Foreground Middleground Background & Strobe Modifiers

Details: Written by Gregory Cazillo; Category: Keep Shooting! Mondays; Created: January, 07 2013

Episode #1 of Keep Shooting! Mondays is here! I'll be answering your photo questions, talking about some equipment and starting new photo assignments.

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The first photo assignment is on Foreground, Middleground & Background. The goal of this assignment is to help your composition skills. Here are the rules for the photo assignments

Photos must be taken during two weeks after assignment is given to be eligible to be featured in the YouTube video and blog post.
Only photos posted to the forum will be considered for the video.
One forum post will be used for each assignment.
The entire presentation of the photo counts, that includes post processing, ugly watermarks, etc.
Submit as many photos as you like, only one will be featured in the blog post and YouTube video

Keep shooting!

Hoover Dam

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0 # Lance J. Reha 2013-01-07 10:29

Great video Greg. As always, learned something new! I do have a question, I was out shooting some 'landscapes' of the NY harbor. I used a 12-24 f4 lens. My problem seems to be, what do I focus on, the city in the distance, the water closer to me or somewhere in the middle? I want everything in focus. Also, what setting in my d5100, single point etc? Thanks, keep the info coming my friend!

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0 # John 2013-01-07 12:07

Have you done any video's about flash photo's please?

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0 # Jon Lloyd 2013-01-09 02:38

Greg has done a couple of Flash photography videos (that I have watched):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHpmd0-1ZyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMS9GNug_Wk

Regards

Jon

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0 # Gregory Cazillo 2013-01-09 12:13

I have a huge series of flash videos planned!

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0 # DR.Albert 2013-01-07 12:49

The Hoover Dam B&W is fantastic. How much post work was done on it vs using a preset?. I am a Lightroom 3 user and my B&W conversions are not as shark and vivid as your dam.
Hopefully, you can talk more about B&W techniques in 2013?

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0 # Jon Lloyd 2013-01-09 02:39

Greg has a couple of Lightroom Presets for B&W although I think they are more for portrait shots.

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0 # Jon Lloyd 2013-01-09 02:45

Apologies.. hit enter too soon, I was also going to say that I would recommend Photoshop over Lightroom for Black & White as you can use adjustment layers ... CS6 now comes with a B&W Adjustment layer. I am guessing that this was what Greg did with the Hoover Dam shot - right Greg?

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