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  1. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    Ha! Probably helps that my time and resources aren't funneled toward kids and whatnot. :)
  2. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    The key to using on-camera and off-camera flash is to just get out there and do the work, figure out the fundamentals. Start with one flash source to get a feel of what that light source does, and then learning what light modifiers produce what kind of light on your subject. The main lesson to...
  3. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    I quit engaging in most of the photography forums a long time ago. Experience is the best teacher. Just go out and shoot and shoot some more. Trial-n-error teaches you things that simply reading about doesn't. Muscle memory allows you to skip the conscious actions needed to nail the shot...
  4. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    Maybe it matters to those who shoot portraits, and want the cleanest file to work on before doing retouching on the file.
  5. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    Canon FF (typically) are native ISO 100.
  6. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    Yeah, a real eye-opener as to the true cost of simply moving to a new camera body as a lot of overhead costs get added to the mix if you've been running on an older system altogether. The larger sized files add to the data storage overhead twice fold (or quad-fold if I ended up saving both the...
  7. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    :dance::rock::drum::banana::dancing-banana-04::rolling-smiley:
  8. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    So, I also have a pair of Canon 5D3's, and they are getting old in the tooth in some areas (average 100k clicks on them by now, I think). The lure of Mirrorless is there. Almost dipped in when the Sony A7III came out at the $2k price point, but a friend got that Sony A7III, so I tried it out...
  9. Patrick Sun

    What do you want to understand better about photography?

    Expose for the ambient light for the background (after settling on your DoF before taking the shot, and no external lighting/flash in the shot), and then adjust your foreground lighting with a few more test shots, 2-3 shots after making adjustments to the flash power after each test shot will...
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