Backsplash on a Budget: Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz' Water Angel

The best compliment I can give to a photo is to think of it as a "stopper," meaning that it absolutely demands your full attention when you first see it.

A couple weeks ago I made a quick trip to London to serve as a lighting consultant on a very cool photo project (more on that later). While there, I worked alongside Polish photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz -- not even realizing at first that he had been the one who shot the last "stopper" I had seen.

And even better, he did it with a minimum of gear and buckets full of creativity. Read more »

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What White Balance for Flash Photography?

Strobist reader Gabriel Bratescu, of Bucharest, Romania, asks:

"What white balance setting do you use when you shoot with 1/4 CTO filter, flash or sunny? I find that my indoor pictures that I shoot with Flash WB tend to be a little to warm so I shoot with flash but with Sunny WB."

Great question Gabriel, and the answer comes down to global color control vs. selective color control. Read more »

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BrakhaX2: Sketchy Mondays X 52

So, remember the Sketchy Mondays project, by father/son team Moshe and Eddie Brakha?

A refresher: Totally self-generated, no-boundary work done every Monday by an A-List commercial studio. Just for the creative spark; just for the hell of it. All of this done with a DSLR and few complementary-gelled hot lights. (Yeah, I know it's not strobe. Just go with it.)

Check out what happens when you say, "What the hell, let's just shoot something cool on our own, every single week," by scrolling through a few pages on the Sketchy Mondays website. Awesome stuff.

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Emily Knudsen's Baby Veggies

©Emily Knudsen

By David Poller -- As a Boston-based commercial food photographer, Emily Knudsen likes to make sure the groceries are the star of the show. But for a class assignment while still a student at the Hallmark Institute of Photography, bright and silvery metal was on the menu. Her task was to shoot a shiny metal subject so the light would flatter and define, not distract and overwhelm. 

"No reflections," she was told. And while technically photography depends on light reflecting off something, the point was to shoot a highly reflective metal subject without having the light source show up on the subject as harsh highlights. In essence, the assignment was about controlling specular highlights. Read more »

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On Assignment: Theresa Daytner, Pt. 2

Having shot the section front photo of Daytner out in the lobby, we quick-walked the lights into her office area. Working from the back and by swapping just one light mod, we were able to get something pretty different for the inside pages. Read more »

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Learn Java in Easy Steps

Here are the alternate short links :

1. http://tinyurl.com/6595flq
2. http://tighturl.com/3k34
3. http://goo.gl/XgDlx
4. http://tiny.cc/fsamn
5. http://bit.ly/pcy8uB
6. http://is.gd/fT62DJ
7. http://url.ie/dbl3
8. http://snipurl.com/17t2v4
9. http://doiop.com/c9eg33

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Learn Core JAVA in Easy Steps [Page 5]

Conditional Constructs :-

1. Switch
2. If
3. If Else
4. If Else If ladder
5. nested If

Looping :-

1. While
2. Do While
3. For
4. For each

--> Switch :=

switch(expression){

case 1:

statements;break;

case 2:

statements;break;

.... 

default:

statements;

}

--> If :=

if(condition){

statements;

}

--> If Else :=

if(condition)

{}

else

{}

--> If - Else - If :=

if(){

}else if(){

}else{

}

--> Nested If :=

if(){

if()

{}

}

--> While :=

while(condition){
}

--> Do While :=

do{}while(condition)

--> For :=

for(start, end, condition){} 

--> For Each :=

for(String Devharsh:array)

System.out.println(Devharsh);

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