North Carolina photographer | Oak Island, Southport, Coastal NC
This week’s motivation comes our Sunday morning worship service.
It’s amazing, feeling the Holy Spirit surround you in the middle of praising the one and only God. Thank you Lord for loving each and everyone of us enough to send your Son to die for our sins.
Meet Justin.
Justin could be called a traveling man, he’s visited all fifty states, lived in Japan and told me that he even flew to Canada one time just so he could drive to Mexico.
Thank you Justin for being this Friday’s friend.
This week’s photography word is:
Histogram – is a graphical representation of the photograph being made, that allow you to quickly see if an image is over of under exposed. The histogram is very handy when doing test shots in bright sun, because it is often much easier to see than an image on the cameras LCD. In order to avoid lose any detail in the photograph the histogram should not climb up on either side of the viewing frame.
This weeks photograph is from a recent New Year’s Eve wedding.
They are an amazing couple and the getaway car was the popular Ramblin’ Wreck, which was very fitting because they meet at Georgia Tech’s orientation. More photographs from the wedding are on the Worley Arts site.
I get motivation from a photograph like this one, because it shows how fun the wedding day was and it incorporated how the couple met.
Meet Joseph,
I met Joseph a few years ago through a home-school group. He and his brothers even took one of our ballroom dance classes. He’s in a band now that I hope to have the honor of photographing one day. When I made this photograph he said that no one had ever been that close to him with a camera before.
Thank you Joseph for letting me make the photo and be this weeks Friday Friend.
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.
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.
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.
Meet 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.
This week’s photography word is:
Underexposed – giving less than normal exposure when making the photograph. This will cause the detail in the shadows of the image to be lost.
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.
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.