Last update: Part III – Selective Control of Exposure (added on 15 June’07)

Steve Barnes, a professional portrait photographer and co-owner of Hayley Barnes Photography in League City, has written great tips on lighting for portrait photography. He writes about Behavior of Light, Controlling Exposure within the Camera, and Selective Control Exposure;

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I. BEHAVIOR OF LIGHT

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Business2.0 Magazine has published an article on how the giants of the stock photo business (ie. Getty Images and Corbis) are being challenged by the “microstock” agencies.

“Unless they adjust to the new reality, however, the giants could find themselves in trouble. Getty (Charts) has been profitable since it was founded–last year it took in more than $800 million in revenue–but magazine advertising is in decline, as is the demand for its kind of high-end photos. During the past year, Getty’s stock price has taken a dive, dropping from $90 a share at the start of 2006 to just over $50.”

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Ellen Boughn has finished the third part of her keywording tips for Microstock Photography at Dreamstime;

“Colors: Only use words describing color if the color is prominent in the image, Don’t describe all the colors in a plaid shirt, for example, Use a keyword describing clothing if it is a prominent feature of an image and the color is a solid color. Example: Blue would not be an acceptable keyword for the image on the left but is an important keyword to the image on the right.”

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Ellen Boughn has finished the second part of her keywording tips for Microstock Photography at Dreamstime;

“Overall Impression. First, get a general overall impression of the image and note the words that come first to mind:
• What does the image “say” to you?
• What is the image about?
• What is in the foreground?
• What is the biggest element?
• Which element has the most impact?
• What is the major element regardless of how much of the overall image it physically takes up?
• Ask yourself why would someone want to download the image. This may differ from why you made the picture. “

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Ellen Boughn has posted some keywording tips for Microstock Photography at Dreamstime;

“We often see still life images of bottles of wine with the keywords drinking and drunk. If someone drank the wine in the pictures above they might become drunk. But there is no drinking going on. Drinking and drunk are bad keywords for these images and will produce a less than optimum search result.”

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If you’re a stock photographer or just selling stuff on Ebay, you might want to take a look at the D-Flector, a portable studio backround on a briefcase. All you need to do is open the case and put it on the top of a desk with your product on it. When you take a picture with your digital camera and flash, the reflective background illuminates with the flash, giving you an ideal white background for your product. No need to buy those expensive lighting equipments or tabletop.

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Most folks might try using a tent or umbrellas of some sort to photograph a coin but what about a beam splitter? A beam splitter is a piece of glass that can have 60 percent reflectivity on one side and 40 percent on the other. This is angled in between the coin and the camera lens roughly at a four five degrees. A light is placed parallel to the studio camera’s film plane shinning against the glass and reflecting onto the coin. You can actually watch the coin lighting using tungsten lights as you change the angle tilt of the glass. Find the lighting suits you best and click.

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