With the instant feedback provided by digital cameras, it’s easy to experiment and be creative without wasting anything but time while learning photography these days. It’s cheap to hit the delete button! That’s why when people ask me how to be better photographers (not that I am the next Ansel Adams), I tell them to [...]
Let There Be Light! Part I…
Today is the start of a series of posts (they may not be in order, I am scattered sometimes) on lighting. Everything in photography revolves around light. You may not think you care about light or types of light, but I promise that if you stay with me, you will [...]
Ug, that is what my little league coach used to always tell me right after I was thrown out at first, but I digress…
This post isn’t about damaging self esteem at an early age, it’s about the number 1 complaint I always get from people. “MY CAMERA IS SLOW!”. What’s the definition of [...]
Liv-Enlarge
One of my photography instructors used to say, “if your photo sucks, blow it up bigger and put it in a nice frame”. That’s probably why they serve wine at most art shows…
Have you ordered enlargements and they looked terrible? Didn’t you just want to slap the 18 year old punk behind the counter at [...]
What the crop?
Here’s a term you never thought you would need to understand, “aspect ratio”. What the heck is aspect ratio? It’s the reason your kid’s heads were chopped off when you got your prints back. Today I’ll show you how to deal with this problem without any additional software.
Quick Explanation…
Aspect ratio is basically the [...]
You never know when a good photo opportunity is going to present itself. I love taking photographs and Tampa and beyond. If I can choose one lens to carry with me at all times, it would be my 12 - 24mm. The unique perspective this lens gives me allows me to stretch my creativity. [...]
One of those “looks” that is just hard to achieve with a point and shoot camera is depth of field. That “look” we are referring to is what you see in most professional portraits, where the person is in focus and everything else is blurry. That’s not magic or an expensive camera, that’s depth of [...]
Communication is the key to every relationship, right? Well, the same applies to you and your camera. It’s usually a love-hate relationship, based on the last set or prints you ordered. But if you haven’t given your camera any direction, don’t you deserve some of the blame? Yes, you do!
The key to taking better pictures [...]
