚for his com­ment on our last pod­cast wide angle pho­tog­ra­phy.‚We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more.

Other links men­tioned in this pod­cast;
‚- Mark Ble­vis — He cre­ated the new theme music and is a pod­cast­ing expert avail­able for con­sul­ta­tion.
‚- One model place is a great web­site fea­tur­ing mod­els and model wannabees. You can def­i­nitely check out (for free)‚poses that work well off this site. Keep in mind these are mostly good look­ing peo­ple on this site. (I’d never get in)

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚focuses on wide angle lenses in pho­tog­ra­phy. We talk about the aspects of wide angle lenses includ­ing when to use them and how to use them cre­atively. The pho­tographs below are all taken using a wide angle lens. Note the obvi­ous dis­tor­tion in pho­to­graph #3. Note the rel­a­tive sharp­ness from fore­ground to back­ground of the roses shot even though I used F-11 as my aper­ture. This sharp­ness would never hap­pen using a Tele­photo lens. These are all facets of using wide angle lenses and‚we talk about them in the podcast.

Thanks so much to Kevin, ‚Saf­fron and‚daronj for their‚comments and sug­ges­tions that I am tak­ing to heart. We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more.

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚focuses on cre­ative shadow use‚and incor­po­rat­ing actual shad­ows into your pho­tog­ra­phy using the sun‚and other light sources.‚Thanks so much to Cindy and Al for their superkind com­ments (posted in our last pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #25) about our pod­cast­ing efforts. We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more.

Links men­tioned in this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast:
‚- Ed‚Gordon and Peter Gordon’s work
‚- daronJ’s work on Flickr
‚- Bald Monk’s work on Flickr
‚- Photography.ca’s work (Marko Kulik — that’s me)‚on Flickr
‚- Flickr — Photo shar­ing web­site
‚- Google reader (great for orga­niz­ing pod­casts and blogs)

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‚ Beach Kiss — Marko Kulik

Beach Walk — Marko Kulik

Hold­ing My Own — Ed Gor­don

Heart Shadow by daronj — Tech­nique — Less com­pli­cated than I suggested‚in the pod­cast — Thanks for shar­ing daronj! — “I ended up using a sim­ple small hand held flash light at about a 45 degree angle from directly behind. That’s it.”

Rus­sia in the Spot­light — by Bald Monk

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast talks about using shut­ter speed in pho­tog­ra­phy for cre­ative effects. When you want to pho­to­graph some­thing that is mov­ing, you the pho­tog­ra­pher should decide on the shut­ter speed. Don’t let the cam­era decide for you.

The dig­i­tal pho­tographs below were taken at Red Rock Cross­ing in Sedona Ari­zona (ya gotta go — it’s amaz­ing!). You can see that‚the long shut­ter speed (1 sec­ond) has a blur­ring paintery effect in the water, where the fast shut­ter speed (1/500)‚practically freezes the water. You can click the pho­tos to enlarge them.

Links men­tioned in this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast:
– Nice com­ment from Andre from Brazil

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‚ Shut­ter speed‚ — 1/500 of a second

Shut­ter speed — 1/30 of a second

Shut­ter speed — 1 second

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast talks about DELIBERATE under­ex­po­sure in dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy. Many new dig­i­tal cam­eras have a ten­dency to blow out the high­lights when the scene is too bright. Through judi­cious use of delib­er­ate under­ex­po­sure you can get back some of those blown out highlights.

The dig­i­tal pho­tographs below were taken at the Grand Canyon in Ari­zona. You can see that even though the 2 stop under­ex­posed image is way too dark when uncor­rected, I was able to pull out quite a nice pho­to­graph with excel­lent high­light detail. You can click the pho­tos to enlarge them.

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Meter read­ing — uncorrected	1 stop under­ex­posed — uncorrected
2 stops under­ex­posed — uncorrected	Final photo from the 2 stop under­ex­posed image — color cor­rected with local dodg­ing and burning

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast dis­cusses how we can use lead­ing lines to make our pho­tog­ra­phy much more cre­ative. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

Thanks to Dominic Fuiz­zotto‚for allow­ing the use of the‚cute por­trait of my wife and me. Thanks as well to Rich Legg for allow­ing me to use his amaz­ing pho­to­graph of the road with the yel­low lines.

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