Where have I been?

You may wonder where I have been for the last little bit. Well, I will tell you, I have been creating copious amounts of new digital material. I am a huge fan of screen capture when it comes to tutorials and such. With that in mind you might wonder what I have been working on. Well, it has been tutorials to teach high school students how to build webpages and how to edit images in cool and interesting ways. The internet if full of cool resources, and for me it is about exploiting these resources to their fullest potential. I wanted to give you a list of great sites to visit and get awesome photoshop tutorials from. My first one is psdtuts.com. This website is chaulk full of cool step by step tutorials. From building people out of aluminium to creating fantasy worlds we would love to live it. Check that one out. The second is picturesocial.com. This site has a number of images from a variety of shooters that make you think. Some are awesome, some are average - again, all from the point of view of the viewer. My third site tonight is from a photographer who is amazing at what he does and resides in my neck of the woods. Check out www.robertbrayphotography.com. A great guy and a great photographer. These sites are sure to provide inspiration for you on a visual level.

Tomorrow's post will focus on podcasts that have had a great impact on me.

Bride at Dusk

LanceBurnsPhotography.com

Hi all.  Today I wanted to show a bride image taken here in Edmonton this past weekend. We had a great day of shooting and as the evening progressed I looked outside and noticed a great cloud passing over. With a setting Sun in the West and the clouds in front of that Sun, I saw an opportunity to capture a great image of the bride.  The specs of this shot were 1/4000 of a second at F/3.2.  That was the numbers used to properly expose the sky. The flash was fired to illuminate the bride (balanced at F/3.2) and the lighting pattern was loop lighting.  I used an SU-800 on the camera to fire the off camera SB-800 flash I was holding in my left hand.