By Rudy Lopez, on August 19th, 2008%
Here are a few things you can do to make expressing yourself with photos easier.: Must you stand so close? It doesn’t matter if you are taking a photo of a person or a landscape, it is important that you get as close to the subject as you can. Our brain interprets distance and . . . → Read More: Photography Quick Tips: Five ways to immediately improve your photos
By Rudy Lopez, on August 18th, 2008%
Composition and exposure are the two major elements in creating a pleasing photo. Getting a good exposure is a technical skill. After all, there are only so many combinations of shutter and aperture that you can use on a specific shot. Composition is a different matter entirely. Composition cannot be defined, there are no . . . → Read More: Photography Quick Tips: The rule of thirds
By Rudy Lopez, on August 18th, 2008%
Bedroom no flash
Bedroom with Flash
There are many situations when a photographer needs to convey interior AND exterior details in the same image. Since exposure values are so different between inside and outside, it is impossible to show detail in both areas in one shot. You have to choose whether . . . → Read More: Photography Tips – No more blow outs. Seeing through windows.
By Rudy Lopez, on August 16th, 2008%
Now that your new images have been cataloged in the Aperture 2 library, it’s time to select, edit, and export the shots. You will need files that are versatile, good for print and web. Excerpt from the video: This tutorial will lead you through the selection, editing, cropping and rename-export process.
- Open Aperture 2 and select the project you want to work on.
- Click the Quick Preview icon to keep RAW images from loading while making selections.
- Make your selections by clicking the green checkmark. This will assign 5 stars to the image. You can isolate your favorite images by filtering the five star rated images.
- You will need to disable Quick Preview in order to edit the images.
- Watch the following video for the rest of the tutorial.
. . . → Read More: Aperture 2 Tutorials #2 – Selecting, Editing, Cropping, and Exporting Photos
By Rudy Lopez, on August 16th, 2008%
Aperture 2 can be a daunting program without any guidance. The following video is the first tutorial in a series designed to make using Aperture 2 easier to use. This video covers workflow from beginning to end, importing photos and getting organized. Excerpt from the video:
- Create a folder called “dump folder” on your desktop. This is a permanent folder, you will use it to temporarily hold all new pictures until they are uploaded into an Aperture 2 Library.
- Create a folder with a name you would like to have for the project. We will call this folder “House Plant Photos.”
- Set Image Capture to import into the “dump folder.” Download Images.
- Drag the images from the “dump folder” into the project folder.
- Watch the video below to learn the rest!
. . . → Read More: Aperture 2 Tutorials #1 – Importing and Organizing Photos
By Rudy Lopez, on August 12th, 2008%
The streams and rivers in Colorado are usually packed with anglers on the weekends during the summer. Any opportunity to escape during the week is almost a guarantee that you will have the water to yourself. The fishing spot in the video is one of the small streams that run through Rocky Mountain National Park, and that’s all the location info you get! It was a breezy, cool day. Autumn is definitely on its way in the high country. I had maybe a dozen strikes throughout the four hours on the river, I only landed one. . . . → Read More: Fishing on a Tuesday
By Rudy Lopez, on August 11th, 2008%
 The area south of Chatfield Reservoir, and north of Roxborough State Park is home to impressive rock formations and equally impressive neighborhoods. Ravenna is a new development south of Waterton Rd, near Waterton Canyon. All of the homes in Ravenna are designed in an Italian style, this one in particular was built by Villagio homes. These shots are the builders entries for Custom Home of the Year. Taken over three days, these shots represent the best of the builder’s work, and I was proud to be part of the project. Hopefully, the images will help bring home the gold for Villagio. The home sits in the valley between two immense hills, with exposed rock providing privacy for the back yard and a grassy hill providing balance for the other side. The front of the home faces west, making for sunny mornings out back, and golden evenings out front. . . . → Read More: Denver Architecture – Italian Villa at Ravenna
By Rudy Lopez, on August 6th, 2008%
- D300
With image sensors getting cheaper and more powerful, most serious amateur and semi-pro shooters are opting for the versatile Digital SLR, merrily leaving their film cameras behind. This guide is geared toward people that are already familiar with an SLR photography, but are unfamiliar with the digital process. Shooting with a DSLR is just like shooting with a film camera. All of the common mechanical functions are there, right where you would expect them to be. And, while there aren’t any chemicals to deal with, each image still has to be processed before it can be shared with the universe.
THE SENSOR
In film photography, a chemically treated segment of plastic is exposed to light for a predetermined period of time, permanently embedding an image onto the film. The film is then processed to create negatives, which in turn are processed into photographs or slides. The concept is the same for digital photography, except instead of a segment of film being exposed to light, a CCD (charged coupling device) is exposed and the light is converted into electrical signals that are recognized by the camera’s processor, the files are then stored on a solid state memory device such as a CF card. Each pixel on the sensor captures red, blue, and green information. . . . → Read More: DSLR Basics – Understanding the Digital Camera
By Rudy Lopez, on August 1st, 2008%
There are some things that seem to bring a person closer to their essential being, closer to whatever it is that defines ‘you’. There are things that we experience that are so personal that there is simply no one on earth that could understand but you. Now that I look at it, that statement sounds a little more grandiose that I intended. I mean to say that there is something in each of us that connects to our souls in a way that cannot be described. It doesn’t matter whether it’s watching your favorite NASCAR driver succeed (whatever it is that is considered success), or being able to lay down a nasty blues riff, it is that connection is what makes a person an ‘individual’. . . . → Read More: An examination of existence, from Roxborough State Park
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