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 ... ]
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 ... ]
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 ... ]
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 ... ]
Have you ever pondered the questions, what is the subject? I ask this question a lot of my attendees when reviewing images and it's not quite clear what the photo is about. But today, I'm [ read more ... ]
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 ... ]
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 ... ]
I recently received a response to my post Be An Artist from someone and they brought up some great points about having a "learned eye" instead of a gifted eye towards art and I wanted [ read more ... ]
I'm in the Grand Teton National Park as I write this and as I'm sitting in one of the most beautiful parks in our country, I am suggesting for you to look past the icons [ read more ... ]
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 ... ]
To me, I find subtlety far more rewarding as an artist and as a viewer than something that is bold and screaming in my face to "look at me". Subtlety is nuance, it is slight [ read more ... ]