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Dear subscribers and fellow learners/sharers,
Podcasts and posts are on hold for about 1 week due to a personal family tragedy (my mum passed).
I have much to post and share including a fantastic interview with a fine art photographer I met at Photo Expo in New York. It’s all on hold for about 1 week though. To those that have emailed me and posted on the forum giving me condolences, I am deeply touched and your wishes mean so much.
Sincerely,
Marko
Photography podcast #56 talks about how to photograph smoke. We discuss photographing different types of smoke including incense, outdoor smoke and liquid nitrogen. One note right away is that if you want to try this, it’s fun, but have patience. The incense image below took about 90 minutes from setup to finishing shooting. If you want to try this yourself, here’s what I used for the shoot; Incense sticks, black background, 1 portable off camera flash (with sync cord to fire it) a CUSTOM (smirk) homemade snoot made on the spot, from construction paper that went on the portable flash to keep light off the background and a reflector (not essential, but helpful and you can use anything white). Thanks so much to Clusty for this awesome suggestion!
Incense smoke by Marko Kulik
Monk in outdoor smoke - Image by Marko Kulik
Scary theme using Liquid Nitrogen - Image by Marko Kulik
Links mentioned in this podcast:
Post processing assignment forum
October Assignment #2 – Halloween/Horror
Thanks as always to‚ Susan who posted a blog comment about our last podcast. Thanks also to Jlindy, Captureevermore, mpykalo, lamar328, photocell, EJC, CB Photo and jcrystall who recently joined the photography.ca forum and posted a few times. We LOVE comments and suggestions so please send more.
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This was a straight shot of a little girl feeding the pigeons on an overcast day. I actually shot this before I recorded my last podcast. Talk about a twofer (two for one) 
. No flash was used and about 5 minutes of post-processing was done on this one. I really like the intense concentration on the kid’s face. She’s on a mission. I also like the duck in the background looking at what’s goin’ on. I think the duck is envious of all those sweet cheerios! As always, when photographing children it’s best to get a parent’s permission, which I did. If you wanted to sell a shot like this, you’d need a model release.
Pigeon Kid
This was a straight shot of a little girl feeding the pigeons on an overcast day. I actually shot this before I recorded my last podcast. Talk about a twofer (two for one) . No flash was used and about 5 minutes of post-processing was done on this one. I really like the intense concentration on the kid’s face. She’s on a mission. I also like the duck in the background looking at what’s goin’ on. I think the duck is envious of all those sweet cheerios! As always, when photographing children it’s best to get a parent’s permission, which I did. If you wanted to sell a shot like this, you’d need a model release.
Pigeon Kid
We have a new addition to the 2 monthy assignments already going on our forum. Photographing words is an assignment where you find letters made by ordinary objects. Then you shoot them and put the images of the letters together to form words. The word this month is Love. Many thanks to kiley9806 and morgan for their suggestions to start‚ this up on our forum. The first Photographing words assignment is Love and the thread is here. Here’s my contribution from that thread. Hope to see more people sign up and contribute!
Hey I took my wife shopping today - That's love. So what if I hung around the parking lot?
Photography podcast #55 talks about using actions to streamline your workflow. Actions are a set of steps that you record to transform an image in some way. Once you have recorded the action once you can apply it to any other image file. We also talk about commercial actions that you can buy that will totally transform your images. The 2 that we talk about are Kevin Kubota’s actions and Craig’s actions. I’d like to thank Kevin Kubota once again for giving me some actions to play with. The images below were all done with Kevin’s actions.
Top shot - straight; Middle shot - vibrant glow action; Bottom shot BW GM Warm2 +snappy action
Left shot straight; Right shot uses Anime soft action
Links mentioned in this podcast:
Kevin Kubota’s actions
Podcast #52 Kevin Kubota interview
Craig’s actions
Free photoshop actions search result
Photographing words assignment forum
Thanks as always to‚ Susan who posted a blog comment about our last podcast. Thanks also to gbh59, Michael van der Tol, justinmcguigan, pogueca, Fredric, DeepR, morgan, JoMama, fante, lily13, SMG, Wymasa, liammclennan, J & R Parent, and malechi who recently joined the photography.ca forum and posted a few times. We LOVE comments and suggestions so please send more.
If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca – Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. I Subscribe with iTunes I Subscribe via RSS feed I Subscribe with Google Reader I
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A few months back we started an assignment forum on photography.ca and this month the 2 themes are fall and Halloween-horror. Each theme lasts for 2 weeks and the Fall theme is first. I took this shot just yesterday on Mount-Royal in Montreal. I tried to go for something a little different. Did I succeed?
Please feel free to join our forum and submit your own assignments. It’s fun and a great way to get creative.
Oct. 2008 assignment on the Photography.ca forum
