by Scott Stulberg I have been fascinated with capturing portraits of people since I was pretty young. It is pretty addicting when you realize how different people can be captured by your camera and also how much control you have over the the final outcome. Whether it...
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To Use or Not to Use: Long Exposure Noise Reduction
Long Exposure Noise Reduction (LENR) is an important function available on most DSLRs and mirrorless camera bodies, which can be turned on or off as desired. During a long exposure, unacceptable noise may result because the sensor gets warm after several seconds....
Winter Blues?
The Bryan Peterson School of Photography WINTER BLUES? Psychiatrist---------------------------------$150.00 Per Hour OR BPSOP Photography Class-------------$99! FACT- People who invest time into their photography have increased levels of serotonin AND, not surprising,...
MINING THE MUNDANE
It was during the mid-80's and through the mid-90's that I found myself on assignment, shooting a number of annual reports for both FORTUNE 500 companies and the not so fortunate 500 companies. Much of my work back then focused on what I affectionately called, Hard...
An Idiom For Photographers
by Joe Baraban Before I go any farther, let me define the word Idiom. An idiom is: (1) An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own. (2) A form of a language that is spoken in a particular...
The Color RED
Red with handpainted border This holiday season is wrapped in red heart colored ribbons instilling messages of love and good will. Red, both a pigment and light primary color, sits on top of the rainbow and the "Adobe Color Picker." At its digital purist, red...
Lightroom Folder Panel Tips
There are a lot of really helpful menu commands you can discover if you make a habit of right-clicking various items inside of Lightroom 3. Here are a couple of Folder panel tips every Lightroom user should know about. Update Folder Location Let's say you bought a new...
WHY AM I THANKFUL?
Why am I thankful? It's an appropriate question to reflect upon and to answer on this Thanksgiving Day in America! I am of course extremely thankful for my son and two daughters for their unwavering love and support of what I have been able to do with a camera...
Enhancing the Third Dimension
The world we live in has three dimensions which we can perceive visually. Photography only gives us two dimensions with which to recreate this three dimensional world. As photographers, we must learn to play on the cues our eye-brain visual system use to decode our...