Recent content by drsilver

Back when I was using film I used an incident meter, always. It's just the way I worked. These days I still carry a little Sekonic 308, but with the dynamic range and post-processing capabilities we have available, I don't use it much. Still, there are times when I take an incident reading, or...

I was driving in the mountains today and a thought popped through my mind, damn, day-old plowed snow is ugly. I should try to make a picture that tells that story. Here's what I got with where I was and what I had to work with. I may try this again if we get some snow closer to home.

Orchards and Vineyards in Winter

I keep telling people, embrace the gray. Use the soft light instead of fighting it. The key is to find the shadows. Even on the dullest of days, shadows make images pop. Nicely done images.

Most cameras write shutter count to the EXIF data on each photo. So, most of the free counting apps and websites just scrape the count out of the image's metadata. Starting with the Digic 6 processor in 2013, Canon stopped putting that data point into EXIF. Now the only way to get at that piece...

This is a good long read. I'm fairly new at this and I was looking for a photo-sharing site. This article convinced me that Flickr is where I should be and that, while they're happy to host us for free, we should probably be pitching in for storage and upkeep if we want this project to succeed...

Yeah, first one. I've found that when there's a question between include more or include less, include less is almost always the answer.

You probably could have worked in a reflector if that's part of your game. But I think you nailed the rimlight. My only suggestion would be to pay attention to your backgrounds when using backlight. The first shot, where you're above her, the background complements the light well. The last one...