It demonstrates the results of an off camera flash positioned at several spots within 360 degrees around a human subject. On the horizontal Axis is marked the location of the flash within the circle. On the vertical axis is the position of the flash head, specifically whether it is tilted 45 degrees up , down, or flat (parallel) to the subjects' spine.

I thought I would take a picture of most of my kit. I figure it'd come in handy to keep track of my gear, for insurance, as well as maybe for income tax records, who knows. It's probably also a good idea to do this at the beginning of the year so that I can assess all that I have, and better understand what I can do with, and without.  I resolve to use everything here at least 5 times for the year. We'll

tors at [Framed] interview Shannon Sewell, a family portrait photographer from Portland, OR. Rather than creating a cookie cutter portrait sesion , she uses hand craft and brings other unique elements to her Child portraits. The interview covers her artistic approach, and even gives us a sneak peak at how she works in post.

Lately I spend my days reading and reading and reading more of the same.

Last but certainly not least, an important piece of post processing is the crop tool. Cropping is essentially the resizing or reframing of your original image. This is done for two reasons mostly. Either you want to 1. Remove distracing, or unwanted elements from your picture. Or 2. Resize your image for printing. Camera images are often sized in a 3:2 aspect ratio which means one