We have talked white balance in the past and have reviewed different products that help you get a good white balance setting. A new product has hit the streets that does the same thing, and since the Dojo is all about helping you to improve your images and doing so at a decent price, we needed to take a look at the new Colorright disc. So let’s take a quick look at why we need white balance and if the Colorright disc is worth the cost.
For almost everything in photography there is usually a simple way to figure out what it is you are trying to accomplish, whether it is figuring out how to light something, what shutter speed to use to stop motion or to create a sense of movement. The hardest thing to do is to figure out how much depth of field will be in your images. While you can sometimes get a preview or you can always do the shoot-chimp-repeat dance until you get what you want. The trick is to actually know how to calculate the amount of depth of field you will get based on your aperture and focal length. This is where the Expoaperture discs come into play. If you want a specific effect without the trial-and-error, then the Expoaperture discs will save you tons of time and once you get a solid feel for how the system works you will eventually be able to setup your shots without it.
It’s the height of the wedding season now and people that are shooting their first weddings or considering shooting a wedding should know a few tips to make sure the day goes as smooth as possible. Since weddings are our primary income at L7 Studios we figured we would pass along a number of our favorite tips and tricks.
In this tutorial i show you have to take a product shot and make sure you have a perfect white background around it. This will make use of the new retouching tool in Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.
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If you haven’t visited the L7Foto Flickr Group, we post regular assignments to help people have inspiration for taking different types of pictures. This new assignment is for you to go out and take a picture where you live that shows something unique or special about your city and shows what winter in your city is like. Showing a tree covered in snow may be a pretty picture but it may not represent anything about where you live. In my entry, I am showing the new balloon ride that is in the Great Park that is being built from an old Marine base. Since I am in southern California, I don’t have snow, but we do get low laying fog on cold mornings and you can see this in the image around the base of the balloon ride. So stretch your imagination and go out and show us winter in your hometown and post it to the L7Foto Flickr Group.
