Tip of the day

Hey Everyone,

Sorry been a while with the post had some RL things to deal with but now I'm back.  I thought I'd do a quick tip of the day. This one has to do with focal length and shutter speed.

So I'll get right into it. This is an beginners guide for people who may just purchased there DSLR or want to know a little more about there camera.

The most important thing to know is that your shutter speed should always (in most cases) be higher than your focal length. Example. Say you have a 35-300 lens and you are focused at 50mm. Your shutter speed should be 1/60th. If you are shooting at focus length 100 mm then your shutter should be set to 1/125mm. Why you ask.

 The anwer is simple. It has to do with your Cmos sensor in your camera and the way it picks up light. If you have it under your focus length then more light is let into the sensor and you get blown out pictures.

 Anyhow Hope you found this informative. I'll try to post on a regular basis. Take care and have fun shooting!!!


Jeremy Dimichina

Welcome To my Blog :)

Hello Everyone.

 My name is Jeremy Dimichina and I have been in photography for about 6yrs. I want to thank you personally for visiting my site and in the months to come I will have plenty of material from reviews of equipment to hints and tips on shooting out of "Auto" mode and show you the benefits of shooting in other modes as well as other fun stuff :)

 If you want please leave me a question if you have any about photography and I'll try to respond as soon as i can.

Katrina shoot

This first photo I decided to talk about was a picture of a nice model named Katrina. I wanted to talk about what went into making this shot. The first thing you should know is that I used natual light with a white lightning flash with a soft umbrella that I shot through. My camera of choice was the EOS 5D Mark II using 70-300mm is usm lens. The focal length for this shot was 80mm at 1/60th sec at f 4.0.

The original background was a white wall. I decided to give it a more dramatic feel I went into photoshop and created a black background. I then changed the image to black and white however I left a very slight warm gradient over it so its not exactly black and white. I then made a duplicate copy and changed the mode to soft-light. I did some dodging and burning very lightly on lips and chest area.

I added an extremely soft vingette around the picture so her upper legs were cast in a bit of shadow. I'm very proud of this picture and I have to say The model was fantastic. Very professional and fearless. That is something that is very important on posing. The bigger the risk the higher the result. She was willing to try anything and am very grateful for that.

I actually entitled this picture Smooth Criminal as to me it had a very michael jackson type quality to the outfit if you ever watched the music video. I hope you found this informative or at least entertaining. I plan on writing about a lot of photography topics including reviews of equipment, photos of the day ect. I wanted to get something up to get going.