Photograpgy by Bouley -

Bruce has been a photographer for over 30 years. At a young age Bruce mentored under his father, Armand Bouley, who was an outstanding landscape photographer in Connecticut. Beginning his journey into the would of photography with a small point and shoot film camera. Bruce joined the military and continued his education in photography in Photographic Intelligence. After completing his military obligation he join a police department in Connecticut and quickly became the departments Police Photographer and attended classes for forensic photography. While on the police department he also owned and operated Rose City Photography, a successful photography studio, specializing in portraiture and wedding photography. Bruce eventually sold the photography studio to continue his full time career as a police officer. Bruce retied from the police department and eventually took a position as Director of Safety at a local hospital in Connecticut.

In 2007 Bruce was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. It was at this time Bruce and his wife Donna, of over 40 years, decided to take and early retirement. After selling their home in Connecticut they relocated to Ocala, Florida. Bruce is still active with his photography and recently organize the Stone Creek Photography Club in the active adult community where they live. Bruce has had the opportunity to use many types of cameras from the point and shoot film cameras, to the medium format cameras, to the new digital SLR cameras.

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Photography Lighting: simple ways of improving the light

Controlling the light for large subjects such as landscapes is impossible, but for smaller subjects such as portraits, close-ups or details in the landscape you don’t always have to make do with the lighting conditions exactly as they are.

There are plenty of different ways that you can alter the light, especially when you find yourself having to shoot in harsh, direct lighting conditions.

As we have already explained, to get softer light you need to make the light source appear larger to the subject. Moving the light closer to the subject will help to produce softer light, but this isn’t always convenient, or even possible.

If you are shooting a small subject in sunlight, then you need to use a diffuser between the light and the subject, to make the light source appear much larger.

This doesn’t have to be an expensive piece of kit, it can simply be a piece of semi-transparent white paper or cloth, or you could go for one of the folding diffusers such as those from Lastolite.

Another way to deal with contrast when shooting in bright sunshine is to add light into the shadows by using a reflector to bounce light back onto the subject.

Unlike a diffuser, this doesn’t soften the light, instead it reduces the amount of contrast between the darkest and lightest areas of the subject.

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