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I think everyone has a few photography tricks up their sleve.  Here is a place for you to share.

A cool trick, I think, is to carefully and slowly zoom in or out on an extended shutter speed.  I will try to post an example in the gallery.
   

Looking forward to that., Matt

Quote from: Matt on November 30, 2004, 11:09:05 PM
A cool trick, I think, is to carefully and slowly zoom in or out on an extended shutter speed. I will try to post an example in the gallery.

Hi Matt...

How about posting the photo here so that we can see it without going to the Gallery.  Just RIGHT click on top of your medium-sized photo over in the GALLERY and use the [ img] and [ /img] (without the spaces) code to put it here.  If you need help, just holler and I'll do it for you.

A typical and great looking shot has always been the slow shutter speed flash combo.  It's a bit tricky to measure out the power of your flash with your wanted shutter speed but you get great results...



I use it a lot for low light action and the lighting and slight blur is quite wonderful but it really is a luck of the draw kind of shot.  never can guess whether it'll come out great or a fuzzy mess. 

I wouldn't call it a trick, really.  But I try to shoot the same thing in as many ways as I can.  For example if I am shooting a cluster of flowers, I'll focus on one, take a shot, then focus on another and take the shot, and so on.

The other thing I do is change the aperture setting for the same set shot, without changing location.  I'll start at F32, shoot, click down to F20, shoot, and on down, changing the depth of field in each shot.

Of course digital makes this all possible.  Once I download the images, I look through them, see what settings worked the best, and take notes.

Gripped,
Kevin

I guess everyone already knows the one about black stockings... Or a really fine black scarf.
When placed over the lense, it provides a very nice soft focus effect. An example of this is the shot of my Wife's eyes in my album. Sorry if that was too obvious, but I didn't see it listed yet. Peace, Ritz.