“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.” — Ferris BuellerLife does seem to move faster and faster with each passing year. The pace just never seems to slow down; deadlines at work, soccer practice and dance lessons for the kids, lawns to cut, […]
Overcoming Inertia
Is passion necessary to create great images? If you are not passionate about your subject, is it possible to create images that others will find interesting, let alone inspiring? To quote Jay Maisel, “If you’re not excited about your images, how can you expect me to be excited about them?” It’s hard to argue against […]
Passion and Work
Is passion necessary to create great images? If you are not passionate about your subject, is it possible to create images that others will find interesting, let alone inspiring? To quote Jay Maisel, “If you’re not excited about your images, how can you expect me to be excited about them?” It’s hard to argue against […]
Enhancing the Third Dimension
Photography is a two dimensional medium which we use to represent a three dimensional world. The basic visual cues that allow us to infer the third dimension in a photograph include: Size — whenever we have familiar objects in the frame, we use their relative size as a clue to their relative distance from us. Focus — […]
My Prints Are Too Dark!
This is consistently the most common first complaint I hear in my Digital Printing course at www.bpsop.com. This is true even among photographers who understand the need, and have taken the time to calibrate and profile their monitors.