New Year’s Resolutions for Photographers
A new year and the chance for a new start. What will you focus on this year? Perhaps you will resolve to spend more time shooting? Perhaps you’ll venture into…
Twelve Ways to Improve Your Photography
The first of what will be a series of short books covering photographic related topics. Hopefully useful, sometimes thought provoking or at least interesting. Most will cost no more than…
Full-frame dSLR, 24-105 f/4, 1/60sec @ f/11
Creating Mood
Our best images are much more than simply good composition in good light. Our best images are successful because they evoke an emotional response in our viewers; transporting them back…
Wait for the Trigger
This is such a simple concept, and yet it’s so often overlooked by photographers. I’ve been re-reading Jay Maisel’s “It’s Not About the F-Stop”. Among so many jewels of wisdom…
Simplify …
Creating strong images is often more about what you choose to exclude from your compositions than what you include. Extraneous objects, distracting bright spots, or other visual detritus rarely add…
Couple running away in tunnel with threatening hand following
Don’t Be a Slave to Auto 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…