Beyond the Subject
Crafting a photographic composition that goes beyond the subject is a topic that I teach regularly to my workshop attendees as well as practice in my own photography. It can sometimes be a challenging topic [ read more ... ]
Extension Tubes
If you want to get your feet wet with macro or close up photography, extension tubes can be a low cost solution to turn an ordinary lens in to a sort-of macro lens, or increase [ read more ... ]
Orientation of the Camera
Let me ask you, when you are composing your shot, is the orientation of the camera a consideration in the composition? Often we look at angles and light and positioning of the subject as conscious [ read more ... ]
Producing Better Prints
It's not often I wholeheartedly endorse a product or course, but I'm going to put a stake in the sand here and say you need to buy this latest offering from Sean Bagshaw and Zack [ read more ... ]
Create a Recipe
When I sit down to process an image in the digital darkroom, I make an initial decision of how I want the image to come out and then I create a recipe of the edits [ read more ... ]
Dark Photographs
Have you noticed the trend that's been going on for a while now, presenting dark photographs? The subject itself isn't dark, it's the processing and tonality that comes off as dark in the image. The [ read more ... ]
Image Critiques
For those of you know have taken a photo workshop with me, you probably have experienced the image critiques that we do during every workshop. Hopefully you came away with the feeling that this was [ read more ... ]
Quiet Borders
Here's a thought for you as you compose your photographs in the field and then process them in the digital darkroom...work to have quiet borders in your images. Quiet borders is something that's subtle, [ read more ... ]
Seeing In Threes
I want to follow-up on a previous post about photo projects with a post about seeing in threes. In my previous post, I talked about how projects find me, either through chance or through some [ read more ... ]
Concepts Not Things
My post this week is about photographing concepts not things. As I was out and about photographing Fall color recently, I was pondering how I chose what to shoot and what inspires me, and [ read more ... ]