How-To’s

These are all the How-To posts I’ve written covering a variety of subjects.

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A Simple Studio Setup

Stablemate Photography

A Simple Studio Setup

I’ve been meaning to translate my Facebook Gallery about Model Horse Photography Basics into a proper blog post for a while now… marry that up to my vow of finishing draft posts and here it is!

This post is about the various settings I use to photograph model horses in 1:32 (Breyer Stalemate) scale and smaller. The same things can be used for larger scales with a few tweaks. This post doesn’t cover image editing, white balances, etc. just Av, F-stops, and ISOs!

The Basics

  • F# — Lens Aperture, F# (F5 -> F32)
    smaller number = more light, larger number = more depth of field
  • Av — Shutter Speed, 1/x (1/15 -> 4)
    larger number = more light
  • ISO — Film Speed, ISO (100 -> 1600)
    larger number = more grainy, more light

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Twenty Fourteen Theme Image Alignment WIN!

Twenty Fourteen Theme Tweaking (aka Death to Whitespace!)

Twenty Fourteen Theme Default Look

WordPress upgraded the other day and with 4.1 came upgrades to the themes. …And like a dummy I forgot I hadn’t made my changes in a childtheme, so I upgraded without making a backup of Stylesheet (style.css) and lost all my tweaks.

So I had to go back and hunt down the changes I made, saved here for posterity (and if anyone else needed them).

  • How to Resize the Content
  • How to Fix the Image Alignment Issues after Resizing the Content
  • How to Reduce the Whitespace in the Content

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