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FOR YEARS I ENJOYED SHOOTING A TWO-LIGHT SETUP with my two White Lightning Ultra 1200 studio strobes, placing each in a softbox - one on the floor, pointed up, and the other on a light stand, pointed down. Between these two softboxes would be a 4' x 4' sheet of...

It is difficult to imagine a world without color. Helen Keller said: "I understand how scarlet can differ from crimson because I know that the smell of an orange is not the smell of a grapefruit…Without color or its equivalent, life to me would be dark, barren, a vast...

Few weeks ago we had in our Project52  group theme called "Negative space" and I was surprised to find out, how many people had a trouble to visualize this idea. Many many times it was represented by something negative. Negative emotions, negative thoughts, negative...

One of the things we do in our Art of Seeing class is how begin seeing things by looking for something specific.  We start with line, pattern, color and texture and our students are always amazed by how much they SEE after these lessons.  It’s a great exercise to give...

Never place your subject in the center of the frame; it will create a static feeling. Never place your horizon line in the middle of the frame; it will create a feeling of indecision and negative tension. And, whatever you do, don’t forget to always fill your...

    I have always had one if not several theme's going on throughout my photographic career. Sometimes my theme's last for several weeks, "shoot nothing but macro abstracts of peeling paint!" or several years, "shoot nothing but people over the age of 60 years...

I can't speak for all of you but I can speak for a large swath of us who live here in the Mid-West; it looks like spring might actually be on its way and this could not be better news! Most of us in living in the Midwest or Northeast are all too familiar with a winter...