The Importance of Patience
“Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” -- Mary Pierce “Great works are performed not by strength…
Why Print Your Work?
Digital imaging has fundamentally changed the way we work as photographers. Digital brings immediacy, flexibility and lowers the on-going cost of creating images: once you own a digital camera, creating…
Themes
An answer to the question, “What is there to shoot?” Shooting to a theme is one way to keep your mind quietly alert to photographic opportunities. In photography, a theme…
Lightroom: Basic Panel or Tone Curve…
What's the difference?If you started your journey in digital photography using Photoshop, you like most others are likely familiar with the Curves Adjustment, and use it to adjust contrast, white…
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Don’t Be a Slave to White Balance
Auto White Balance: it’s one of the first things I ask my workshop students to turn off. When outdoors, choose Daylight or Cloudy white balance instead. Indoors, tungsten white balance…
The Digital Polarizer
A polarizer is a basic filter which every photographer who works outdoors should have and know how to use. In many ways it’s the only filter, the effects of which…