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About five afternoons ago, I was going to be walk the beach and shoot some nature life to see if I would be able to enter it in the Bahamas, Family Guardian so that it would be in the 2009 Calendar, still didn’t get a chance to do that; Thank God I changed plans! Reason why I say that is because the photo speak for its self.
I was so happy with this photo shoot however, I still haven’t had the chance to place it on the front page of my gallery on DwayneTucker.com but I will get around to that.
I must admit that I feel as if this photograph was my best after the photo named My First Photo of 2008. I was using the new facebook chat and I saw a model, a friend of mines who I knew would do the job just right, messaged then she agreed to shoot with me, again everything was successful.

Why Do I Love The Photograph So Much For Me To Post It To Teach You How To Take A Photograph Of A Model In The Sun Set? I am going to explain in a short paragraph.

If you take a look at the photo you will notice the compliment hues of orange and blue; if you take a look around on my blog will know that I love the hues as well. To think about it if you looked to the bottom right of the photo that sun set area could well be another photo. I love the way the wind took her hair, the way the SPEEDLIGHT SB-800 tilted up at a 45 degree angle with RPT set at 1/128 illuminated her legs on the left and the sun casting a shadow of the models left hand towards the eye of the left eye of the viewer. I also love the way the trees became silhouetted, the power of the ocean in the shore; the gold heals at the bottom of her shoes balancing the sun, the way the dress folds graceful like roman garments and to strengthen the photo also adding some angles in it the wood at the bottom.If you found anything that you disliked with the photograph or that you like and I didn’t mentioned or you agreed with please list in the comments. This Photo Already Gained Over 30 comments on the facebook group I Love Photography, Please take part on this site to comment on it as well - Dwayne D.C. Tucker II - If you like my blog please Subscribe to it I will be posting as much useful information as I can.

Readers who have Subscribed to this blog or even joined my I Love Photography facebook group that now has 259 members and displaying 529 photos, would know how much I love photography and how passionate I am about it. I use the group to comment on photos and help people with their photographs as well as some of my officers. The photograph was taken by group member, photographer Kimberly Knowles. I commented on Kimberly’s photograph and told her how much I love it. She agreed that I can write about it on my blog and now I want to share with you how to take a photograph of a traffic light explain the reasons why I love the photograph.

Firstly what do I love about this photograph? I love this photograph because if gives you a feeling as if you are there, it makes me feel the temperature of the weather, it portrays depth from the overlapping objects, the traffic light being yellow it self and yellow being the most dominant color sets and interesting focus point and reason why I love this one so much is because she captured the the light on red and the brain knows that the red light means to stop. I feel as if it was on green it would make the photo feel a lot busier. I hope this information I shared with you helps you if you ever decide to take a photography of a stop light, hopefully you will take what I said that makes the photo great into consideration.

A little extra? After this photo was taken I would tweak it a bit in Lightroom even though the lighting is nearly perfect for my eye; after that I would export it to Photoshop and use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove the green mark in the bottom right.

Reading Nytimes.com this morning I came across an ad I wanted to share with you, all because this is a blog to update you with photography, advertising and photoshop. Here is the copy and a photo that caught my eyes and I will explain why.

LOVE is all you need, Subaru declares in a push for its 2009 models — along with all-wheel drive, a safety pedal system, low-emission engines and an environmentally correct plant.

Besides the great TV AD that I high recommend you taking a look at, I love when images are displayed with impeccable ambient lighting.

How To Shoot A Photograph Of A Car?

Looking at this photo it seems to me as if the photographer shot this around 6:22pm or so to capture the lighting style that left the long shadows as shown. The theme to show for the ad was love and I feel as if the art directors captured just that. When shooting cars or anything really you want to get a theme that connects subjects. Looking at this photo the mind will remember times of a couple near a cliff in a car and the orange-reds from this photo reflects romance.

I hope you enjoyed this photo as much as did and hope you will take a look at the ad it’s self.

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Today was a long day for me. For those readers who don’t know, I am the president of a company in the Bahamas named PicBloom; we sponsor a charity named “A Little Help From My Friends” their visual media. I stated that because I feel as if what I did today would be helpful for some of my readers. The task for today was to take some photos at the Salvation Army, Nassau, Bahamas; Usually this would be a job for my employees to cover because I focus more on the advertising, marketing and client support, I prefer to shoot organized photography to capture emotions out of models strictly as a hobby for DwayneTucker.com photography development, however, my love for photography is to strong to turn down todays offer and my main photographer is in Colorado so I did the shoot:). In this post you will be reading how I approached taking photographs of people who were
uncomfortable.Rule number one: Inform the people of what the photographs are for.

I got to their base about 11:20am or so to meet with the lady in charge there and she introduced me to the managers of the area where I would be shooting. I started taking photographs in the soup kitchen to test lighting etc. and I used a Nikion D70 with a SB-800 flash attached at 1/8 in the kitchen but where the food was being served I dropped the flash down to 1/16 so I wont over expose. Many people around the table were uncomfortable from the second they walked in the door when they saw me standing in the room with my camera, so when everyone sat down and was settle I told them that this was for charity purposes, some agreed to have their photographs taken others didn’t but you will get that. Besides you only want to shot people who wants to be photographed take unless you are going after, discomfort, to be portrayed in your photos intentionally.

Rule number two: Fit in with the crowd

After a few minutes of me being in there sharing jokes with the people they adapted to me; I am always polite to people with manners so that gave me some slack. So I am stating be respectable and fit in!

Finally Rule number three: Have fun!

As a photographer you have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing. A lady seriously didn’t want her photo taken and I respected that, I went over showed her the camera let it see that it wont hurt her and let her know that I didn’t take a photo of her. We made jokes and over all the day turned out to be another good one.

Remember to have fun, fit in and respect others when you are photographing people who are uncomfortable.

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Everyone looks up to someone, me I look up to the legends in the advertising industry because only God knows how much I really want to leave a mark on the world known from Advertising. To be specific to day I am sharing with you all who are interested advertising another update on David Ogilvy, I give him my full respect and hope my work is known like his some day (I will ).

In this video David Ogilvy quotes, In the advertising community today there are two worlds, your would of direct response advertising and another world, a world of general advertising. If you have a few minutes and want to expand your knowledge in advertising please watch the video. TAKE DIRECT RESPONSE SERIOUSLY.

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I found this video on you tube and I wanted to keep my watchers and readers updated…I haven’t been posting because I am working on a new look for the DwayneTucker.com sites… please hang in their with me :)….This video is for those interested in Fashion Photography!

I am writing this article because I am mixed up in the making of my life. So much has been going on with me the past couple of weeks, it seems as if everything that could possible happen to me good and bad is just falling on me like a domino effect. Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago I took a trip over to Lubbock Texas and I shot some photography while I was there; When I was in the jeep driving I was able to take the shot and I was surprised when I uploaded it on the computer how straight it was. I played with this photoshop in cs3 for a bit to see if I could make a somewhat cartoon effect. It would be real cool one day if I could have my own cartoon..I think:)
The first photo is the edited one and the second one is the original. This was just and experiment I was playing around in photoshop and the effect may seem to be a bit easy as to something that can be done quick and I agree but I still took note to every key in the photo making sure my colors etc were on point for my taste. Leave a comment on it if you want and let me know what you think about it.

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