Ken Worley Photography

North Carolina photographer | Oak Island, Southport, Coastal NC

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Photography Word Wednesday

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This week’s photography words are:

Exposure Compensation – Gives the user the ability to tell the camera to overexpose or underexpose the image so the photographer can control the appearance of the photograph. Today’s cameras are very smart, but don’t know which part on the image you are wanting to be the main subject. This is where exposure compensation can help. Photographing a person standing in front of a very bright background without exposure compensation would cause the person to be a silhouette.

Motivation Monday

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This is a special Motivation Monday sorry it is a little late, but we don’t get to play in the snow very often here.

SnowDay

Today is also my oldest daughter’s 16th birthday. I think five inches of snow in GA is a awesome present for her.

I love my iPhone, the freedom of being able to make a photo while playing in the snow without the worry of where to put my camera while we sled.

Friend Friday

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Meet Allison,

Allison

I first met Allison when she was the Cowardly Lion in a Wizard of Oz play with Kathryn. Now she is good friends with Lindsey as well. I guess you could say she is friends with the entire Worley family. Allison is taking guitar lesson so I ask her to play for us a little while she was visiting. Sorry, Allison for the out of tune guitar, but thanks for playing and being on my Friend Friday post.

Motivation Monday

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What we do when it’s raining outside and we don’t feel like getting wet to make a photograph? That’s when we transform our living room into a photography studio.

With a little inspiration from a few 1940’s images, we decided to play with lighting to achieve the same glamorous style from that time period.

1940’s photographs use at least three lights; a main light, a fill light and a hair light. We only used two lights; a hot-shoe flash with a 40 degree grid as the main light and an unmodified hot-shoe as a rim light. This is how the images came out.

LipstickJamie

There is some what of an advantage when it comes to making a great portrait in our house. I have a beautiful wife that is willing to redo her hair and makeup to be the model for some of the  little lighting projects we want to do.