Upcoming Shoot with Ella
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Ella - Oahu, December 2007
I just got the word that Ella will be on Kauai and she wants to shoot with me again. You’ll remember her from a shoot I did last December. She was one of the first models I worked with and I credit her as indirectly helping me to figure out the difference between glamour nudes and artistic nudes. So I’m stoked to be working with her again. she is a tremendously talented model and beautiful to boot! She’s also fun to work with. The shoot will be on Kauai, an Island I don’t get a chance to go to very often, so it’ll be fun to work with her again and go to an amazingly beautiful place. I can’t wait
One of the things that have come up lately in my shooting is that I keep coming up with shots that are just a little bit blurry. It’s just enough that when you look through the viewfinder or on the camera’s preview screen, it looks sharp. But once you get it on the computer it’s not. It’s been bugging me a lot since I got the new lens. The other day I finally figured it out. Since the viewfinder on my camera is smaller than ideal, I use auto focus to make sure that my shots are sharp. Well, one of the settings on my camera, which is called “Shutter Priority Release” allows the shutter to fire before the camera is finished focusing. So it looks like the camera is done focusing! I take the shot. It turns out that the camera wasn’t done and I get slightly blurred images. Arrrg!
For the upcoming shoot with Ella. I’ll be shooting with this feature turned off. It might slow down my shooting a little but in the long run I’ll be getting shots that are consistently sharp. I’m hoping that this will help me get sharper images. I’ve already tried everything else I can think of at this point. Shooting with a tripod, making sure that my shutter speed is not lower than the focal length of the lens..etc etc. So we’ll see in a few days whther or not this will work…
