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All Posts Tagged With: "General Photography Tips"
The Thing That MUST Happen First - Before It’s Possible To Create A Stunning Photograph
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
Beginning in Photography - Tripod - Friend or Foe?
They’re heavy, expensive, conspicuous, take time to set up and take apart again. In short, tripods are a nuisance. And in this age of digital cameras, we can always increase the ISO sensitivity to accommodate a low light situation. So why bother with one at all? Let’s look at some of the advantages of using [...]
August 6th, 2008 | 1 comment | Continued
Travel Photography - Photos That Sell
It may seem a glamorous lifestyle to travel the world, photographing its huge variety of cultures and landmarks, but it is also an expensive lifestyle. Most photographers, professional and amateur, must fund their trips out of their own pockets. To continue doing this, it goes without saying that the photos you take along the way [...]
June 27th, 2008 | 1 comment | Continued
Travel Photography: Traveling With Gear
There is a mind numbing amount of considerations when packing for your photography trip. Such as which lenses you will need, how you are going to store your photos and how you are going to carry it all around. Then there’s the pleasure of getting it all past the ever tightening luggage restrictions of airlines. [...]
June 15th, 2008 | 3 comments | Continued
