Episode 14

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

After some major hardware malfunctions, this week’s podcast is finally posted!

The show opens with a tutorial on shutter speed, where Stephen Poff demonstrates the benefits of both fast and slow speeds. He talks about using a slow shutter speed to create the ‘light writing’ effect as seen in his photo for April 2nd, and uses a fast shutter speed to capture motion, like in a jumping shot.

After the break, James Bruntz (aka Sick Little Monkey) joins Mav and Stephen to introduce his tip of the week, which will now be a regular feature included in the podcast. (Especially since on it’s own, the tip of the week seems to get MORE hits than the podcast itself… hmmmm…)

This week, James talks about how to use dramatic lighting in self-portraits, like he does in his Mr. Sinister set. He demonstrates how to do this using simple lights that can be purchased from any hardware store.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Since we talked about TTVs on the show last week, the podcast challenge theme was Frames and Borders. This week’s winner of Picture of the Week was Xelia, who called in to the show for the Valentine’s Day episode.

When you visit her stream to congratulate her, as I’m sure you will, also wish her a happy birthday!

The runner-up for this week’s Picture of the Week was a really creative shot by Sungazing.

We also wanted to add that in last week’s episode on TTVs, we neglected to mention the original founders of the TTV group, as pointed out to us by the real Queen of TTV, sadandbeautiful (Sarah). Mr. E. and Russ started the Through the Viewfinder group on flickr, which is full of great tips and tutorials for anyone interested in TTV.

Enjoy the show, and we’ll see you again next week! Don’t forget to take a picture or two this week using dramatic lighting to submit to Picture of the Week!

- jessi.
Master of the Show Notes.

This show has been archived HERE

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