Comments for Through My Lens http://www.hanganimage.com/blog A photographers journey Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:26:58 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Have a photography question? by Hing http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=94&cpage=1#comment-26 Hing Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:26:58 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=94#comment-26 There is no such thing as a lame question. Clean your camera as you need to. No less, no more. I used my D200 nearly every day for a year and in that year it required only one sensor clean. I attribute this to the following behaviours 1. Always changing the lens sensibly (indoors when possible, never at the beach or in windy conditions) 2. (weekly) Cleaning the body of the camera paying attention to dust around the lens mount. (This dust often gets sucked into the body when you zoom out with large zoom lenses) 3. (weekly) Keeping lens caps, body caps and rear lens caps clean and dust free What does everyone else do? 4. Always facing the body down when changintg the lens. 5. (weekly) checking the rear mount of lenses for dust. 6. Always do a dust and sand clean of body, lenses, caps, lens mount after every beach or desert shoot. 7. Check the sensor for dust regularly (weekly is good) by taking a picture of a blank white wall or blue sky. If there is dust use your cameras dust cleaning system or a blower to get it off. By checking weekly you ensure that any dust on the sensor has little time to "cement" itself there. Most current SLR's do a dust clean everytime you turn the camera off so this may not be as necessary. There is no such thing as a lame question.

Clean your camera as you need to. No less, no more. I used my D200 nearly every day for a year and in that year it required only one sensor clean. I attribute this to the following behaviours

1. Always changing the lens sensibly (indoors when possible, never at the beach or in windy conditions)

2. (weekly) Cleaning the body of the camera paying attention to dust around the lens mount. (This dust often gets sucked into the body when you zoom out with large zoom lenses)

3. (weekly) Keeping lens caps, body caps and rear lens caps clean and dust free

What does everyone else do?

4. Always facing the body down when changintg the lens.

5. (weekly) checking the rear mount of lenses for dust.

6. Always do a dust and sand clean of body, lenses, caps, lens mount after every beach or desert shoot.

7. Check the sensor for dust regularly (weekly is good) by taking a picture of a blank white wall or blue sky. If there is dust use your cameras dust cleaning system or a blower to get it off. By checking weekly you ensure that any dust on the sensor has little time to “cement” itself there. Most current SLR’s do a dust clean everytime you turn the camera off so this may not be as necessary.

]]> Comment on Have a photography question? by Kate http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=94&cpage=1#comment-25 Kate Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:01:34 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=94#comment-25 Thanks Hing...Ok so my question is rather lame to start the ball rolling but i just wanted to know if i am supposed to get my camera 'serviced' at all or cleaned every year or anything? I have had mine for about 7 months and its going great, just wanted to make sure i look after it properly.... Your blog is great and id love to do a course on the 'sunset' thing if you have any more coming up. :) Kate katescakesncookies.com.au Thanks Hing…Ok so my question is rather lame to start the ball rolling but i just wanted to know if i am supposed to get my camera ’serviced’ at all or cleaned every year or anything? I have had mine for about 7 months and its going great, just wanted to make sure i look after it properly….
Your blog is great and id love to do a course on the ’sunset’ thing if you have any more coming up. :)
Kate
katescakesncookies.com.au

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]]> Comment on Photography – A way of connecting by admin http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-16 admin Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:43:06 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38#comment-16 Hi Christian! Yeah have always had a flair for the written word but it is the sharing I enjoy the most. Hi Christian!

Yeah have always had a flair for the written word but it is the sharing I enjoy the most.

]]> Comment on Photography – A way of connecting by Christian http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-15 Christian Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:57:15 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38#comment-15 Hey Hing! Nice site and blog. Love to write too, hey? Christian Hey Hing!

Nice site and blog. Love to write too, hey?

Christian

]]> Comment on Dealing with Dull Stage lights by admin http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-14 admin Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:38:49 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32#comment-14 hmmm...again...that depends on what you want the shot to look like. If you want background and ambient light to fall away into darkness then yes, increasing shutter speed and dropping ISO will do that. Stronger spots may just as easily complicate your metering in this situation. It would all depend on where you were pointing your camera. I almost always shoot in manual mode when shooting stage lit subjects. The light environoment is so dynamic and volatile that any attempt by a camera's metering system to correctly expose a scene is nearly a roll of the dice. I also almost always shoot with the flash "off camera" on a light stand or taped to a ceilng beam. When on a stand you can move your flash angle to avoid casting shadows to background etc. I have never actually read any textbooks on use of flash so i can't recommend any. I learned mostly through trial and error, talking with other snappers and reading other blogs and bits and pieces from flickr. Mostly playing around and methodical experimentation. I'll put together a quick excercise for you to do when I have a bit more time...flat out for the next week. In the meantime try shooting with both camera and flash in manual on a set subject in a dimly lit room. Play around methodically, but keeping in mind that 1. changing shutter speed affects the exposure of ambient light only 2. changing aperture affects both flash and ambient. hmmm…again…that depends on what you want the shot to look like. If you want background and ambient light to fall away into darkness then yes, increasing shutter speed and dropping ISO will do that. Stronger spots may just as easily complicate your metering in this situation. It would all depend on where you were pointing your camera. I almost always shoot in manual mode when shooting stage lit subjects. The light environoment is so dynamic and volatile that any attempt by a camera’s metering system to correctly expose a scene is nearly a roll of the dice. I also almost always shoot with the flash “off camera” on a light stand or taped to a ceilng beam. When on a stand you can move your flash angle to avoid casting shadows to background etc. I have never actually read any textbooks on use of flash so i can’t recommend any. I learned mostly through trial and error, talking with other snappers and reading other blogs and bits and pieces from flickr. Mostly playing around and methodical experimentation. I’ll put together a quick excercise for you to do when I have a bit more time…flat out for the next week. In the meantime try shooting with both camera and flash in manual on a set subject in a dimly lit room. Play around methodically, but keeping in mind that

1. changing shutter speed affects the exposure of ambient light only
2. changing aperture affects both flash and ambient.

]]> Comment on Dealing with Dull Stage lights by Robert Brindley http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-13 Robert Brindley Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:37:26 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32#comment-13 On this particular occasion I had little chance to isolate the subject as it was a small stage in a pub and I was no more than three mtrs from her so my decision to open up the aperture was purely to give me a faster shutter speed. My question is concerning whether I should have concentrated on increasing my shutter speed in Tv mode, reducing the ISO and rely on the flash to take care of the exposure, and at the same time minimising the effect of flash on the background. I would assume then that I would pull back the flash level either by deflection or some other method. I would also assume that a provision of stronger spots would take care of the metering. Normally, on the majority of my work, this is provided. Can you recommend any publication on flash theory but mostly practice? If I can first take care of the technical aspects I can then concentrate on the creative elements. Thanks for your continuing patience. You can see a couple of shots from the session <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brindleyimages/3592373194/" rel="nofollow">here</a> Rob On this particular occasion I had little chance to isolate the subject as it was a small stage in a pub and I was no more than three mtrs from her so my decision to open up the aperture was purely to give me a faster shutter speed. My question is concerning whether I should have concentrated on increasing my shutter speed in Tv mode, reducing the ISO and rely on the flash to take care of the exposure, and at the same time minimising the effect of flash on the background. I would assume then that I would pull back the flash level either by deflection or some other method. I would also assume that a provision of stronger spots would take care of the metering. Normally, on the majority of my work, this is provided.
Can you recommend any publication on flash theory but mostly practice? If I can first take care of the technical aspects I can then concentrate on the creative elements.
Thanks for your continuing patience. You can see a couple of shots from the session here

Rob

]]> Comment on Dealing with Dull Stage lights by admin http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-12 admin Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:51:48 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32#comment-12 Difficult to answer that question in a real world context becasue there are so many variables to consider. Not the least of which being "your vision". Tell me more about the environment. 1. How far away was your subject's background? 2. Do you want to keep some of the ambient light or black everything but the performer out? 3. How close can you get? 4. How close can you get your flash to the subject? Difficult to answer that question in a real world context becasue there are so many variables to consider. Not the least of which being “your vision”.

Tell me more about the environment.

1. How far away was your subject’s background?
2. Do you want to keep some of the ambient light or black everything but the performer out?
3. How close can you get?
4. How close can you get your flash to the subject?

]]> Comment on Dealing with Dull Stage lights by Robert Brindley http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-11 Robert Brindley Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:28:52 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=32#comment-11 I had very little light to work with on Monday night so the Auto ISO setting on the 5D gave me 3200 but on AV mode my shutter speed was maybe 1/15 sec -1/20 sec/ Not enough for shooting on the fly. I was using the flash. Now this is where I get confused with this sort of lighting situation. If I choose to shoot in Tv mode, say 1/60 sec to prevent blur the aperture value in my viewfinder is flashing, obviously telling me I will be under-exposed. Do I ignore that in the knowledge that the flash will take care of the light? AS I said flash theory and practice are not my strong points. I am OK when spots give me some light. On this recent shoot the subject remained a constant distant from the lens. It was me moving about and zooming. Can you expand your the Fstop practice. I prefer that my DOF is shallow to isolate the artist. Do I then concentrate on the shutter speed, reduce my ISO ( for clarity) and rely on the flash to keep the exposure ? I had very little light to work with on Monday night so the Auto ISO setting on the 5D gave me 3200 but on AV mode my shutter speed was maybe 1/15 sec -1/20 sec/ Not enough for shooting on the fly. I was using the flash. Now this is where I get confused with this sort of lighting situation. If I choose to shoot in Tv mode, say 1/60 sec to prevent blur the aperture value in my viewfinder is flashing, obviously telling me I will be under-exposed. Do I ignore that in the knowledge that the flash will take care of the light? AS I said flash theory and practice are not my strong points. I am OK when spots give me some light.
On this recent shoot the subject remained a constant distant from the lens. It was me moving about and zooming.
Can you expand your the Fstop practice. I prefer that my DOF is shallow to isolate the artist. Do I then concentrate on the shutter speed, reduce my ISO ( for clarity) and rely on the flash to keep the exposure ?

]]> Comment on Photography – A way of connecting by JPN http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-10 JPN Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:16:41 +0000 http://www.hanganimage.com/blog/?p=38#comment-10 LOL... Sure thing Hing! We should do that. I'm not a huge fan of Heidegger actually. Membership to the Nazi party, neo-Luddite regard for technology and his almost interpenetrate prose (which reflects a desire to return to the pre-Socratics in thought and in writing style) are a couple of reasons. However (after a couple of wines!) your post reminded of that essay. Fundamentally, he is raising questions around how technology may alter or experience of the world. LOL… Sure thing Hing! We should do that.

I’m not a huge fan of Heidegger actually. Membership to the Nazi party, neo-Luddite regard for technology and his almost interpenetrate prose (which reflects a desire to return to the pre-Socratics in thought and in writing style) are a couple of reasons.

However (after a couple of wines!) your post reminded of that essay. Fundamentally, he is raising questions around how technology may alter or experience of the world.

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