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If you find yourself shooting in low light situations then digital noise is likely to bedevil your results. That is to say, as you push the ISO higher to make the sensor more sensitive to light, you will get … Continue reading
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My good friend and fellow writer, Alex Cook, did me a great honor. He asked to use one of my photos for the cover of his upcoming book, Louisiana Saturday Night. It is coming out through LSU Press (which … Continue reading
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“You don’t have to look very far in south Louisiana to find a good place to eat fried seafood, but the list of places that do it really well is fairly short. To this list I would add Kevin’s Cajun … Continue reading
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There are many different ways to shoot a portrait. Environmental portraits show a subject in context, like a potter in his studio. Then there are dropped background portraits wherein the characteristics of a wide aperture are used to blur the … Continue reading
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So, there was a brief period in which it looked like I needed to get some pictures of sunflowers for a client. In the end, they handled their own images, but not before I had called around looking for … Continue reading
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For all the hopping around I do between techniques, there is one style of photo that I have never really explored— the silhouette. This is purely from lack of effort on my part. I like a well-composed silhouette as … Continue reading
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I spent most of yesterday photographing sunflowers for a client. I shot them on my porch, in the street, on the sidewalk, in the grass— all over the place. I shot them with a macro lens and with a … Continue reading
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So, my Yashica 124-G went missing sometime ago. The 124-G is a great camera, made in Japan in the 1970s. It is a Twin Lens Reflex (TLR as opposed to SLR) camera that is made for medium format film. … Continue reading
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Let me start by saying that I believe that less is generally more when it comes to photography. At least, less is more when it comes to capturing your initial image. Where you decide to proceed in post is … Continue reading
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No one who lives in the Baton Rouge area needs to be told that we had an amazing lightning storm last night. After I shot the Bob Edwards event for WRKF, I stopped at my house and picked up … Continue reading
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Buried deep in south Livingston Parish is the Bear Island Cemetery. It sits on a small rise north of Black Lake, an appendage of the larger Lake Maurepas. This aging and falling-in collection of headstones is one of the last … Continue reading
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My three-year old cousin Annie had her birthday party this weekend. Quinn and Anna and I were in attendance. There was cake and ice cream in those little cups (which sadly no longer come with the wooden, tongue depressor style … Continue reading