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 ... ]
Visualize Your Processing
When you are in the field composing your shot, do you visualize the processing you might do on the image before taking the shot? I know a lot has been written on the topic of [ read more ... ]
Hoh Rainforest
I just returned from a photo workshop in the Olympic National Park and one location we visited several times was the Hoh Rainforest. This is such a challenging and incredible location to photograph in, it [ read more ... ]
Subtractive Photography
Subtractive Photography - That's a weird title, yes? Well, I couldn't quite find the right words to summarize this blog post in to a catchy title that is easily understood. So subtractive photography it is. [ read more ... ]
Harmony in Photographs
What does it mean to have harmony in photographs? This is something I've been thinking about lately as I work to verbalize some of my thoughts around the art of composition. Harmony is a [ read more ... ]
Light Shaping
Lately I've been thinking about and studying a portion of photography that I call light shaping. What is light shaping you ask? Well, as you know, when we capture a photograph, we are really [ read more ... ]