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Winter brings cold and condensation that can damage your camera and related equipment.

basic equipment
Most manufacturers do not guarantee the proper functioning of their equipment below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. With a DSLR, you’ll probably have to remove the lens as you shoot, so use a body cap and rear lens cover to protect from dust, fibers, snow, rain, etc. If hiking and camping, put the camera bag in the sleeping bag with you at night. When you’re ready to travel, you can use envelopes heat to warm equipment chemical in the bag before camera
transfer to a inside pocket. Do not be surprised that the heads and adjustable lubricated parts run slower in colder temperatures, such as lubricating compounds will thicken.

Avoid Condensation
Caches and UV filters should be snug but not too tight. Do not blow the filter lens or lenses, that your breath may freeze and be difficult to remove. Keep a warm, dry wipe handy for wiping the lenses and filters if necessary.

Batteries
Camera and flash batteries lose power more quickly in cold weather, so be prepared and carry spares. Essential to preserve the battery, autofocus keep to a minimum. Reset the camera to keep the short-time LED display. In warm and humid, close to zero or below zero for an extended period, the LCD screen may stop working. Usually, the rest of the unit continues to operate, and feature LCD will return after the camera has warmed.

Winter Photography
Make sure your exhibition stand, as the meters are not reliable in snow scenes. Use spot on the face or neutral colored clothing and items not covered in snow.

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Thoughts turn to the beauty of snow and ice when winter approaches. Winter photography can bring you great ideas and inspiration. Winter is the ideal time for photography. What remains is an exceptional blend of white and blue glazed. The result is a fairy tale, such as Winter Wonderland.

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You must have never seen this picture before, here’s Nicolas Dumont is a professional digital photographer, he invited some friends to have their photos under cold water and ask them to look directly into the camera and control their nerves.

The photos below (you may have never seen before) is a collection of photography that captures the natural rain reaction of his friends under a perfect shower. Enjoy!

Bounce Lighting, typically used in portrait photography is the lighting that bounces off a particular source (like an umbrella, a blank wall or drop down sheet) to surround the focus of light. Lighting rebound can also be created by reflecting light on a ceiling or a reflector aluminized. Overall, the pictures taken with the lighting of the current rebound central object or person in natural light. Bounce lighting is a form of ambient light, because, as the ambient light, the light illuminates the central object indirectly bounce a photo. Less light in the final picture tends to produce softer images potentially lower.

Nikon D4 Guts

The ultra-burly frame machined aluminum seems extremely difficult. We did not really hold the bare chassis, but the construction is apparent when you hold the camera real. Very robust but not heavy.

Even with minimal gear, the right combination of light, wardrobe, posing, camera settings, and post-processing can result in dramatic images that will make any woman look like a goddess bathed in soft, beautiful illumination.

1) Lighting:  If I have a big white wall or background surface to work with, I will usually point a strobe directly at it in order to blast the area behind the subject with light.

When I only have a small flash unit to work with, I’ll put it on Manual mode and set the flash to 1/8 power or higher, depending on the aperture and ISO I’m working with.  If you’re using more flash units, or higher powered strobes, you’ll have the luxury of smaller apertures and lower ISOs.

I’ll often place my flash at a distance somewhere between my subject and the background, out of frame, aimed toward the background at a 45 degree angle.  There are other effective ways to bath your subject in background illumination.

The main idea is to hit your background with plenty of overpowering light, or use light AS the background.  You don’t even need flash if you have enough constant or natural light to work with.  For example, bright natural light coming in through a window just behind your subject might do the trick with the right camera settings.

Do you need a main light or some other type of illumination for the front/visible side of your subject?  Some of that light will hit your subject on the camera side, too.

2) Wardrobe:  Wardrobe is always a good place to experiment.  But for this type of image, I’ve always preferred light and airy clothing and free-flowing hair.  A light-colored, sheer fabric works great as a wrap-around.  This type of lighting can also be flattering for nude subjects.

3) Camera Settings:  Naturally, camera settings are going to vary widely based on the type, power, and positioning of the lighting.  If your only real light source is coming in from behind the subject, the settings you use will determine the amount of overexposure you’ll achieve for the background, but it can also determine to what degree your subject will appear as silhouette.  In a smaller room with lighter-colored walls, an overexposure of the background light will allow your subject to be more visible under the lesser illumination of the light scattering back to her from the walls.

With your camera set to Manual (“M”), you have an aperture of f/4, an ISO of 400 and shutter remaining constant at 1/250, you are successfully blowing-out just about all the detail in your background at your current background flash output settings.

Next, you place your subject in the frame to take a test shot which produces a silhouette with very little detail on the subject.  Again, if using only flash, altering the shutter speed won’t be very helpful.

The latter, especially when shot with high ISO settings, can produce some intriguing texture because of the noise that becomes visible.  Finally, I will often clone out distracting pieces of the background if it’s helpful to the final image.

In areas with high concentrations of actors, dancers and other performers, headshots are the bread and butter for many photographers. You can easily create a studio portrait professional-looking as the one presented here with minimal lighting. For this quick example, I placed a Canon 580 EX II on one foot above and behind the camera-left of the subject, zoom to 105mm and aimed directly at the bottom of his head. The flash output was set at 1 / 32.

The main light was another 580 EX II at position 45/45, camera-right, with power setting at 1 / 16, modified with a translucent shoot-through umbrella. The flashes were set to manual and was called with PockeWizard Plus II. Canon 7D, 85mm f/2.8 lens at ISO 100, 1 / 250 sec.

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early days portrait photographers used medium format film and slow camera speeds. with the introduction of 35mm film, fast aperture and sync flash, photographers didn’t have to conform to those rigid posing techniques. though there are times when people are immobile, constrained poses may look fake to a modern viewer. a great part of my job in the studio is actually talking to people. I take a few pictures while still talking in a deliberate diversion tactic. if I can make the client laugh, then the real fun begin. when the client is relaxed, they’re gonna reveal their real persona and I’m gonna take the very best pictures.

mood is key in taking portraits. the only way you can create mood is through lighting. lighting helps the photographer project a very subjective perception of a person. many photographers have different approaches to portrait lighting but the objective should be to enhance a mood or modify it.  I shoot a few random pictures and give the client the camera so that they see themselves. while they’re looking at the pictures, I observe the expressions on their faces.  I check the picture number and make a mental note of it. I give some suggestions, take more pictures. the shoot proceeds at a frantic pace. I tell them that I don’t pose clients like a painter. I  let clients move as freely as space constraints allow and also within the range of the lighting setup. one hour goes very fast but nobody’s minding the time that much.

Sigma has announced two new lens for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) and Sony NEX system users. The lens are Sigma 30mm f/2.8 EX DN and Sigma 19mm f/2.8 EX DN featuring a newly developed linear AF motor that moving the lens elements directly without the need for gears or the drive of other mechanical parts.

The lens has Two glass mold aspherical lenses, including a double-sided aspherical lens which delivers excellent correction for all types of aberration. The Sigma 19mm f/2.8 EX DN has construction consists of 8 elements in 6 groups and a rounded 7 blade diaphragm to create an attractive blur to the out of focus areas of the image. It has equivalent angle of view as a 38mm (35mm equivalent focal length) on the MFT systems and 28.5mm (35mm equivalent focal length) on the E-mount systems.

The lens has three glass mold aspherical lenses to provide excellent correction for distortion, color aberration and field curvature. Comes with AF motor system, the lens gives an accurate and quiet autofocusing on the still images shooting even in video recording.

The objective is equipped with Vibration Reduction (VR) to capture sharper images when shooting telephoto subjects, two ED glass, ultra-fast and quiet auto focus operation. On a Nikon 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 VR Nikkor 60mm diameter measures 61mm in length with weight approx. 180g/6.3oz.

ED – Extra-low Dispersion Glass
The goal also use ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass to enable the production of lenses that offer clarity and color correction by minimizing chromatic aberration.

integrated coating
With SIC – Super Integrated Coating, the Nikon 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 VR Nikkor a better performance of its optical lens that reduces and flare to a negligible level.

IF – Internal Focusing
Equipped with technology developed internally, the Nikon 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 VR Nikkor offers an all internal optical movement is limited within the lens barrel nonextending.

Lens name Nikon 1 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 VR Nikkor

Lens construction 12 groups and 18 elements

Angle of view 29°40′-8°20′

Number of diaphragm 7 (rounded diaphragm opening)

Minimum f-stop 16

Minimum focus distance 1.0m/3.3ft. from focal plane at all zoom positions

Maximum reproduction ratio (35mm equivalent ratio) 0.1x (0.28x)

Weight Approx. 180g/6.3oz

Dia. x length Approx. 60 x 61mm (distance from camera lens mount flange when lens is retracted)

Filter-attachment size 40.5mm

Lens cap type Snap-on

Lens hood HB-N103(supplied)

Lens case CL-N101(optional)

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