Raise your hand if you take photos on your phone everyday…. and then you wonder why your phone photos don’t look quite like the phone photos you see online. You don’t need the latest and greatest smart phone to take print-worthy photos, I promise! I’ve used an iPhone 6s for the past 3 years and
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Photographing People In Full Sun | Backlighting Method
NOTE: The “skill level” for this post is somewhere around intermediate. You should have a general knowledge of photographic technical terms such as “ISO”, “aperture”, “shutter speed”, and “metering” to get the most out of this article 🙂 Okay! Let’s begin! As a natural light photographer, photographing people in full sun came with quite a learning
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The Freckled Key Nerds Out [Key Film Project]
Good afternoon, friends! Last summer, Scott and I started a little film project using his parents old Minolta XG-M (circa 1980?). You can see the results of our first roll of color film and our first roll of black and white film on our Facebook page (http://facebook.com/thefreckledkeyphotography) in the album #keyfilmproject. I wasn’t in love
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The Freckled Key Nerds Out: Composition
Image Info: Camera – Canon 5D Mark III, Lens – Canon 85mm f/1.2L, Camera Setting – M (Manual), Aperture – f2.0, Shutter Speed – 1/100, ISO – 1250, White Balance – Custom. After finding the perfect light for an image – ideally an hour to an hour and half before sunset (“Golden Hour“) for a
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The Freckled Key Nerds Out: LIGHTING [Taking Great Photos Indoors – Find That Window!]
I am so excited to start a new “column”, if you will, on our blog – The Freckled Key Nerds Out! One of my many New Year’s resolutions this year was to write more photography-related posts, verses just post images from sessions with our clients. Now, I will preface this by saying that I have
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