As photographers, we obsess over light. How much of it, the direction it’s coming from, the color and so on…
Isn’t the very WORD - photograph - ancient Greek for writing with light? (Photo = light, graph = to write) Maybe it’s Latin, I’m doing this from memory.
In our obsession, we buy studio lights so we [...]
General Photography Tips
Shadows - The Forgotten Element That Can Make (Or Break) A Photograph!
Repetition a Visual Tool - For Turning Chaos into Art
Repetition is a creative tool. When you repeat a certain size, shape, or color you add strength to the overall image. Repetition is a basic concept in the art world. A really good photo tip worth remembering is: if you repeat something once or twice it becomes more interesting. If you repeat something [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | 1 comment | Continued
Wide Angle Photography - Broaden Your Horizons
Your digital camera has a powerful zoom lens. I have never seen it, but I bet it does. In fact, when you bought it, one of the first things the salesman mentioned was the magnification power of the zoom lens. It is one of the ‘must have’ features of a modern digital camera.
October 20th, 2008 | 2 comments | Continued
Composition - Can You Live Without the Rule of Thirds?
Composition in photography can be a difficult subject to teach to others. This is because composition can be a deeply personal thing. What appeals to me may not appeal to you.
October 13th, 2008 | 0 comments | Continued
The Thing That MUST Happen First - Before It’s Possible To Create A Stunning Photograph
We all want to create stunning photographs. It doesn’t matter if we’re professionals, amateurs or something in between.
We haunt the camera shops, learning about and experimenting with all the latest cameras, lenses and filters.
Bad Weather, Good Light - Being Flexible With Your Photography
We’ve all sat, staring out of our window and cursing at the rain poring down or the flat, grey sky that just happened to cloud over on few hours we’ve managed to set aside in our busy schedule to head out and shoot some photos. But all is not lost for the opportunistic and well [...]
October 1st, 2008 | 4 comments | Continued
Zen Photography 2 - Being At One With Your Image
When I was young, my mother was very much into hand built pottery. She became pretty good at it and started attending more and more Arts and Crafts shows. To get into the bigger, well known shows you had to send pictures of your work in advance for the promoters to decide if your work [...]
September 26th, 2008 | 2 comments | Continued
Zen Photography - Being At One With Your Camera
Back in the summer of 1979, I met a man who automatically did everything that was manual with his photography. He set the film speed, shutter speed, and f-stop for every picture he took. While this is not totally unheard of, as far as I could tell he never used a light meter. He was [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | 4 comments | Continued
Help! My Meter is a Moron! - Creative Controls For DOF
If we said that Depth of Field was the range of focus found in any given picture, we would be partially right. Just as a camera is the box that captures light; it is also much more than that. A camera is made up of many parts. Depth of Field also has many [...]
September 17th, 2008 | 4 comments | Continued
