Visual Maturity

Visual maturity often recognizes the need to slow down, observe, move closer, move back, move up or down, consider other lenses, return at a different time etc. all in an attempt to fully explore the subject and in the process we should make numerous other and equally...

Traveling with Adobe Lightroom

Have you ever wondered how to continue editing and cataloging your images with Adobe Lightroom when you are away from home? There is so much to think about when preparing for a photography expedition and having a secure place to upload and edit your images is as...

Just One Helpful Critique

If I had to limit my comments to just one helpful critique to amateur photographers world-wide, it would be this; “Quit focusing on the ‘story’, and instead focus on the exclamation point!” Too often, the compositions of amateur photographers include far far too much...

Quick Photo Tip: Photographing Kids and Dogs Together

I don’t know about you, but the two hardest things I’ve ever had to photograph are kids and dogs, and photographing both together can be problematic. It’s stressful enough when you’re shooting for a client whose paying you a lot of money to deliver the goods, but when...

Storytelling using the magic of depth of field

Using depth of field to tell a story Many photographers have a favorite aperture. Mine is f/2.8. Why? Because it allows me to tell a story…   Do your eyes go first to the plants in the foreground, then to the person standing in the blurry background? Do you...
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