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Shooting Your Way to Financial Freedom

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People always be interested in the image which can not be captured by their naked eye. Macro photography, high-speed photography always attract people’s attention. But the high cost of the equipment makes a lot of people recoil. The majority of digital camera fans can not afford to the high cost of lens linkage components (electronic shutter linkage, and various types of flash light, etc.). However, Casio has come out with high-speed shooting EX-F1 at the beginning of this year, which has shocked the digital camera aspect. It’s unbelievable that 60-per-second of the still image shooting. While we are still surprised by the high speed shooting of Canon, Nikon SLR that sounds like machine-gun burst, the Casio EX-F1 has already gone beyond.

However, EX-F1’s price is too high to consumers, there’s no advantage as a SLR which is now depreciatory day by day for its price is more than 1000 dollars, after all, high-speed photography is not suitable for the majority of camera users. But, shortly before Casio launched Casio FH20, the same series with Casio EX-F1. Which is integrated 20 optical zoom lens, 40-per-second burst 7,000,000 pixels still pictures, and it’s only about 600 dollars.

In the past, the products always be tested with the appearance, imaging, hardware configuration, the introduction of the main features of product is only a brief space. This time, when we got this Casio EX-FH20, there is only one word in my mind: speed. Our test will be carried out around this word.

Of course, a choice of high-speed memory card is also necessary. We selected the 4G capacity SDHC memory card provided by PQI as the storage medium, in the course of photos stored, it’s full accord the request.

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SHOOTING FOOD

You want to shoot a dish your wife cooked. It is as good as anything from a master chef. You want a photograph that would be perfect for an international magazine. How do you do it?

What you need:

plate of food of course
you digital slr camera
2 speedlights (strobes or flash units) with charged batteries
a color filter for one of the strobes
a softbox or shoot-through umbrella on a stand/boom
strobe command control center (in-camera or hotshoe mounted)
a white backdrop
a white paper sheet  on which to place the dish

Now follow the steps outlined below and get creative.

Step 1:  place the white (or other color) sheet of cloth or paper on the kitchen bench, preferably where the background area is open up to 2 meters. You may tape the paper to the bench. Paper is best so we don’t get wrinkles in the photo.

Step 2: position the white background, perhaps hang the white sheet or muslin, or paper as background a meter or so away. A white board or painted wall will do the job nicely.

Step 3: place a speedlight set to wide, low between the bench and the background, and cover it with a color filter of choice. Aim it to throw a nice wide lot of color on the background.

Step 4: place the dish in position and hang a shoot-through brollie or softbox over the dish and slightly to one side. Use the stand and boom here.

Step 5: fire away and adjust strobe power from your dslr command center or pocket wizard (if you have the extra cash).

 

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