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Here’s the Blog
The topic below are offered as an extension to the Lumenique web site, and offer some ideas an insight into how I work and what factors come into play in photography of vehicles and other subjects related. Enjoy. Please feel free to comment or contact me directly about anything you find compelling here.
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Best Time of Day and Locations for Automotive Photos
If you want to realize the best results from any photography, lighting must be taken into consideration as the most important component to the process. The accepted periods when the lighting is most conducive to high quality imagery is as follows: Golden Hour Morning. This is a period of between 40 and 60 minutes just…
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IAP Professional Photographer Course Completion
I just completed the IAP Certificate Course for Professional Photographer. You can never know enough or learn enough. While I’ve owned businesses for more than 20 years, the photography business is a significant departure from prior business entities, so I am investing in learning the industry from experts.
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Hall of “That’s a Shame” Wreck Images
Since 2020, I have been doing inspections and photography of salvaged auction lot vehicles. While hardly a fine art, the exercise is interesting and definitely challenging, as weather and light conditions are rarely ideal Another aspect of the work is seeing expensive toys in a state of sadness. These are a few of my favorite…
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Action Fun
I have always like B&W images in action photography. In this case, I caught the chaos of a fumble in a Navy vs. Air Force game. I have no idea why the dude in the middle was jumping upward, and am guessing that neither did he. I was known at the time for catching embarrassing…
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Film Experimentation
In the days of film photography, I experimented with super-slow ortho/litho high contrast film. It was never intended to capture grey scale images, or action, but when forced, it created some interesting images. In this example, I found the combination of exposure time, super bright daylight conditions, a tick of camera motion, and a wide…
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The Wonders of Enhancement
Bringing back old print photos and making them useable in the digital universe, for sharing and printing is one of the wonders of the modern age. In this example, the image was not only recovered, but made more attractive through the use of various AI based image processors and some diligent tuning.
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The Light we Covet
There are two phases of light we covet as humans. Bright blue skies and sunsets. In this case, both were captured from a beach on Guam in 1978, within an hour of one another. This is what makes tropical islands so magical.
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Cropping and Digital Files
Cropping digital images presents an effect on image quality that was not as prevalent in film image capture. When using film, photography using low ASA of 64 or less created a foundation of clarity and fidelity that facilitates cropping and a very extensive range of image output sizes. Further, when digitizing a film original, cropping…
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Smart Phones and Digital Imagery in the World of Photography
The emergence of the smart phones and advances in related camera technology has put the capability of capturing good quality images into the hands of virtually everyone. The smart phone delivers everything the disposable film cameras did many years ago, with the additional benefit of instant processing, and ease of sharing. The movement toward digital…
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