LIME is still a two-man-band. Two people can create quite some music together but the amount of performances and their style are limited. To offer a bigger variety of articles, views and techniques we want to start working with guest contributors on LIME. If you have something that might be suited for LIME, please contact is.

We’ll start this series with an article by Konrad Dwojak. Konrad is a young talented and motivated photographer who wrote an article on his way to improve his pictures. Here it is:

Better Pictures by Shooting Less (article by Konrad Dwojak)

I was looking over some of my older photography gear few weeks ago and obviously I ran across my old film cameras and old memory cards from my first digital cameras. I started to recall the times of film photography and compare it with the experience of the digital world.

It took me awhile (being so deep in digital cameras nowadays) to realize that film cameras limited me by certain number of pictures a photographic film roll could contain (not like digital cameras, which can take from few hundred to few thousand RAW pictures, depending on the capacity of a memory card). The limitation of a number of ‘exposures’ (in photographic jargon of course) in film cameras forced me to spend some time and think about a composition of a picture, how to frame a subject, inspect closely foreground, background, double check the lighting and any other details that could improve a picture so that no film would be wasted. This limitation of a film camera was (and for someone who uses a film camera still is) a very important step in the learning process of the art of photography and I personally believe that it still should be a part of the learning process of photography.

I think that digital cameras with their huge memory cards give us the freedom that actually does more harm than good for those who want to learn photography – we don’t take that extra time and effort on checking a composition of a picture like in a film camera because we know that we can re-take a picture countless times and delete easily ‘bad’ pictures without any financial costs (as it wasn’t the case in the photographic film roll era).

I think I have found a solution for those who own only digital cameras and who want to learn composition in a way it was done before. The solution is quite simple: next time you will go for a photo walk, do an assignment for yourself or just take pictures, leave your 8 or 16 GB memory card at home and take with you only one memory card of 1GB or even less (the less capacity, the better; I just checked that 1GB for shooting 12.1 MP RAW will give you about 68 exposures). Depending if you shoot RAW or JPEG and how many megapixels your camera has, you should find a memory card that enables you to take not more than 30 exposures. And remember to leave all other memory cards at home! This way you will limit your gear but you will definitely expand your knowledge and experience in composition!

I strongly encourage you to try it out few times and I guarantee that you will see improvement in your photography soon.

Happy Shooting!!!

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At LIME we believe in offering a platform to views and opinion by photographers we respect. It’s even possible that we don’t agree with some of the views of our guest contributors but we do respect every opinion.

It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.

5th Place - Using Bounce as your Main Light and Fill Light by Jesus Esquivel

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We like the simple setups that Jesus shows us in his video. It may seem like nothing incredibly spectacular, but often it’s the simple setups that get you the best results. Jesus created some spectacular pictures because he really masters the setups he uses. It’s not enough to “kind of” know what you are doing. The devil is in the detail. Congrats Jesus! we’ll be in touch with you so we can send you the California Sunbounce Sun-Mover you won.

So that’s it then, 5th place of the competition? Not quiet, we had two candidates for this spot. Both had their supporters amongst the judges. In the end we couldn’t decide so we kindly asked the guys at Sunbounce if they would mind giving away TWO Sun-Movers.

the Other 5th Place - How We Bounce by Jay Scott

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To be very honest, we were not too impressed with the pictures Jay and his friend made. Judging by his website, Jay certainly has more in him than he shows in the video. But we still found his entry very inspirational. Being in a wheelchair certainly throws some challenges at Jay but with some creative outside the box thinking, he finds solutions. It’s a lesson for all of us. Lighting on location always comes with some surprises. And a good photographer always can make it work with what he has available. Keep up the good work Jay, we’ll be in touch with you.

Fourth place will be announced in a couple of days, so keep coming back!

Episode 23 of LIME’s Happy Hour is the Renaissance episode of LIME. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.

In this Episode :

• What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !

You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).

Here is Episode 22 of LIME’s Happy Hour. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.

In this Episode :

• What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !
• Dear LIME In this section we will be answering your questions. Got a question ? Please send it to us @ dearlime@squeezethelime.com
• The feature segment Every week we will be talking about one specific subject. In this episode we’ll be discussing what we would buy if we were to start out as a professional photographer today

You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).

Normally today would have been the last day to enter the Bounce Video Competition. But for a couple of very good reasons we decided to extend it to the 28th of February:

- You have more time to get some views to your video. (But let’s make it clear that the amount of views only counts for a small part of the points. A fantastic or very informative video with just 1 view still stands a chance to win).
- We’ve had many many questions to extend the deadline from people who just need a bit more time to shoot/finish there video.
- Winning one of the great prizes is probably a bonus for all who enter but the true value of entering the competition is to share your knowledge, techniques and strategies. The more good content that’s out there the happier we are.

We won’t extend the competition any further than the 28th of February, so get a couple of friends together and start making your own Bounce Video.

On a little house holding note: we are very aware/ashamed that LIME has been a very quiet place for the last couple of months. Please forgive us for that and remember that we’re just a 2-man garage band that has to make sure we don’t have to sell our garage due to spending to much time on our hobby project and too little time on our ‘real’ jobs (if you can count photography as a ‘real job’). We are currently finishing the editing on some more informational video’s of the Bounce Squad trip and hope to show them to you soon.

Because our podcast host (Podbean) decided it was time to lose all their clients’ data all our podcasts were offline. I so far uploaded podcasts 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21 again so those should be available to you all once again. The older podcasts have to be retrieved from our dusty archives and will be available again asap.

Enjoy !

Pïeter

Here is Episode 21 of LIME’s Happy Hour. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.

In this Episode :

• What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !
• Dear LIME In this section we will be answering your questions. Got a question ? Please send it to us @ dearlime@squeezethelime.com
• The feature segment Every week we will be talking about one specific subject. In this episode we’ll be discussing what we would buy if we were first year photography students on a budget

You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).

The last few months were incredibly busy for the both of us. It may have been a bit quite on this site but we’ve been shooting some videos so expect lots more activity soon. We also planned some great new workshops:

Party Photography by Jan Cornelis (16 Oct ‘09)
Sexy babes, handsome guys, spectacular light shows and vast amounts of atmosphere, but still you can’t manage to capture the spirit of a party in a picture? Than this is the workshop for you.

Become Friends with your DSLR by Bert Stephani & Pieter Van Impe (25 Oct ‘09)
We receive lots of questions to do a workshop for people who don’t have much experience yet with their DSLR. Well here it is.

Wedding Photography by Mike Larson & Pieter Van Impe (15 Nov ‘09)
The world famous American wedding photographer Mike Larson teams up with our own Pieter Van Impe for an ultimate workshop about wedding photography.

Flambient Light by Bert Stephani (12 Dec ‘09)
Are you tired of depending on the weather for good light or do you want to take the light into your own hands? In this workshop you’ll learn to recognize and use the good parts of the ambient light and add flash to create the light you want.

We are really excited about these new workshops. Book your spot before it’s too late.

Here is Episode 20 of LIME’s Happy Hour. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.

In this Episode :

• What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !
• Dear LIME In this section we will be answering your questions. Got a question ? Please send it to us @ dearlime@squeezethelime.com
• The feature segment Every week we will be talking about one specific subject. In this episode we’ll be discussing the pro’s & con’s of packing light vs packing heavy

You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).

Here is Episode 19 of LIME’s Happy Hour. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.

In this Episode :

• What’s up with LIME ? Since this is the second part of our Holiday Special series we skipped this section. Instead, Bert & me will share a (fun?) travel story with you.
• Dear LIME No Dear LIME section this time but if you got a question, please send it to us @ dearlime@squeezethelime.com
• The feature segment Every week we will be talking about one specific subject. In this second part of our Holiday Special we will be sharing our top 10 travel tips with you.

You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).