The Little Things
Don't forget to look for and pay attention to the little things as you compose your photographs. The little things can make a dull image interesting, a good image great, or just provide some additional [ read more ... ]
Friendly Editing
As I'm packing up to leave for the Olympic National Park, an idea popped in to my head and the best way to describe it would be to call it friendly editing and it's something [ read more ... ]
Emotional Connection
Do you ever strive to create an emotional connection with your images to a viewer? Are you successful at it when (if) you do try? In this post I wanted to share a few thoughts [ read more ... ]
Processing Recipe
When you come home from a photo shoot and want to work on your images, do you create a processing recipe for images you work on? A list of all the adjustments you'd like to [ read more ... ]
Cropping
I've been thinking about writing a blog post about cropping photographs for some time now and just lately I've noticed more discussion out on the inter-web about cropping photos to create "better" images. So I [ read more ... ]
Creative Skill versus Technical Skill
Today's post is a bit about creative skill versus technical skill and how we as photographers use one, or both, to create our images. I would define the difference between the two as: Technical [ read more ... ]
Be An Artist
I am preparing to give a keynote presentation in a couple weeks and one of the presentations I’m working on is titled “Be An Artist, Not A Camera Owner”. It is focused on helping people [ read more ... ]
Look Down
One of the most helpful pieces of advice I ever got is when I'm on location, don't forget to look down. There is a world of wonder right at your feet and it's often these [ read more ... ]
Capture One
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with the Capture One editing software in an effort to learn it and evaluate if it is any better than using Adobe Lightroom for my cataloging and [ read more ... ]
WITS
I was in the Palouse recently with a workshop group and I happened to coin a new acronym, WITS, as part of my working with folks to help them improve their own compositions. It may [ read more ... ]