Shooting After Dark: It’s all about the light!

  Those five magic words sum it all up for me with photography: “It’s all about the light!” Whether sunrise to sunset, the light is the key. But truth is, with shooting after dark, it is also all about the light! I think I have always been infatuated with...

Editorialize Your Pictures

I don’t know about you but I like to have people stick around spending time looking at my photos. Now, I suppose there are photographers out there that shoot solely for their own gratification and never share their images for whatever reason. However, if we go on the...

Great Light

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...

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,...
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