The Visual Science Lab by Kirk Tuck is a site that I check frequently, providing a great balance of philosophy and technical information. I do admit that I often lack the time to read through all his posts in full. In recent times, it garnered extra attention from others within the photographic writing community because Kirk decided to stop blogging for various reasons,...
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Pardon me if this topic is rather newbie-ish, but sometimes I myself will be confused by things I see other people doing. So in a way, this is a post where I seek the clarify the situation for myself. That said, hopefully readers already know how to bounce flashes and the basics of lighting. Having a flash directly mounted on the camera (not the pop-up flash) is quite...
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Behind every shot you see published, be it online or in print, are thousands of hours of work, and perhaps hundreds of similar-looking shots that are forever silent in the archives of the photographer. This is the story about those rejects and those hidden hours of work, because they are important in the same way as how years and years of meals and hard work contribute to...
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If we think of cosplay photography as a mix of fashion and environmental portraiture, it is inevitable that the question of location must come up. To do proper justice to the characters depicted, an appropriate location is critical. And given the shooting style I have adopted, the location also contributes various factors to how the picture is composed, and...
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And so recently, it seems the long-delayed antipodean summer weather has arrived. Of course, summer hasn’t actually officially commenced, but for photographers, the expanded day light (combined with daylight savings) means night shoots get pushed to later, as do golden hour times. Daylight has also, it seems, become much stronger and brighter, necessitating controls...
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Rather than thinking about cosplay photography as being an isolated and unique genre, I prefer to think of it as a mix and match of skills from different areas. Once we start thinking about it like this, we open to ourselves a huge range of opportunities and resources from which we can enrich our abilities. I am not a cosplayer, but if we apply the same sort of dissection...
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“You have a very good camera; of course you’re gonna get good photos”. That’s something I hear from one of my sisters on a fairly regular basis. Of course, not everyone in the world is all that interested in photography. It is unreasonable to expect them to learn about the technical aspects of the craft, so misconceptions abound. I would be the...
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