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Beauty Headshots: Two Lights & No Background

Create beautiful headshots by learning techniques for two light set up and no background needed.

Getting great portraits with a single inexpensive 19″ ring light

Lights, lights and more lights.  As a full time wedding and portrait photographer I have a vast array of lights; 8 or 10 speed lights, 5 or 6 high powered strobes, half a dozen LED panels, 3 or 4 florescent... Continue Reading →

85mm Showdown: Zeiss Batis vs. Sony G-Master

If you shoot one of the Sony full frame mirrorless cameras, then adding one of these two lenses can give you the ultimate portrait shooting machine. Which one is for you?  If you've asked yourself that very question and still... Continue Reading →

The Exposure Triangle

Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO They work together to create an exposure and affect your image in different ways. If you missed the individual articles you can find them here: Aperture  -  Shutter Speed  -  ISO You can change the... Continue Reading →

A few quick tips for wedding shooters.

A lot of wedding shooters come to Action Camera to get their gear so I though I'd put together a little discussion about some of the things I think wedding shooters should consider.  Depending on your level of experience, what... Continue Reading →

ISO

What is ISO? It is the number that describes how much the processor amplifies the light collected by the sensor.  A higher number means the processor works harder to produce a correctly exposed image. Each step on the ISO scale... Continue Reading →

Shutter Speed

Inside your camera just in front of the sensor is a curtain that opens and closes to expose the sensor to light for a certain amount of time.  The amount of time that you choose will effect how the movement... Continue Reading →

Hope Valley – Landscape Workshop

In October last year we put on a 3 part landscape workshop. After the Saturday evening class instruction at Action Camera, everyone met early Sunday morning at Sorenson's Resort to shoot the sunrise in Hope Valley and practice the techniques... Continue Reading →

Understanding Aperture and Depth of Field

Aperture is a mechanism inside every lens that opens and closes just like your iris in your eye to let more or less light through.  Aperture is measured in f-stops and unfortunately a smaller # is more light and a... Continue Reading →

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