Photoshoot and Beyond
When I started getting serious about photography, I stopped concentrating on gear and started concentrating on developing a photographic eye. Unfortunately I was not born with the gift of visual acuity. I am glad to report that it is something you can learn. One of my early teachers used self-assignments to help move me along […]
Do you LOVE your photo bag? Chances are you are always looking for a bag that has just one little thing that you’d like to change or add or delete. Most photographers have more than one bag. Most photographers will never be happy with the bag(s) they have, but that could be changing. Read on… […]
1. There is no magic camera that makes you a great photographer – no more than there is a magic set of golf clubs that will make you a pro golfer or piano brand that will make you a great muscician. 2. Well-known travel photographer David duChemin says “Gear is good – vision is better.” […]
Photo Plus Expo is upon us. Several of us from the Photofocus team will be speaking and presenting either at the show or on the show floor in the Pefectly Clear booth – booth number 983. It’s at the back of the show floor on the right hand side as you walk in from the […]
(NOTE this is an infomercial for Platypod – I include it here because it is frankly pretty darn good at explaining the product in a way that a written blog post cannot.) While Rich & I were walking the show floor at Photoshop World in Las Vegas last August, we came upon an ingenious little […]
I’ve been studying this for a long time and I’ve finally figured something out. The reason that so many photographers simply copy the style of the day (how many more wedding shots will I have to look at where the photographer is shooting into the sun so he can get the background to flare? How […]
Can’t afford one of those super fast f/1.0 pro lenses so you can make your subject pop right off the screen when someone sees your photos? You can still have a nice, clean background by simply increasing the distance between your subject and the background. In the photo above, I am shooting at f/8! “How […]
If you want to understand lighting – really understand it, prepare for many years of study. Or at least months and you might want to start with Nick Saglimbeni’s Nick Saglimbeni’s Mastering Lighting Volume 1 DVD Tutorial Series. At $150 it isn’t cheap, but it’s much less expensive than the average in-person workshop. Nick is […]
The short answer is almost always no. Here’s the backstory. A few weeks ago I started posting pictures on my @500px account. I looked at my stats to see which cameras were used to create the most popular photos. Now it’s important to note that I am posting mostly older photographs but many in the audience […]
I had the privilege of attending the Gulf Photo Plus PopUP Seattle event October 19th and 20th in Bellevue, WA.bIt’s a two-day, small boutique conference priced at $399 and designed to bring top-notch speakers for an in-depth series of educational sessions of interest to photographers. I was able to get a few minutes with […]