Erick Lirios

Humility and Patience–
Humility is one sign of wisdom and it’s a good thing coming from anyone. It allows one to learn from another and it enables a person to grow. It has nothing to do with an inferiority complex. Quite the opposite. It just means a person believes in oneself and is secure enough that [...]

Making Your Shot List and Being Prepared Part II–
A good part of our discussion last week went into figuring out just what to do for a shot – specifically the sunrise/sunset. We’ll just wrap up a bit on that to make sure we have the bases covered.

With the sun as your main light source, things [...]

Making Your Shot List and Being Prepared–
When you go into a shoot, it’s always best to be as prepared as possible. This entails knowing when to shoot, where to shoot, and what to shoot. You only get to know these things if you know how to get the proper information and then come up with [...]

Exposing for What?–
 
Put your camera on P or Program and just shoot. More often than not, you will get a relatively good shot. Things do tend to become messy only when there are tricky situations.

How tricky is tricky? Take for example the situation wherein there is a very bright light source, say even a bright [...]

Blasting Things with Light–
When you always carry around a camera and/or you talk a lot about photography, sooner or later people will notice and then try to see just what all the fuss is about. They’ll try to see just how much you know or don’t know and, especially for a good number of guys, [...]

Going More Basic than Basic–
There are times when you’re caught between a rock and a hard place and you just have to make things work. Part of knowing your photography stuff is really knowing how to achieve the effect you need and, especially for pros, that is what people expect of you. We’ve mentioned in [...]

Wrapping Up–
There will always be something more that you need to do and the question is just how you can do it. Fortunately for most creative people nowadays, there is usually more than one way to skin a cat.

We will be wrapping up our series on Apple’s Aperture and let it just be said that [...]