Bob Woodfin Photography, CPP

Getting Started With The Photoshop Interface

March 04, 2018 • Leave a Comment

If you’re new to Photoshop, or dabbled just enough to get really frustrated, welcome to the club. It’s very daunting at first because there is so much there. My experience is that the best way to approach it is to start very small and take a few things at a time. Once you get comfortable with the littler things you can begin to take on bigger more...

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A Basic Review of How Cameras and Lenses Work

January 18, 2018 • Leave a Comment

Whether you are just beginning in your photography or a seasoned veteran it’s good to get a grip on how cameras and lenses work. In this post I want to give you a fairly high level understanding of the mechanical operation of these. DSLR’s (digital single lens reflex) cameras are designed to allow you to see, in real time, what the sensor will rec...

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Key Principles to a Good Portrait

January 12, 2018 • Leave a Comment

There are so many things involved to creating a good portrait that it will be hard to include everything in a single post. Probably many of you will think of additional important elements that have been missed, but I hope to include the basic things I think will be most helpful. The first things that come to mind are those things that are importan...

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Principles of Shooting With Flash

January 11, 2018 • 1920 Comments

Before we begin to specifically talk about flash, we should have a short discussion about light in general. There are three basic principles of light you should consider in any situation. First, let’s talk about the color of light. You probably know about white balance but we should include it in the discussion. It can be particularly important wi...

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How F-Stops work

September 08, 2015 • Leave a Comment

So you're always hearing photographers talk about stops of light and making changes to exposure based on that to get certain affects, but you never really understand what they're talking about? Well I thought I'd give you a little bit of a discussion on how this works so you can, at least, be in the conversation. If you think of F-stops, or stops...

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