I've been thinking about making some videos of my photoshoots.  I've already made one during an underwater shoot and I thought it might be cool to have some about full-moon shoots, the locations I use, answering technical questions and stuff.  Since I don't have a camera in my phone, I'm going to use my G9 to record it and use Microsoft Movie Maker (Since I don't have an Apple).  I don't have any shoots planned for a couple weeks though, BUT if you have some questions or recommendations for the new videos, leave a comment below or on my Facebook.

 

I've been going back through my photos to pick some images to use on my new business card design.  I like going through some of my older photos because sometimes I see something I didn't see when I first shot it.  When I first shoot I only see what I was trying to get, when I look at it again, I see what I actually have.  These photos are from a shoot I did in September 2008.  Emma is really good at giving a lot of different looks: sexy, innocent, funny, playful, sad. I'm not sure why she hasn't appeared on a fashion magazine yet.

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I've been asked about pixels, inches, and dpi a lot lately so I came up with a little analogy to help people understand.  When a photograph is opened and you go to image size, you find out the image has a certain size in inches, and a dpi setting, but what does it all mean?

Put simply, pixels are peanut butter spread.  How much peanut butter you have is like how many pixels you have.  The photograph has an attribute to it for inches and dpi, but all that says is how big a piece of toast you're going to spread the peanut butter on.  The dpi is like how thick it goes on.

If you have only a little bit of peanut butter and you try to spread it on a big piece of toast it won't be good.  Basically, it's always good to work on the full size versions of photos because otherwise, it's like throwing away peanut butter.  Now if you up size an image, it's like adding in a filler.  But like imitation peanut butter filler.  A little won't be noticed, but if you use too much, it won't taste like peanut butter anymore.  Same with an image.  Too much upsizing and it won't look good.  Also jpeg artifacts could be more problematic, especially if you didn't save the image at full quality.

What does all of that boil down to.  Focus on how many pixels you have in the image.  Most photographs are 300 dpi (pixels per inch).  so if you have an image that is 9000 pixels wide, then you can print it 30" wide without having a crappy looking image.  Don't worry about the inches and the dpi listed in photoshop.  That only matters when you try to print directly inside photoshop.  If you use anything else to print, only the amount of pixels will matter.

And that is how pixels are peanut butter

 

Another attempt at shooting in the full moon, but this time I figured I would shoot during a storm.  I thought I would either get a full moon or a cool rain storm.  Things don't always turn out one way or another.  Sometimes there's an inbetween.  Like 2 minutes of rain and no full moon.  Regardless, I still managed to get a decent shot even with the little amount of light.  Had to cut to the shoot short due to tourists.  Why do people have to awkwardly find an excuse to get close to check out the naked girl.   

 

 

I got to shoot Natasha again, but this time underwater.  I also had the chance to shoot her with Adrian, the synchronized swimmer (more of those shots coming soon!)  Here are the first two photos and a video with some clips actuallying going underwater.  I added the Firefly music to the background cause it was the only thing I had to cover the background sounds.

 

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