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	<title>Behind the Lens</title>
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	<description>On Becoming Daspar: Musings of a Digital Photographer in Training</description>
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		<title>Having Fun &#8211; The First Priority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the chance to photograph a child for her acting portfolio.  I&#8217;ve not photographed her before, and had met her prior for about three times.  She&#8217;s one of the most energetic, vibrant, and expressive children I have ever photographed.  The session occurred later then I normally work, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2009/11/23/having-fun-the-first-priority/</link>
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		<title>Leila and Naraine Photoshoot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you photograph people, it can be an intensely intimate experience.  Often the clients are nervous and apprehensive, especially if they are not used to being photographed.  A synergy must exist between the photographer and the individuals being photographed to get the best possible pictures.  Often, my clients will tell me that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2009/11/11/53/</link>
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		<title>The Sky Gods Still Love Me&#8230;</title>
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I took this photograph from my driveway.  I used a 200mm lens zoomed in as far as it would go.  Within about 25 minutes, the moon had clouded over.  I took this earlier on in the evening so the typical bright ring around the moon was not there as the sky was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/11/14/the-sky-gods-still-love-me/</link>
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		<title>Review: facetoface by Rick Sammon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Face to Face: Rick Sammons Complete Guide to Photographing People 


&#8220;Picturing the subject, you are also picturing a part of yourself.&#8221; &#8211; R. Sammon
I think I got to about page twenty-eight when I broke down.  I could not stand the anticipation any more, and quickly flipped through the book and looked at every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/11/14/review-facetoface-by-rick-sammon/</link>
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		<title>Review: Photographing Your Family:  Great Beginner Level Book (though those more advanced could learn something too!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photographing Your Family 
, By Joel Satore with John Healey.
I originally picked up this book to help me get more creative with the day to day shooting of events in my family.  Sometimes, the hardest pictures to take are with the subjects you see everyday.  And for that reason alone, the book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/11/14/review-photographing-your-family-great-beginner-level-book-though-those-more-advanced-could-learn-something-too/</link>
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		<title>HDR: Photomatrix Pro 3 Saves the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might know by now that I&#8217;m not a big fan of blindly adopting the use of plug-ins for Photoshop.  A lot of the times, I find the plug-ins too expensive, and not as flexible as simply learning the steps to achieve the same effects within Photoshop.  That being said, of course there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/10/27/hdr-photomatrix-pro-3-saves-the-day/</link>
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		<title>More experiements with Bokeh/Vignetting: Getting closer to what I&#8217;m after.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent some time using the cut out shapes from black paper on my lens over the past few days.  Also, in reading about the technique I&#8217;ve come across some different terminology regarding what exactly this technique is called.  For me the most important thing at this point, is to try to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/10/27/more-experiements-with-bokehvignetting-getting-closer-to-what-im-after/</link>
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		<title>Fun with Lights: Exploring one side of Bokeh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a few pictures where the lights had been transformed into fun shapes, and I became curious to see how you could do that.  The following is what I came out with on my first night trying this effect.  





These are the results of my experiments:
1. Cutting out the shape is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/10/23/fun-with-lights-exploring-one-side-of-bokeh/</link>
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		<title>Lemonade from Lemons: WB and Photoshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was taking photos at my daughter&#8217;s school for Grandparent&#8217;s day.  Some of the compositions were sweet and natural, with children happily working on their art work while their grandparents stood nearby.  And because I can not resist the beauty of a child&#8217;s eyes, a good deal of the photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/10/17/lemonade-from-lemons-wb-and-photoshop/</link>
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		<title>10 Things I Learned This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.    When shooting random individuals on the street, give yourself extra time to chat with them.  You’ll be just as fascinated with the tidbits of life handed to you verbally as you will with the images.
2.  If you find yourself driving down a one way lane that ends with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daspar.com/blog1/2008/10/16/10-things-i-learned-this-week/</link>
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