When does a used bar of orange soap reach a level of critical significance in the world of photographic image making? My students and myself were unexpectedly presented with a chance to shoot great light of a simple bar of orange soap, atop a white sink, attached to a...
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Creating a sense of place: Case Study #5
This post is one in a series on how to create a sense of place. CASE STUDY: RUSTIC RESTAURANT Next time you’re taking photos on holiday or during a celebration, include detail shots to flesh out your story. Details shots, when added together with photos of...
Shooting with Post-Processing in Mind
If you’re a serious landscape Photographer, it’s important to keep in mind your creative vision from the time you take a shot to the time you post process it. Why is this important? If you put some serious thought into what you would like to do with the image in...
Food For Digital Thought: Creativity
Here’s a very interesting concept I want to share with all of you. Something to think about when you’re shooting: There’s two men swimming in the ocean, and while doing so one of the men sees a gray spot against a calm blue horizon. That man decides to swim to shore,...
From Ordinary to Extraordinary!
I am often asked what separates an ordinary photograph from an extraordinary photograph. Most 'ordinary' photographs have one thing in common; most were shot at EYE-LEVEL! Most extraordinary photographs became extraordinary because the photographer CHOSE to change...
Creating a sense of place: Case Study #4
This post is one in a series on how to create a sense of place. CASE STUDY: BREAKFAST AT A COUNTRY INN Next time you’re taking photos on holiday or during a celebration, include detail shots to flesh out your story. Details shots, when added together with...
Welcome to my Ethiopia Studio!
When you literally ‘move-in’ with the Hamer and Karo tribes of SE Ethiopia, it should come as no surprise that you find yourself in a constant position to create great shots. Over the course of four days, my seven students and I set up camp in the villages of both of...
The Question is Not What You Look at, But What You See
Over the course of my commercial photography career, Henry David Thoreau, perhaps unknowingly, played a role in many of my advertising campaigns. I tagged many of my ads with his comment, “The question is not what you look at but what you see.” I was reminded of this...
Using the Map Module in Lightroom
As a landscape and travel photographer, it is important to be able to track where you have traveled and exactly where a specific picture was taken. Sound complicated? Well, not really if you have a smartphone and a digital SLR. We recently returned from giving a...