AI skin retouching. It’s become so obvious and terrible lately when I see it. It gives everyone a uniform grainy texture and washed out facial features
DrinkableReno
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This is largely good advice. But shutter speed affects ambient light with flash. For the reason you said. The flash goes off at 1/1000th and then a slower shutter speed can allow additional ambient light to expose the background more.
Try it out, it's a fun trick. Take a picture of something in your poorly lit house but like have a kitchen light or something on further away. Start at 1/250, then lower the shutter as far as you can one 1/2 stop at a time and watch as the kitchen gets brighter but your subject stays the same since your aperture hasn't changed.
This is relevant for OP because he can either kill the background at 1/250 or show it at 1/60. But the action and people directly in front of the camera will be largely the same with the flash.
This comes up, especially with temperature imbalances. You can kill ugly lights with faster shutter speed. Slower shutter speeds means you often get two light temperatures, which can look ugly.
It never stops being awesome to see your own work in print. Keep it up!
As a photojournalist and also corporate professional, this number varies greatly.
Shooting photojournalism you can shoot from 20-100 shots in an assignment, maybe 300 if you're rapid firing speeches or events (not including sports) and 1-3 go with the article. But now everyone wants a dozen choices and a photo gallery, so you have to up your game and produce more. I turned in three recently and got begged for my rejects and they ended up publishing six in a magazine out like 20 fairly bad choices.
I went to Iceland and shot 3,000 photos in a week, got home and probably liked 300, but 12 went on the wall.
But then I went to Arches National Park yesterday, shot 158 pictures (50 were for a panoramic HDR to be fair) and I've just now produced 4 total pictures for showing off and I'm pretty sure I actually like 2 of them.
I shot an all-day event last month and had two cameras, so I shot like 6,000 because I was chasing a lot of kids around the park, getting vendors interacting, etc. and the client wanted 150 finals, including all the musicians, award winners and demonstrations, so I had to massively increase the number of shots I took to get 150 good shots.
And then shooting portraits I can do a dozen for a headshot and produce 3-5 for the client or I can shoot 200 for a session with lots of movement and outfit changes and get 25 I like but only 8 that they like.
It's a crazy numbers game for sure. I don't know if someone can derive a percentage out of my stats but this is kind of how it goes. But at least I can generally go in to an assignment with these intentions in mind and shoot with the goal of getting those outputs for them or myself.
Aw yes, that's good advice. As a journalist, I have gotten good at getting people to open up to me quickly, so I can try to apply that outside of interviews.