Sugar in your Water?

I was on the scene in the Somkey Mountains when there was a huge spill of processed white sugar.. Okay, so not really. We've all seen these images of a waterfall where the water looks like flowing sugar and some of us have even wondered how to do those. Well It's pretty simple, and a good tripod helps.

First off, you need a tripod and a nice DRY place to take your picture from. Mount your camera on the tripod and set your camera to manual mode. You need a shutter speed of at least 1/2 second or longer to get the effect, of course you can play wiht it to get the look you like. DIGITAL is great for showing you the results. Apature values are normally pretty small, f16 or f22 or smaller, so you don't overexpose the background images.

Sometimes you can not get the shutter speed you want and maintain detail in the sky, in such a case you have a couple options, a ND (netrual Density filter) makes everything darker to help with the limitations of your smallest apature. You can also use the lowest ISO setting 50 or 100 depending on your camera. One other more advance thing you can do is called HDR or High Dynamic Range Photography where you take several exposures of the scene at different fstops and or Shutter speeds and then digitally process them to produce one image.

Good luck shooting..

First Tip - Using your Flash Outdoors

This is a simple thing really, People in outdoor pictures are often dark! Why? Well the camera is trying to expose for the over all picture and the background is often very bright compared to our subject. A very simple solution to this problem is to use a fill flash to brighten the person up and still allow the background have some detail too.. It also work for shadows on faces, etc that can happen under trees, etc. It might not fix it totally, but will turn a totally unusable shot into at least a picture where you can see the person. There are other way that a professional photographer might handle this, we use flash and exposure compensation to get the desired results.

Your flash is not only useful indoors or at night, so next time you are at the beach, or the park, turn it on to fill flash or fire always. The above picture was taken out of our hotel room at Myrtle Beach using fill flash, without the flash our Niece was very dark and you really could not see her face that well.

New Blog

Welcome to our new blog, in this blog you will find helpful tip and help for Photographer's. I'm a Wedding, Portrait, Boudoir, and hobby Photographer. Note I did say hobby at the end, not only do I like to make money with my photography but I enjoy it as a hobby also. If you visit my web site at http://starrphotos.net/ you will find all of the above.

Our galleries hold samples of our other work also. We are going to explore the other stuff with this blog, Sure I have a blog for the weddings that is a little more personal about what we have going on with them and we have one set up for wedding tips for the brides out there. This one is for the Photographers out there, and to get the photography tips out of the other blogs. Non-Photographres don't want to hear about things like f-stops, key lights, fill lights, and the like.

If you want to find out what we are doing as a company, check out our blog at http://georgestarrphotography.blogspot.com/

If there is somethng you have questions on, feel free to email me a george@starrphotos.com

The Photo today was taken with a special camera that captures Infrared light, a Fujifilm IS-1. Taken in Sharon Woods in Cincinnati, Ohio