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Safe Shot, A Little Known Rule of Photography

ByGary Culley 2015-07-092019-01-25

It’s in the can, in the pocket and safe in the pocket. Got it. So what am I talking about? It’s the safe shot. There is a need in picture-making to get an acceptable photo in a given photo situation. It needs to be safe and secure because anything can happen that alters your picture…

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Photography, for the most part, was easy for me. BUT, there were and continue to be exceptions. HDR was simple except for a few small techniques. This became "Lost Lessons of HDR". Metering was something I grew up with, it seems so simple. Then I realized and started teaching the different metering modes as a way to learn the different situations that call for specifics of metering. This became the "Don't Shoot Manual". Wedding Photography seemed so basic in the day's workflow and it just grew as I did more and more weddings. The shot list was never a part of my shoot days because it was all so well organized. That organizing became the article "Wedding Photography Shot List in PDF, Excel & Numbers and the accompanying package of spreadsheets of the dynamic shot list.

Lost Lessons of HDR - clears the way to creating your best imagery.

Wedding Shot List - Dynamic organizing of the wedding day shoot

Don't Shoot Manual - Learning the basic differences in the metering modes of your camera and which one to settle in on.