Scott Thomas

Scott's "Photographic Innoventions" blog focuses on intermediate to advanced photography concepts and techniques relevant for Point and Shoot and Digital SLR cameras.

Photographic Innoventions: Disneyana Photography

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Let’s talk about how to use your digital camera to easily and inexpensively take photographs of your valuable Disney collections and memorabilia which has been coined Disneyana. Here’s the items we’ll need this week: a digital camera of any kind, a tripod for the camera, a remote shutter release (or use your camera’s timer), a … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Disneyana Photography"
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Photographic Innoventions: More Bouncing Light

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Last week, I went over how to use an external flash unit or speedlight to bounce it’s light to improve on flash photography. We learned to vastly improve the look of the classic straight on flash look. Very easy if you have a ceiling less than 20 feet high. However, if you are having breakfast … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: More Bouncing Light"
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Photographic Innoventions: Bounce Flash

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Many photographers don’t like to use flash. After learning all the ways of exposure, ISO settings and the use of the exposure compensation button, flash poses another learning curve. I’m here to tell you, learning to use flash is not hard and can give you another tool for getting professional-looking photos at home and in … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Bounce Flash"
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Photographic Innoventions: Kilimanjaro Safari Photo Tips

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I was reading about some photographers who came back from an African safari the other day. They listed the equipment they used the most. Cameras costing thousands of dollars, lenses in the 500 to 600mm range which cost, you guessed it, thousands more. It got me to thinking about how wonderful the Kilimanjaro Safari is … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Kilimanjaro Safari Photo Tips"
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Photographic Innoventions: Before the Moment

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Last week, I talked about Joe McNally’s book, The Moment It Clicks. However, to start making photographs instead of snapshots, you have to think a bit before clicking the camera’s shutter. It takes practice. So, when you are in a Disney park or an event and things start to happen fast or you are with … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Before the Moment"
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Photographic Innoventions: In the Moment

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Joe McNally is a photographer to be admired. He’s been published all over the world and in such publications as National Geographic, Time, and Sports Illustrated to name a few. In over 30 years as a pro photographer, Joe McNally has been faced with capturing photographs in some of the most bizarre places on Earth … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: In the Moment"
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Photographic Innoventions: Watch Your Back(grounds)

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One of the problems we all have at Walt Disney World is distracting backgrounds. From sharing the resorts with thousands of other guests to uncooperative animals or characters, backgrounds are hard to control. So, what’s a photographer to do? First, you have to do some very obvious things each time you look through your viewfinder. … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Watch Your Back(grounds)"
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Photographic Innoventions: Bokeh!

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No, it’s not the name of a new ballroom dance craze. Bokeh is used to describe a certain camera lens characteristic. Bokeh comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means fuzzy. Sounds like a strange characteristic for a lens to have, doesn’t it? Bokeh describes how the background looks when shooting with the lens at … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Bokeh!"
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Photographic Innoventions: Castle at Night

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Walt Disney World is magical at any time of the day but, at night, it’s extra magical. So much so that Walt Disney World resort guests are able to enjoy Extra Magic Hours or EMH in all the parks (see link for schedule and more information). It was on just such a night in the … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Castle at Night"
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