Recent content by Krichton

if you've never directed before it's going to be a disaster. Most people expect to be told what to do, simply because they have no idea. Directing takes experience, lots of it, and skill.

Hmm, what is your idea of cheap? You're not going to find any fish eye lens for less than $150-200, even the manual ones.

Indoors? Pretty much every time, especially if you're using a compact.

People who don't like being photographed make horrible models.

he's seven, he won't know the difference.

Buy used, there are tons of compacts out there that cost nothing. I bought a Panasonic LX3 recently for $52

If I'm just standing a few feet away then it should be more than enough. Even the pop up flash is more than enough in that situation. At the moment I don't have any working triggers, and I don't have a sync cord, so I've held off on the purchase. Not to mention I also have no one to...

Tutorials on youtube will not cover the technique I'm talking about. If they do it's buried among all those videos somewhere. What is your suggestion for how far away the flash should generally be from the camera? Fairly powerful for it's size I think.

I believe the flash has a wide angle diffuser built in, but that's it. I recently bought a used canon 550ex, which weighs about 18 ounces with batteries, and if I can't bounce I'm uncertain what purpose a flash like this serves at an event. This is what the flash looks like...

I've heard many extol the virtues of off camera flash, but this mostly pertains to studio work. Does this also apply to just holding the flash away from your body as well? I have started taking portraits at events, but only with a flash mounted on my hotshoe. Will a small, bare, manual flash...

Hard drives don't typically just "break." There'll be warning signs before this happens. Many times a hard drive will become corrupted and will appear broken since you can't even log into windows with it or slave it. In these situations the data is easily retrievable with data recovery software.

She got a television contract out of it.

On the contrary many kit lenses are fairly good, just not top notch. It's typically when you venture into the 70-300mm kits that quality begins to more uniformly bad among kit lenses.

From the comparison example I saw, there is clearly a case of barrelling when you use a 50mm on a FF as opposed to an 85mm.

I think distortion only appears when you use a 50mm on a full frame sensor, and I think that is where the complaints are coming from. Of course, when someone complains they won't always point out what the sensor size of their camera is, so this of course causes a lot of confusion.