One of my favorite ongoing challenges is to find a mundane object like a park bench and take 25 good images with that subject as the dominant object or focus of your image. My version of this challenge is a bit tougher than most. I like to call a challenge done when I have 25 finished images of the subject. […]
Webster’s definition of a portrait picture is: “a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face” Do a Google search of portrait and you will see well over a million images which show a head-and-shoulders or headshot image depicting a person’s face. The portrait is an iconic style of photography, people spend their entire professional lives shooting nothing but […]
Like any art form, photography can get stale sometimes, and it can be difficult to get inspired for a new project. Let’s talk about some easy ideas that you can try to keep things fresh and keep those creative juices flowing, who knows you might find that next new big project you want to do! The key with these ideas […]
I thought I would take today’s post and discuss another aspect I had to contend with to bring my project Landscapes of the Body to it’s present state. Today will focus on how I choose the right paper for a project, and my process to get a final print. I personally believe that you can be proficient at getting a […]
A project I have been working on for years is about to make it’s debut. On February 17th 2017, my Landscapes of the Body project will be shown at VSA Gallery in the Santa Fe Art District in Denver. This is a show not a sale, the images will be on display through the end of March 2017 in celebration […]
So you did the research, you made the choice and you went ahead and bought that fancy new wide angle lens for your DLSR. You slapped it on your camera, took some images and you found that they are a bit uninspiring. This is likely because the wider angle lenses distort your view of the normal world, and as the […]
So you bought that awesome fancy new DSLR and now you are looking to up your photography game and buy a new lens so you can expand your creativity, but which lens? The answer to this question as is the answer to many questions in photography is: it depends. I submit to you that buying something new isn’t always the […]
Welcome to week four of my four part series on learning to see light. This series of articles have touched on the basics of light and how it affects your photography. As photographers, we are concerned with four attributes of light, Quantity, Quality, Color and Direction. This week we will focus primarily on the fourth attribute of light – direction. […]
Welcome to week three of my four part learning series on light. This series covers the basics of light and how it relates to your photography. As photographers, we are concerned with four attributes of light, Quantity, Quality, Color and Direction. This week we will focus primarily on the third important attribute of light – color. As with any physical […]
Welcome to week two of my Learning to see Light series, where we cover the basics of light and how it relates to your photography. In this series, we are concerned with four attributes of light, Quantity, Quality, Color and Direction. This week we will focus primarily on the second attribute of light – Quality. As with any physical theory, […]
Ok, take a deep breath… here we go: Visible light is a specific frequency set of electromagnetic radiation measuring between 400 and 700 nanometers in the Electromagnetic Spectrum (4.00 × 10−7 to 7.00 × 10−7). This range sits between the infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. Whew! what does that mean? And more importantly how does it relate to photography? Well, even a […]
I have been asked on many occasions what is one thing I can do to get better at photography? My answer without hesitation is always: take more photos. I don’t subscribe to the hard and fast rule that many old grizzled photographers adhere to that your first 10,000 photos are your worst, because in all honesty, it can be a […]
I was working on a post about overdone photo practices and came across this video and figured, rather than reinventing the wheel I would just post the video here All credit for this video go to the fine folks at http://tv.digitalrev.com/ 25 Photo Clichés You Should Stop Doing
Warning: This post contains a frank discussion about getting better at photography. You have been shooting for a while, watched all the YouTube videos and maybe you got that one shot that everyone likes, you took it to the fair and maybe you won a prize. Now with everyone telling you how talented you are, you decide to take the […]
This week we start a series of posts based on simple things you can do to become a better photographer. Warning: some of the suggestions here can be extremely challenging, and can take you down a notch in regards to how you think about your photography. First and foremost, reading an article such as this should be considered the first […]
When composing a shot, consider that even a marginally strong foreground object will anchor your viewer to the scene. While we will discuss this technique in relation to landscape shooting, it is also very much part of portrait shooting as well. This image is of Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. I took it while on a road trip a couple years […]
Generally, in my photography, I steer away from excessive photoshopping. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have hangups about Photoshop — on the contrary, I use it all the time as a tool to help me bring what my vision was for an image to the viewer. I am not opposed to getting rid of a power line or an […]
Whether you are an old grizzled photographer or someone just picking up the camera, one of the toughest skills to acquire is the ability to determine which images to show from a shoot. This is especially difficult when shooting landscapes or products where the subject doesn’t change as much frame to frame, as compared to portrait photography. When shooting a […]
Ever been out and about shooting random stuff and not feeling overly inspired? It happens to all of us. I was out walking this last March after the snow had all melted along my usual walking path, searching for an image that would embody some thoughts about composition. I would not consider this a perfect image by any means, but rather an illustrative […]
HDR, the photography equivalent of glitter in the craft world. HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography is the process of taking three images, bracketing the proper exposure and combining them to produce an image that has more detail in both the highlight and shadow areas. This technique allows you more flexibility when editing your images. When shooting in certain situations, […]
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