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If you were in central Texas on May 15th, 2008 about 10:00 pm you were in the same storm I was in that threatened more than 70,000 people with a few tornados. Yea tornados! I was thinking to myself what the hell am I doing in Texas in a tornado and I am a kid from Bahamas who is used to hurricanes coming around the end of August. Anyways I was there and I won’t forget it because I went outside with my camera to remember the moment.

How To Take A Photograph Of Lighten In A Storm?

I took my Nikon D70 outside when the storm was about 10 minutes away from after I came off the phone with my best friend back home telling him to make sure he gets the photographs out to the world if I die ? but for real I took my tripod out, got real low to the ground titled the camera up about 45 degrees with the camera on blub and held it for a few seconds and after a few times I was able to get that shot.

Taking photograph of lightning in a storm is risky and some sort of luck is need as well ? Unless you pick up your camera snap at the sky and get a luck shot that’s worth millions; I am not very lucky so what I did was put a high f stop example F 22 to let less light into the camera put it on blub and held the camera tight with pressure on the tripod to prevent shake, I have a remote for the camera but it was no time for that. I love the photo not saying it’s the best in the world but I wanted to share with you all how I did it if you were interested in taking a photo of lightning some day.

If you have photo of lightning I would be happy to see them if you add it in the comment box or if there is a storm near you sometime don’t go out and get killed but if you do happen to get a photograph of lightning share in it the comment box here.

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In this video provided by SnapFactory blog of Digital Photography One On One you will learn how your lens choices impact your portraits. The video explains why the same lens for example the Canon 70-200 Lens what is a frickin great lens and used for sports photography can also be used as a great lens for portrait photography. The Cannon 70-200 f2.8L was recommend because it helps get rid of distortion and cluttered images but you can also try the Sigma AF 18-200 I shot with that lens on a friend of mines camera, watch the video and enjoy.

This photo was photographed by photographer Sam Javanrouh when he was testing his new, Canon EF 100mm f 2.8 macro lens. I recommend you trying that lens if you have get a chance. If you want to take a photograph of a butterfly I recommend that you go out and start shooting now while it is still spring. If I was to do it, I would make slow movements and hope for the butterfly to land on a flower the same color of it’s wings like this the one did in Sam Javanrouh’s photo. It will take some time before you catch that shot or you might just end up luck and get your perfect photo in one shot. The key to taking a photograph of a butterfly is to follow the butterfly moving slowly and staying low. Be a butterfly, try moving the way they do (As crazy as that shit sounds it’s true!) You want to make the butterfly feel as if you are with it and hopefully it will pose for you like that one did in the photo. Just remember to go out there and have fun!

You can post a photo of your butterfly in the comments here saying what you did or you can post with others on my I Love Photography facebook group and share your story.

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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Hello everyone! I am back off the boat taking photos; above is / was if you watched it already a video of me telling you how I carry my equipment when doing those types adventures when we go in the boat to take photos. Andrew the captain is also a ground photographer and I will be showing you a photo of his as well whenever he post it.DwayneTucker.com