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Podcast #99 – Conversation with Roberto Valenzuela – Talking about balance Podcast #99 – Conversation with Roberto Valenzuela – Talking about balance

In this episode Kerry sits down with Roberto Valenzuela to discuss balance in your images. Balance takes two general forms, one for dealing with how people are posed, and the other on how objects are composed within your shot. This conversation covers balance in terms of composition and how to arrange subjects and objects to achieve an overall balance in your image.

What’s it like to shoot film these days What’s it like to shoot film these days

Recently I decided to take up the challenge of shooting a few rolls of film through my old Canon AE-1. To be completely honest here the last film I shot was a single roll through …

Photo Project 24 #6 – The Accidental Ghost Town Photo Project 24 #6 – The Accidental Ghost Town

Unfortunately there is a chain link fence surrounding this structure and while we could have shot through it at pointblank range and it would basically disappear, we really wanted a clean view, although …

Photo Project 24 #5 – Some Kind of Bovine Photo Project 24 #5 – Some Kind of Bovine

Outside of Blythe it was time to take another shot when we tried to get off the road to shoot some wrecked cars. Unfortunately we couldn’t get to the vehicles but the road ended at …

Photo Project 24 #4 – Rolling Down The Highway Photo Project 24 #4 – Rolling Down The Highway

What do you shoot when you are supposed to stop once an hour when the time comes up and there is just NOTHING around? That’s when it’s time to get creative and pull out an …

Digium Card Photo Shoot Walkthru Digium Card Photo Shoot Walkthru

Every once in a while a shoot comes up with specific requirements and your job is to figure out how to get the shot that they want. Today I needed to shoot some Digium interface cards for 888VoipStore.com. The challenge was that I wanted to get a vertical shot with a reflection underneath.