One Brief Moment » Photography Info http://blog.charlesdobbs.com "A photograph is a stop in time for just one brief moment." - Charles Dobbs Photography Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:46:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Senior Portrait Photography — Top 5 Tips For Great Senior Portraits http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/11/01/senior-portrait-photography-%e2%80%94-top-5-tips-for-great-senior-portraits/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/11/01/senior-portrait-photography-%e2%80%94-top-5-tips-for-great-senior-portraits/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:46:25 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=995 Senior portraits or high school senior portrait photography as it is generally referred to as, are formal portraits of students (teens to be more precise) taken at the beginning of their senior school of high school. This stepping into the new life, with fresh air and gross attitude is an amazing turning point of life for the high school seniors to cherish for a long time to come. Apart from being the contender for school yearbook, the senior portrait pictures make way for amazing photo-gifts and memorable albums. Being a popular genre or portrait photography, mostly all the techniques of portrait photography apply to this form of art as well. Here are 5 tips especially for those interested in senior portrait photography; to help them gel well with the teens for outstanding results reflecting their true personality — grown up attitude with a little bit of childishness.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/11/01/senior-portrait-photography-%e2%80%94-top-5-tips-for-great-senior-portraits/feed/ 0 5 Elements of Composition in Photography http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/25/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/25/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:38:09 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=993 Good Composition is a key element of good photographs yet is something that is hard to define.

Instead of looking at composition as a set of ‘rules’ to follow – I view it as a set of ingredients that can be taken out of the pantry at any point and used to make a great ‘meal’ photograph. Alternatively I’ve often described it as a set of ‘tools’ that can be taken out of one’s compositional tool belt at any given time in the construction of a great image.

The key is to remember that in the same way as a chef rarely uses all the ingredients at their disposal in any dish – that a photographer rarely uses all of the ingredients of composition in the making of an image.

Today I’d like to look at five of the ingredients or tools, or elements of composition that I draw on in my photography. They’re not ‘rules’ – just things that I consider when setting up a shot.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/25/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography/feed/ 0 10 Tips to Improve Lightroom’s Speed and Performance Without Additional Hardware http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/09/10-tips-to-improve-lightroom%e2%80%99s-speed-and-performance-without-additional-hardware/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/09/10-tips-to-improve-lightroom%e2%80%99s-speed-and-performance-without-additional-hardware/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:40:23 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=991 This article is part one of a two part series on how to improve the performance of Lightroom. Lightroom is a very resource intensive application and you’ll find that as you get quicker and more efficient in Lightroom, the actual software itself will be what’s slowing you down. This tutorial is going to give you 10 tips on how to improve the performance of Lightroom on your machine without purchasing or upgrading your existing hardware.

In this article, we are going to talk about Lightroom preferences and system settings. While in the second part of this two part series we will create a hardware guide where we will teach you which components to upgrade first for the biggest performance boost.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/09/10-tips-to-improve-lightroom%e2%80%99s-speed-and-performance-without-additional-hardware/feed/ 0 9 Things You Must Consider When Buying A Camera Lens http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/08/9-things-you-must-consider-when-buying-a-camera-lens/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/08/9-things-you-must-consider-when-buying-a-camera-lens/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:46:46 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=989 Being a digital photography aspirant, you are like most of us — always looking in for the best equipment and accessories to fit in your photography arsenal. Investing in multiple lenses especially is one of the common quest which gives birth to queries related to buying the camera lens which best suits your needs. Here are 9 things you must consider when buying the camera lenses. This list will definitely help you in understanding the lens terminology or the features offered by lens manufacturers.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/08/9-things-you-must-consider-when-buying-a-camera-lens/feed/ 0 5 Ideas to Kick Start Your Photography Again http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/07/5-ideas-to-kick-start-your-photography-again/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/07/5-ideas-to-kick-start-your-photography-again/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:07:47 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=987 Last week I was speaking with an amateur photographer who told me that he’s been struggling for photographic inspiration and ideas lately.

He reflected that he felt like he’d become something of a lazy photographer and was in a bit of a rut – always photographing the same things in the same ways.

I shared a number of ideas from my own experiences of seeking photographic inspiration some of which I’ll share below but it struck me halfway through the conversation that a lot of the ideas I was suggesting was actually about him limiting himself in his photography in some way – in order to find inspiration.

Let me explain by looking at 5 photography ideas that I shared with him.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/07/5-ideas-to-kick-start-your-photography-again/feed/ 0 Color Management MythBuster — Facts & Myths About Color Management http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/01/color-management-mythbuster-%e2%80%94-facts-myths-about-color-management/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/01/color-management-mythbuster-%e2%80%94-facts-myths-about-color-management/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:53:13 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=985 Color management is the essence of reproducing accurate color information. As much as it is required for attaining color consistency across devices more it gets complicated with each person preferring specific color profile and working space for color managed workflow. While we have taken this topic earlier as well for introducing color management, color spaces and working spaces, this post is dedicated towards various issues, queries, facts and myths about color management. Get started with your specific query.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/09/01/color-management-mythbuster-%e2%80%94-facts-myths-about-color-management/feed/ 0 Vintage Effect in Under a Minute in Photoshop http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/31/vintage-effect-in-under-a-minute-in-photoshop/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/31/vintage-effect-in-under-a-minute-in-photoshop/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:28:30 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=983 Vintage fades and washes seem to have recently become quite popular. Perhaps since the modern DSLR has enabled everyone to shoot such high quality/high definition images, there is more of a desire to reach towards the past with these vintage effects. Regardless of the reason, in this tutorial, I am going to show you just how simple it is to create a vintage wash in your images by cross processing your image with Curves in Photoshop. The best part about it, this technique will literally take you less than 1 minute to do manually, and only seconds if you turn it into a Photoshop Action.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/31/vintage-effect-in-under-a-minute-in-photoshop/feed/ 0 Photography Principles From Design I — 15 Power Composition Tips Using Design Principles http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/25/photography-principles-from-design-i-%e2%80%94-15-power-composition-tips-using-design-principles/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/25/photography-principles-from-design-i-%e2%80%94-15-power-composition-tips-using-design-principles/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:44:36 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=981 Photography design principles are simply some widely accepted guidelines for composing a photograph that add to its impact and make it all the more pleasing and interesting to the human eye. By employing these principles and using your creative imagination, you can make some highly professional compositions. The photographic design principles are equally important for professional as well as amateur photographers because they are the foundation to help you learn photographic composition and enhance interest in the photograph. Let’s take a look at the 15 design principles of photography and how they impact your photographs.

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/25/photography-principles-from-design-i-%e2%80%94-15-power-composition-tips-using-design-principles/feed/ 0 Sometimes Close-ups Are Better From Far Away http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/24/sometimes-close-ups-are-better-from-far-away/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/24/sometimes-close-ups-are-better-from-far-away/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:31:12 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=979 When you think of close-up photography, you probably think of getting in close with a macro lens. After all, it’s called “close-up” photography, right?

Although you can certainly create some awesome images when you’re up close to an object, sometimes it also helps to get farther away. This will give you a lot more control of what to put in the background.

This is best illustrated with an example, so let’s say you have this toy Lego that you want to photograph in front of a blue water bottle. We’ll start with a super closeup photo at about 60 cm away from the Lego:

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]]> http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/24/sometimes-close-ups-are-better-from-far-away/feed/ 0 How to Photograph Newborns http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/22/how-to-photograph-newborns/ http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/2011/08/22/how-to-photograph-newborns/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:20:36 +0000 CD http://blog.charlesdobbs.com/?p=977 Among the many different photo shoots one can do, I’ve always considered newborn photography as one of the most challenging. Having great equipment and great technical know-how is never enough. For me, this is the genre of photography where the human touch is most important.Here are a few simple tips to make the most out of a newborn session:

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