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Photography Tips

Posted on February 26, 2010 | Filed Under Photography

Here are some quick tips that will do a lot for your photography from a great website, Digital Photography School. The first one is a common problem with volunteer photographers but can easily be corrected.

Portraits and headroom:

One of the most common mistakes I see photographers make is the misuse of headroom.

The bottom line is, don’t leave a lot of space between the top of the subject’s head and the top of the frame. Avoid the tendency to put faces square in the middle of your viewfinder where your focus brackets may be.

In order to capture the emotions of the face, start by getting in as close as you can. At times you may even chop off the tops of a few heads. Unless the sky is particularly amazing or the trees more fantastic than your average set of trees, don’t try and force getting the surroundings into your image. Generally the background should not be more prominent than the subject.

Read more tips at digital-photography-school.com

Thrive Marriage Conference

Posted on November 19, 2009 | Filed Under Audio, Events, Hardware, Photography, Visual

I tried to keep most people out of serving during the Thrive Marriage Conference. One reason is to allow couples to be together and not separated by having one serve in tech. Another is to keep singles from attending the event for obvious reasons. A third is it allows me and my wife to serve together. We began serving together in the sound room, AWANA, VBS and college ministries. Now I’m mostly serving in tech and every now and then she gets to come along and help. Here are some pictures of technology at the event (and a few others too).

Recent Purchases

Posted on October 15, 2009 | Filed Under Audio, Photography, Print

I’ve restocked some things we use regularly: Ink for the printer in my office; CD labels we put on sermon audio CDs, blank audio CDs, 2 2GB memory cards for the digital camera; and ribbon for the label maker.