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Super efficient in-the-field SLR photography workflow

David Kaspar — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:51:00 +0000

You are probably reading this because you take multiple photos of each scene and situation to make sure at least one will turn out sharp and well exposed…. Well I do!

Modern cameras have huge memory cards; 128GB isn’t uncommon. While this is very convenient it also creates massive amount of unnecessary data.

You end up with hundreds of photos (if not thousands) while “in the field” or any other situation without access to a computer to offload the photos.

This could be while on a holiday, on a multi-day shoot or if you simply don’t want to transfer all those photos only to delete them shortly afterwards.

100% zoom is your friend. Use it in combination with easy scrolling to weed out any obvious duds. Look for sharp eyes, open eyes, no unwanted motion blur, overcropping (a missing foot or arm), good composition and faces actually facing the camera.

Lock the good photos to narrow down to 1-2 photos for each subject/scene.

“Delete all” to quickly weed out the unwanted shots. This will delete all unprotected photos leaving you with only the good ones. I aim to delete half of the photos in my first pass. I sometimes do a second pass to delete another half.

Do not use the format function as this will also delete the protected photos!

One downside with this workflow is the larger battery drain since the screen is on for a long period of time.

Well done! Now you only have a quarter of photos to transfer to your computer and further work on in Lightroom!

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Finally a good weekend

David Kaspar — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:37:56 +0000

Most likely because I did not open the work laptop a single time.
Visited the current Lee Miller portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Lee Miller was a (female) model cum photographer during the first part of 20th century.
Through her relationships she came into contact with a range of artists and was able to take many intimate photographs. Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Fred Astaire, Colette and Marlene Dietrich being some of those artists. If you are interested in history of photography the exhibition is worth the £7.
London’s Brick Lane is famous for it’s many curry houses. A good friend of ours had arranged a charity dinner event at a one such curry house. The event was well organised and a respective sum was collected for the cause but I will not be going back to Nazrul 2 Tandoori and Balti Restaurant any time soon. The food was bad and the service was worse.
Finally caught a flick as well, have been missing the silver screen lately. Les Choristes (The Chorus) is a touching story about group of boys at a boarding school and how a new supervisor changes their lives with music.

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Colour vs Black and White photography

David Kaspar — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:28:19 +0000

One recent subject was photographed both in black and white (with an SLR camera) and in colour (with a digital camera).
I think that showing them next to each other highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the two different mediums.
Here are some more black and white photography images to feast your eyes uppon.
The black and white photo is moody and the focus is on the subject, shadows and composition.
(28-80mm, Canon EOS5, Ilford 125 FP4)
The colour photo more impresses with its range of colours and nuances.
(~35mm, Sony DSC-FX77)
Due to the low resolution, I don’t think the example highlights differences in digital format vs. 35mm film.

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Water and stone

David Kaspar — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:20:33 +0000

I have always liked water and water sports, ever since my dad insisted on me learning to swim at the age of 4.
Whenever I feel stressed or depressed the one thing that helps the most is a couple of laps in a swimming pool.
Recently I read that Cancers are affectionate to water and it made sense.

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Two friends in Hyde Park

David Kaspar — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:07:43 +0000

Canon EOS-5, Canon 28-80mm, f/5.6, Ilford 400 Delta Professional B&W Film
I associate this composition with two friends, one chubby the other tall, one early Autumn morning.

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Rooftops in Krakow

David Kaspar — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:15:17 +0000

This view is from the The Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland. It was quite late and I was lucky that there was enough light to capture the roof tops with the moon in the background.
Of course I used the self timer to avoid motion blur, just like described in earlier advice on low light photography.

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Old meets new

David Kaspar — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:13:38 +0000

Hidden in the back streets of East London you will find some breathtaking views.
Like the proud remainders of a 14th century building with a futuristic 21st century tower in the background.
Once there lived one of London’s richest business men in the old building; now the modern tower is occupied by a multitude of offices.

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Evil Baby

David Kaspar — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:11:33 +0000

I friend (Pedro) pointed me in the direction of a photography manipulating tool called FaceFilter. It lets you change the facial expressions of a subject fairly easily by using a set of default templates.

While you would be able to do most of the tricks in your favorite photo editing software, FaceFilter will let you do the manipulations much quicker.

You can also discover some things about facial expressions that you might have realised before.

I tried the 7-day trial and had loads of fun with the “evil baby” below, see for your self.

Original baby	Angry baby	Chubby baby
Making a face	Making another face	Mean baby
Not my baby	Sleepy baby	Young (?) baby

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