Solstice Light
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Getting out to shoot around sunrise and around sunset on the solstices gives you an opportunity to see amazing light in a relatively short period of time. Are you doing this? You should be.
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Family History Images
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In this post I want to speak about family history photos and how best to approach this kind of work
Read MoreWhat’s Your Image Plan?
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If you don’t have an image plan, you are wasting your time, space and your sanity. Learn to make your own.
Read MoreHistograms and Clipping Indicators
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Histograms can be useful, but clipping indicators are REALLY useful. Learn why!
Read MoreThinking About Your Digital File Storage
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It’s a good time for us to discuss how and where we store our images and videos
Read MoreHyperfocal Distance - A Critical Concept Often Ignored
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In this article I visit an old but proven tool for committed photographers. Using hyperfocal distance.
Read MoreDigital Noise : Is This an Actual Problem?
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Does anyone actually need Noise Reduction? The answer is no, if you get things right in camera. Learn why.
Read Moref/8 and Be There - The Classic System for Fast Image Making
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Back in ancient times when I started as a photographer, I learned at a seminar from a qualified photojournalist about this magical system to be able to make fast images, the true snap shot, with and interchangeable lens camera and without having to focus for each image.
Read MorePhotographing Blooms
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The biggest challenge with photographing flowers is that flowers are inherently already beautiful, so what can you do to better that? Moreover, they are a popular subject and so how do you make your work stand out from the rest of the stuff that will flood the Internet and Social Media?
Read MoreReflector Guides When You Provide the Source
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Hi folks. Many photographers are familiar with the idea of the reflector and some use them as a way to create fill without bringing another light source. However, the usage guidance changes when the primary source is man made instead of the sun.
Read MoreThere's Nothing to Photograph...
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What if you wanted to do that without the expense and challenge of going somewhere? What if your time was limited? What if you were in a rut, and just wanted a push or pull to get moving?
Read MoreChanging Mood with Tint and Shade
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In this article we expand our understanding of the influence of colour on mood by considering tint and shade
Read MoreThe Separation of Light and Mood
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For most of us, we recognize that different colours imply or influence moods. As visual creatives we associate colour with light, because without light, there is no colour. However it is important to understand that in human physiology, light and colour are handled in different parts of the brain. We will explore this in this article.
Read MoreThe Two Kinds of Travel Photography
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Any of us who have travelled and taken a camera while doing so understand that there are fundamentally two different kinds of travel photography. Let’s discuss that.
Read MoreThe Hype Around Film
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The amount of hype around film photography is enough to make this old film photographer puke. Let’s cut the crap and see where shooting film can be beneficial and where the hokum lies so you don’t step in it.
Read MoreFlambient vs HDR
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Referring to a proven and functional process with a new stupid name does not make the process either new, or unique. Or the person writing about how it changes everything remotely approaching intelligent.
Read MorePatterns and Repetition - They Aren't The Same At All
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Patterns and repetitions are two very different approaches to telling your story, despite sounding the same. Join me to learn the differences and challenge yourself to find them both.
Read MoreSubjects in Motion - Where Are They Going?
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When photographing motion, we MUST provide a space for the moving subject to move into.
Read MoreCapturing Motion - A Development Assignment
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In this development assignment, I am encouraging you to build skills and images in your personal development work around the topic of capturing motion.
Read MoreThe One Light Exercise
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This very specific exercise is a boon to learn to see how light works to help facilitate your story and turn a two dimensional image into something more compelling. It should be an integral part of your personal development process and reference toolkit.
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