Photoshoot and Beyond
Announcing Our Latest Contest Winner – Thanks to the great folks over at Spider Camera Holster (www.spiderholster.com) we’ve got a winner Jacob Mark Coblentz of Bolivar OH won a brand new Sony A7II and the brand new SpiderLight Hand Strap. Jacob is an amateur who likes to photograph landscape and nature and enjoys photography strictly as a…
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You may wonder why a post dedicated to controlling the shutter. It’s pretty basic right? You press the shutter, you make the photo. But believe it or not we get questions from amateurs just starting out about things like this, and since there are always brand new people coming to photography every day, we like…
Most cameras you can buy today are capable of good to great video recording. More and more photographers are branching into video – some because their clients demand it – and some because they just want to explore. I have shot my fair share of video using both dedicated video cameras and stills cameras capable…
Photography Basics – Learn How To Set Your WB All photographers need to know at least something about white balance. You can set it in the camera or you can fix it in post. If you want to fix it in post, I generally recommend that photographers shoot in RAW mode, which means that you…
It’s easily the most important lesson I learned in photography – how to make better photos by controlling the background. I am a background fanatic. Some photographers talk non-stop about low-light performance, or color saturation or sharpness…for me it’s all about that background. I have walked away from some pretty nice photographic subjects because I…
This post was adapted from a story I read by Stephen King. It was intended for writers but I changed it up to make it work for photographers. There are plenty of similarities and in fact, I often teach that becoming a better writer will make you a better photographer. You may not agree with…
The founder of Luminous-Landscape, one of the early photography-focused web sites, Michael Reichmann has passed away from cancer. Michael originally showed up on my radar because he started Luminous Landscape around the same time I started Photofocus. We had similar goals. His early efforts were far more advanced than mine and I learned from his…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a simple mission: To work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. This is manifested in the incredible National Wildlife Refuge System. Those of us who are lucky enough to live in (or…
I have had a little more time shooting with the new Canon 1DX MK II since my first look post. I really want to focus on the whole experience of shooting with this camera. Most camera reviews get down to pixel peeping which is why I write so few “reviews.” The expectations when you say…