Category: Tech Talk
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Importance of Cold Backups
As a wedding photographer, any news about a backup failure grabs my attention. The most recent world wide-spread failure of Western Digital My Book Live’s drive made us wonder about how many wedding photographers worldwide may be using such consumer systems as their primary backup for their work. Hopefully none. Technically, the fault was not…
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Instagram’s influence in panoramic wedding photographs
Popularity of Instagram, or rather – popularity of the smart phones with vertical screens – has affected panoramic or horizontal or photos shot in landscape orientation. Not to be confused with landscape photography (it’s own debate). In favor of posting images on Instagram Stories and to maximize a viewer’s screen real estate, a vertical photo…
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Building my own computer as a creative professional
On the flip side of technology-rich cameras that we have been wielding on our shoot days, the other 90% of the time are spent in front of a computer working on those same images for our clients. I have always had a love for computers and have purchased custom computer systems from ultra high-end builders…
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Low light wedding photography – Persian beauty in a car
There is a reason why good photographers look like they’re always dancing with their cameras glued to their faces. Here’s one result from our tango with gorgeous Persian bride Mahnoosh photographed near dusk in a very low light setting. Two very different images set apart by only a few inches. Which do you like better?…
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Removing DJ
OK, so we don’t mean literally removing the DJ. Let us explain – wedding photography is not true photojournalism in the sense that photoshop is used plenty. Even though we capture authentic moments, we also use tools to ensure that the reality is closer to our client’s dreams. Here is a simple example where we…
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Protecting Wedding Photographs
We’re going to start our New Year’s post with the single most important thing for wedding photographers – or any photographer for videographer – backing up and protecting your data. On Google News, I have a customized news-feed on “Wedding Photographer”. As a news item, there are too many sad stories that pops up on…
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Photographer Insurance
Wedding photographers are invited to amazing locations to photograph a couple’s special day. Resorts, hotels, private homes, beaches, mountain tops, churches, warehouses, wineries, restaurants, someone’s backyard, boats, and list goes on and on. In hotel or resort weddings, the venue manager will ask the photographer (and other vendors) for insurance certificates. When we worked in…
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Retouching Ceremony Picture
In this world of advanced digital imaging, retouching photographs have become faux pas. This has been true in photojournalism since authenticity of the original image is vital in telling the true story. Most recently, France has made into law where photoshopped or retouched photographs must be labeled with a notice. The spirit of this law is…