Things change, especially in the world of photography. In night photography, things have changed a lot in the five years since the release of my book, Fun in the Dark: A Guide to Successful Night Photography. That is why I have completely updated Fun in the Dark with...
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In Finding Beauty we explore the concept of a quiet image. Each week we come at the concept from different directions. Here's a look at some student work and what each had to say about Finding Beauty. As you can see, this fun course will get you to move the needle on...
Personal Pearl of Wisdom: Get Up and Give me Six.
Inspiration for these posts come in all flavors anytime day or night…no matter what I’m doing. So to tell you that this one came from surfing my cable television provider on a particularly dreadful evening where you wonder why you have to pay so much to get absolutely...
The moment I became a photographer
This is a re-post from BPSOP instructor Brit Hammer's blog How it all started In 2014 my filmmaker husband, Armand Dijcks, and I teamed up with Athena Carey to film a fine art landscape photography tutorial. She’s a brilliant photographer and instructor, and that’s...
White background in the Flora photography
We love sharing the best work of our PHOTOGRAPHING FLORA students. In this class we talk a lot about the importance of the background and how a bad background can steal the thunder of your main subject in the photo! And while we definitely encourage our students to...
How to Start Organizing Your Images in Lightroom Classic
One of the reasons why I am such a Lightroom Classic fan is the organizational options. It can be a monumental task of managing a large collection of photos. I know this because I have over 70,000 images now in my Lightroom catalog. You may wonder how I keep track of...
Non Human Gesture
I talk to my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct throughout the world about the importance of a gesture in your imagery; it’s one of the ways to create Visual Tension. The actual definition of a gesture is “a...
The beauty of simplicity
What makes an image quiet? In Finding Beauty we approach creating quiet, minimalist images from different directions. One of the ways is contrast. The crux of creating a quiet image is to reduce the contrast. That contrast can take many forms, including color,...
Standing the Test of Time
There are many aspects involved in taking a photo that you’ll remember and that will stand the test of time; or perhaps just another background memory clouded by the passing of our daily lives. Since I enjoy the game of golf and I often play (I’m a much better...