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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Wild Art: Photos of The Happy Bullets, an abandoned gas station and Starck

By Laura Seewoester

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This week our Flickr community has shared some pics from the Cultural District in Fort Worth, a nice snapshot of The Happy Bullets at Club Dada and more from the world's largest beach ball. Oh yeah, and happy voting day. Listen to the jack-o-lantern and get to the polls (unless you voted already, you clever devil).

Tips and Tricks

I know that using a flash when there is plenty of available light sounds a little backwards, but a flash actually has multiple uses during the daytime. Fill flash is the most obvious, where you pop the flash while shooting into the sun so your subject doesn't look like a silhouette. Another issue I run into is uneven lighting, when your subject is partially shaded. Don't be fooled! Many a times I have thought uneven lighting (ie: sunlight through a tree) was very pretty until I get back into Photoshop and realize the big bright spot or shadow across someones face makes for a horrible picture. A quick fix: pop your flash. You may need to play around with it a little and brighten or dim the flash (if your camera allows). This will even up the lighting so you don't end up trying to photoshop shadows out of a photo. Even when you are shooting in broad daylight, don't put your flash out of sight, out of mind. Even a usually-useless pop up flash will make a difference.

Without Flash. (Thank you staffer Justin Smith for striking a pose)

Photo by Laura Seewoester

Without Flash. (Thank you staffer Justin Smith for striking a pose)

With flash. Not the best example in the world but you get the picture. (No pun intended) Notice how not only is the lighting on his face more even, but his eyes are more lit up and any lines on his face have been softened. This was taken with the pop up flash on my camera. If you're really going for a nice portrait as opposed to an evenly lit snapshot, it might be worth the extra effort to pull out the big flash and match the strength of the flash to the available light.

Photo by Laura Seewoester

With flash. Not the best example in the world but you get the picture. (No pun intended) Notice how not only is the lighting on his face more even, but his eyes are more lit up and any lines on his face have been softened. This was taken with the pop up flash on my camera. If you're really going for a nice portrait as opposed to an evenly lit snapshot, it might be worth the extra effort to pull out the big flash and match the strength of the flash to the available light.

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alexander troup

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This is another great place to land on election night, lets see, until then. A.T, Election party man.

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