I’m multi-tasking through the Photocamp session at Northern Voice 2008, but wanted to capture some of the tips here.

• Tim Bray on high-end pocket cameras:
  • small cameras can be taken everywhere
  • pocket cameras will not have all the great featurs of an SLR, but you can get some
  • ignore megapixels – more is not better (above 6 is bad) based on limitations of the other parts of the camera
  • prime lenses are more versatile
  • recommended site: the online photographer
• Alex Waterhouse Hayward
  • cloudy days are your friend – you see more shades of color
  • do not light your subjects directly – how you light your photographs makes the biggest impact the quality of your final photos
• Novak Rogic
  • HDR – shadow detail
  • create a ‘world’ panorama photo with a tripod, a landscape, then stitch together with autostitch
• Duane Storey
  • selling photos via smugmug
• Miranda Lievers shooting portraits in natural light
  • shoot down (more attractive) with soft window light (no hard shadows)
  • Doorways also give directional soft light
  • sunshine as hair light
  • lamp light
  • urban light
  • if the light is not ideal, change the position of your subject to do something else and catch the light in a more flattering way
  • shoot upward in high noon
  • change your exposure for creative effect
  • use light patterns for artistic compositions
  • hard, directional sunlight at sunrise or sunset
• Presentation on flash use from jerkwithacamera.com

Minus a few presentations, and a day later, am now ready to post this. So much for multi-tasking!

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