Bob Woodfin Photography, CPP

Shooting Action Sports (considerations, indoor vs outdoor, daylight vs night)

November 30, 2014 • 1 Comment

Shooting action sports is a lot of fun and can be very rewarding when you get the shot. The idea of this kind of photography is to freeze the point in time where the subject is in the midst of doing something very exciting. This could be a football player catching a pass, a basketball player dunking the ball, a motocross rider taking a jump, a hurd...

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JPEG vs Raw - A Hot Topic

November 14, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Everybody has an opinion and I'm no exception. What I'd like to do is present the advantages and disadvantages of both shooting Raw and shooting JPEG and then let you form your own opinion. There are times that each of these are valid depending on what you are trying to accomplish. Hardliners would say it doesn't matter what you're trying to accomp...

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What is the Cam Ranger and Why Should You Want One?

October 31, 2014 • Leave a Comment

If you haven't heard of the Cam Ranger you really should do a little research on it. I learned about this little jewel at the Texas School of Photography in 2013. What first interested me was its ability to wirelessly show the images immediately on an iPad or laptop. Very cool. Sure you could tether but that requires a cord to drag around as you sh...

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Blending Modes? I don't get it. Part 2

October 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Last time I introduced the first two categories of Blending Modes (other than Normal). These were the Darken and Lighten categories. If you missed that discussion you may want to refer back to the post from September 30 where I introduced these most common used blending modes. You may also want to refer back to review how to create the image and us...

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Blending Modes? I don't get it. Part 1

September 29, 2014 • 8 Comments

Blend modes are really powerful and easy to use. You just need to understand a few concepts. One of the best ways I know to explain blend modes is through a demonstration, but before we really get into the demo, let me explain a little about how the blend modes are categorized. The first category starts with Normal which means that there's not a l...

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