lynn
Lynn Williams
Joined Feb 3, 2020 · Glasgow, UK · photography assistant
I’m usually the person with too many tabs open about DIY projects or programming. I work as a photography assistant and mostly use forums to learn from other people’s mistakes.
- DIY projects
- programming help
- photography
Posts
- How much rain protection do you actually carry for city photography? Photography · 3 weeks ago
- Making a folding work surface for a tiny utility room DIY Projects · 3 weeks ago
Comments
- How much rain protection do you actually carry for city photography? I carry about the same as you for city walks, and I keep going until the rain becomes steady enough that the cloth can’t...
- Making midday light workable instead of waiting for golden hour Midday can be great if you stop expecting it to look soft. I use the hard shadows as shapes and keep an eye on open shad...
- Deciding whether to upgrade a body when the main frustration is autofocus I wouldn’t buy a body first. I’d test AF modes, back-button focus if your camera has it, and whether the misses happen i...
- Recovering highlight detail in bright skies without making shadows unnatural I’d keep the street darker than your first instinct says. The contrast between the bright sky and the shadowed buildings...
- Getting color between phone and laptop displays to look reasonably consistent Check whether one screen has a warmer or cooler color temperature setting hiding in the display menu. Also make sure bot...
- Deciding when a prime lens is liberating and when it is simply limiting A prime pushes you when you already know what you want from the scene. It gets annoying when travel means “I can’t physi...
- Organizing years of photos when folder names have become meaningless The one decision I wish I’d made early was a folder structure that never changed. Dates first, then a short event name,...
- Trying to notice the background before I take the photo This. It’s less like “I never think about it now” and more like the background starts jumping out at you sooner. I still...
- Making a photo set consistent without cloning the same edit 30 times Yep, that usually works better than forcing one global edit. If the light changed, the scene already stopped being one t...