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Need help picking ‘em?

Posted by admin in Opportunity, Try this! on August 22nd, 2010

If you need help in picking out photos for either the Sumter County Fair or the South Carolina State Fair feel free to shoot me an email with the fair you want to enter listed in the subject line and no more than 10 photos to look at.

I can’t find the registration form for the County Fair yet but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your entries printed and ready to go.

Now what I want you to do is narrow down your choices to 10 and not sending me multiple emails with 10 photos.  I’m not going to do all the work, I know how hard it is to narrow photos down and that is just part of the experience.  Maybe you have 4 photos you wnat to enter but 2 won’t be elligible next year, then I suggest going with the older photos.  But then who knows what you will have for next year’s fair.

Steven Hewett

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Raindrops, raindrops & flowers of course!

Posted by admin in Try this! on January 15th, 2010

One of our members asked about photographing raindrops, so I here are some tips and a neat little video that I found describing how to not only photograph them, but how to come up with create backgrounds for your picture too, enjoy!

You’ll need …

  • A tripod or Gorillapod
  • Macro Lens (or other macro setup)
  • A Plamp or similar device
  • Rainy day OR a spray bottle
  • Flowers
  • PATIENCE!

Some other things to remember …

  • Shoot on a windless day
  • Find raindrop and compose your image
  • Focus on the image in the center of the raindrop
  • Flower that is in the shade OR us a diffuser
  • Open up your aperture
  • Find general position w/ fingers and then replace with flower
  • Making your own background! *This is pretty neat

Raindrop Reflections from Adler Photo Workshops on Vimeo.

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