michaelyorkphotography

I don't have the means to afford an additional camera body at the moment, nor do I feel the need to dedicate an entire camera to Infrared photography.

 

I do, however, love the way IR photography looks, and I spent a bit of time playing with PS to make my photos look like IR photos. I've found, that, by opening the chanels mixer, and moving the reds from the red channel to the green channel, and the greens from the green channel to the blue channel, then carefully balancing the blues between the blue and red channels, I can make relatively attractive looking IR style photographs.

 

Not real, but not bad considering how easy it is.

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I agree with L E. He would appear to offer (first time I'm seeing it) many good approaches, but every example picture I saw there reminded me of all of the horrible author pictures on the back of every novel from the 1960's until recently.

 

ya h, if you're really interested in learning to get wedding poses down, I recommend spending a lot of time looking at good and bad poses from photographers on this site. Because the same pose can't always be duplicated for everyone and have the same effect. Body type, face shape, and other features can have an impact on the manner in which you pose someone.

Your photos are good, particularly of the cars. I like the layout of the site, but the layout and colors don't stay consistent, and that's frustrating. Example: From the Home page to the cars page, the dark header at the top goes away, and the the white content portions of the site turns gray. The slide shows load very slowly. As far as the slideshows themselves go, they're very nice. The thing you need to remember though, is that a potential client isn't going to need all the meta data that pops up (and hides your image!). Copy all of your text into Microsoft Word, or something similar, and let the grammar and spell checker go wild. There wasn't anything glaring, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

Honestly, I think it's a great foundation that needs a bit of tweaking.

 

The primary concept you need to remember when it comes to a photography site is less text, more pictures. Keep the loud/contrasting colors to a minimum. Allow your work to stand out on the page.

Actually, Frank, Matt was correct, as long as his charger has a trickle charge feature. The purpose of keeping the battery in the charger longer than necessary is to make sure the battery maintains charge. Because as soon as a rechargable battery comes out of the charge it begins to discharge. Not drastically or quickly, but it does happen.

 

If the charger does not have a trickle charge, and does not have an auto shutoff, then you would be correct, and that charger would be a fire hazard, as overcharging could then occur.

Peter, you're right!

 

I am embarassed. I've been using that flash for quite a while now, and never realized it swiveled. I just went over to it to check it before I responded to your post, and it spins exactly like I thought it couldn't.

 

I ammend my original post to Eric! Don't waste your money on the SB-800 unless you need the advanced features.

I own the SB-600. It's great, one of my best investments for my setup. The only thing I wish it had was a swiveling head for when I'm taking portrait, oriented photos. That's one thing the SB-800 has, that I really feel I'm missing out on. But I, personally, couldn't justify the extra money, just for that.