opinion, technique - Saturday, September 4, 2010 11:27 - 0 Comments

Lightmetering or Chimping?

The answer is “it depends”.

Chimping is supposedly an acronym for CHeck IMage Preview – an alternative to metering by looking at the monitor on the back of your camera.

Most of us accept the fact that modern cameras have a built in lightmeter and we use it in whatever mode seems appropriate for the situation at hand. There are Aperture Priority, Time Priority, Program, and several other modes that allow photographers more or less control of the final image. Most cameras also allow to adjust automatic exposure by one or two stops to compensate for very bright or very dim subjects.

news - Aug 17, 2010 19:10 - 4 Comments

We are finally up and running …

Hello World and welcome to all photographers and who else is interested in the art of photography.

I have been pondering about the idea to start this blog for a long time because I was asking myself: what do I have to offer that other people might want to read about? But then I found during discussions with my friends and fellow photographers that I might be on to something. And wasting a few megabytes on an existing web server does not hurt anything either.

What I’m planning to do here is post some of my ideas about the making of photographs, about techniques and style not to forget the rants and raves about things that either touch or bother me. Not that there isn’t already enough of that out there on the web. But somehow I find that people writing blogs about photography are holding back, not giving the full story or stopping right at the point where it gets interesting. Right there they refer to a paid workshop where you can get the whole story.