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July 1st, 2009
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Impact of changing your focal length during long exposures »
This podcast explains how to change the focal length of your lens, to “zoom” during long exposures, in order to get interesting effects.
RECENT BLOGS
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July 3rd, 2009
A friend/former student wrote me with a great question. He wrote: “I have an opportunity to license some images to a travel company for their brochures. I’ve never done this before and therefore I’d love to get your quick opinion of what the right price range should be. The email below is from the director of communications from the travel company.”
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June 29th, 2009
With the announcement that Kodak is discontinuing its legendary color slide film, Kodachrome, I find myself frequently humming Paul Simon’s song about that film. Then I got to thinking about the film, which I once used in VERY large quantities. Finally, I came to consider the film’s successor(s.) Just like when the ruler of a country dies, he (or she) might be gone but the next leader is soon in place and most importantly, the institution lives on. That is how I see Kodachrome’s and photography’ continuing forward.
Read More »you came to bury Ceasar, not to praise him ;-) Read More »
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What exactly is The Wells Point? The Wells Point is a web site with video podcasts and free information for aspiring and accomplished photographers. These podcasts and other information have been designed to stimulate your creativity and improve your craftsmanship.
The phrase the Wells Point also refers to an important tool to better appreciate how light, time of day and the resulting light's direction can be utilized to immediately improve your photography.
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RECENT PODCASTS
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June 17th, 2009
This podcast shows the process of editing and critiquing a set of photographs of India, which were created by workshop students from the Objectifs Center in Singapore. The goal was to get from approximately sixty images per person down to about twenty images. The final twenty images should tell the viewer something about the photographer as well as how they experienced India.
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June 3rd, 2009
This podcast explores the important process “working” a situation, making a variety of images of a given subject, by changing the photographer’s position, the camera’s orientation, the focal length of the lens, etc.
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May 20th, 2009
This podcast portrays the chaotic nature of road traffic in Bangalore, India
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May 6th, 2009
This enhanced podcast introduces the viewer to the basics of capturing images for a time-lapse animation project, in this case while photographing a flower market in Bangalore, India.
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April 22nd, 2009
This podcast explores the experience of call center workers in Bangalore, India
