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…
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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…
Five Things That Are Ruining Your Prints
It isn’t always easy creating an ink-jet print that meets your expectations. In fact it can be downright frustrating. Here are my top 5 things that are ruining your prints.…
A Simple Thought and the Forgotten -ALT
Sometimes the simplest things, the most obvious things, are the things of which we need to remind ourselves most often. A few weeks ago we had a brief break in…
Epson Legacy Baryta Paper Mini-Review
Some months after the introduction of the Surecolor P-series printers, Epson revamped their line of high quality fine-art papers. The Legacy line of papers fills in some perceived gaps in…