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after one has learned the rules, then one can have fun learning to break them

Tiffany & Ronnie

Every session, I shoot a frame out-of-focus. It’s fun! It’s become something of a personal project for me over the last couple of years, this collection of blurs. Tiffany and Ronnie are an exceptionally striking couple, married in a candlelight ceremony last weekend. I was 2nd shooting for the very fun and talented NYC photographer…

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Lesson 4: exposure review

This image, my friends, is an example of first learn the rules, then learn to break them. Relax. Today is a fun day, lesson is a review, assignment is relevant to a festive American holiday. Going back to last lesson’s extra credit question: Originally, our goal wasn’t to change the exposure ratio by lightening or…

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defocusing

defocus verb ( -focused , -focusing or -focussed, -focussing) [ trans. ] cause (an image, lens, or beam) to go out of focus : the filter lets you defocus all or part of an image. ••• At the beach, for example, on vacation: why focus? Watching my husband toss a football to our son requires…

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Me Danny P

Dan is a Groover, a member of a group of my husband’s best friends from The Zoo (they call it); he’s a happily married father of two; he’s a pilot; he’s the son of a cancer survivor; and he has a brain tumor. I wanted to photograph him, and he indulged me by showing up…

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