John Pedersen Photography Blog
The written word can be as creative and artistic as a photograph. So I strive to write regular blog posts about my travels, gear reviews or just some thoughts that need to get out. I hope you find information, insight or inspiration through my blog.
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 ... ]
Are Tripods Dead?
It's 2024, are tripods dead? With the amazing technology in our cameras and lenses, do we really need tripods any more? We can now get 5-7 stops of image stabilization in our cameras, allowing [ 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 ... ]
What is the Subject
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 ... ]
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 ... ]
New Year
Happy New Year everyone! Is the New Year a big deal for you or not so much? For me, it's never been that big of a deal. I've not been a believer in affirmations or [ read more ... ]
Learned Eye
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 ... ]