Have you ever found yourself with your camera in a place where there is nothing interesting to photograph? The quality of light is poor or the surroundings are boring? You go home with an empty memory card and full of self doubt. Well, that happens to every photographer, but it can be easily turned into [...]
Pin It I was sitting in the heat and humidity of the the Amazonian rainforest inside the 1970’s designed airport at Puerto Maldonado, Peru. We had a few minutes before heading back to Lima and I had been trying to find time to help a young Norwegian traveling on the same itinerary as me. When [...]
It’s in the gloom of the Northern hemisphere’s winter that many people start planning trips for the new year. It’s also a time some of us upgrade our cameras when the big sales hit in December and begin looking for a teacher to help them get more out of it. A perfect time to talk [...]
Have you ever found yourself in a large city with the overwhelming feeling that you don’t know what to start shooting? This is especially true if you only have two or three days on location. It has happened to me, many times. You try to see and capture it all and you end up with [...]
This post is a follow-up to an earlier Digital Photography School guest post on 10 Tips for Mouth Watering Food Photography. Check out the original first before reading on to this post. If there’s one thing people love more than eating their food, it’s taking photos of it. Whether a quick camera snap or an [...]
It’s now a cliché that our society is super fast paced. There’s no time to relax. There’s no time for reading an article longer than 1000 words (this one is 737, don’t worry). Things need to be distilled into sound bites for easy ingestion. This attitude of go, go, go will not serve you well [...]
Maybe it’s an upcoming gift from a loved one or maybe you just decided it was time to “take my photography to the next level”. Or maybe it is another reason that has you shopping for a new DSLR. At any rate, you have started your hunt online and off and will soon be making [...]
I admit to feeling like a fraud sometimes. A fraud because I have people “ohhhh”ing and “ahhhh”ing over a photo of mine and when I sit back and look at it, I realize it’s not my photo skills they are astounded by, it’s the subject of the shot. Yes, I was there and composed the [...]
Part 1 of Time For Photography included some tips on finding time in your schedule to take photos. In Part 2 we will concentrate on making time. While it might sound more difficult to make some thing rather than find it, they both take a lot of effort. Sorry, there is no silver bullet, but [...]
It’s time for photography! But for a many of us (myself included at times) the biggest challenge when it comes to the art of photography is not remembering if higher ISO means more or less noise, or if an aperture of f/5.6 will make a background blurry. The biggest challenge is often having enough time [...]
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