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Stopping That Sun Flare - 07/14/08 09:57 AM
Have you ever shot an exterior house photo and you get that lens flair spot? This is from strong light entering the lens at just the correct angle and bouncing till it hits the sensor, making circles, sheets of bright white overlay or covering the entire image and thus lowering the contrast.
There are a couple of ways to remedy this. First, use your lens hood. This is the round piece of plastic that extends past your lens, that comes with most lenses when purchased. Not always the best, for we are using a wide angle lens that tries to capture … (1 comments)
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Some Potty Humor in DC - 07/10/08 12:26 PM
This was not a listing of ours but I had to show. This home on Sherier Pl. NW, Washington, DC was built in 1920. I would have felt this would have gotten renovated off but there it stands, in the capitol of the United States a home that still has an outhouse. The second part of this I found interesting was that to flush the toilet, you just lifted up the seat and the jobs done.
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Staging for the Camera – 1. Remove Objects In the Foreground - 07/09/08 01:47 PM
This is another simple trick to making a room shot look better- move objects that are very close to you in the foreground out of the shot. A vase, flowers, or lamps, will just dominate the photo and detract from the room; the reason for this is the extreme stretch perspective of the wide angle lens. Just like the back of a spoon, the objects closest are exaggerated and the background objects are far in the distance. Two problems occur from this. First you make a non significant object the focal point, and 2 you hide the room you want to … (10 comments)
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Buy Rechargeable Batteries or a Battery Pack for Your Camera Flash - 07/07/08 11:20 AM
Rechargeable batteries are not as inexpensive compared to regular batteries, but in a few uses they will pay for themselves many, many times and a lot greener. I myself use a battery pack called a Quantum that gives me two weeks of mass shooting un-failed with a fast recharge. It is a rechargeable pack that screws in to the bottom of my SLR camera, they also carry an over the shoulder like purse style. Both can be purchased at most camera stores or online. When you are not using them for the camera put them in toys or other devises that … (5 comments)
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Fact Sheet Verticals ~ A Part 2 - 07/03/08 10:22 AM
This is part 2 of Shoot Horizontal When Possible, I posted 6/24/08. Now to talk about when you have to have the vertical. When creating a fact sheet, as opposed to using a lesser photo (bathroom, hallway or detail) as one larger vertical put two vertical photos close together to make one horizontal, to keep consistent with the size of the other images. But a great shot is always a great shot and always highlight in size the best points of a home.
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Maid Of The Month ~ Pat Kennedy - 07/03/08 09:18 AM
At our office every month we give accolades to the top sales of the month. The honor is called Maid of the Month. We do not keep a board of who has done what and how many, we just have our Tuesday meeting, the broker announces who was the top that month. Then it is my job. It is my job to come up with a fitting immortalizing poster for that individual. Every month a different concept. It started with art posters, meaning known works from renowned painters through time. Now, I am on a movie poster kick. For the past … (1 comments)
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Digital vs Offset for Production - 07/02/08 12:09 PM
As per my last blog, I use a Konica Minolta c6500. I love it. Very infrequently do we do offset for projects, except business cards and some local guides. I do have a few agents that do overprinting. Meaning they get a template done offset in large, 1000s of numbers to get the colors of their logo and branding nailed, then I just print over that. Offset meaning using a printing press with inks as opposed to digital, the copiers that most of us use in office. We lease ours and the pricing is great, for in-house costs- $.065 for a … (3 comments)
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Call Boxes ~ Mount Pleasant, DC - 07/01/08 01:03 PM
In Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC in the summer of 2004, nine call boxes were converted from their useless state of decay into pieces of art that convey the area's history in little dioramas created by sculptor Michael K. Ross in a program called "Art on Call." The boxes show time periods of when Indians inhibited the area, through the civil war to the present. The two I have chosen are "Casualties Arriving at Mount Pleasant General Hospital, May 1864", and "Mount Pleasant street, 2004."
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