It’s been a little while since my last article, but be assured: I’ve got lots in the pipeline (including a review of the Panasonic GX7). Today I’m going to touch on something I think is very important for photographers who shoot outdoors, and that’s getting to really know a location. It’s especially important to know…
Category: Technique and Vision
Telling a Story: The Chair
Over the past month, I’ve had a chance to sort of do a little photographic storytelling by creating a series of images over time. On my way to work every day, I pass a series of abandoned parking lots that used to serve a rather large strip mall that has since been demolished. Usually these…
Little Building, Big City
Every once in a while, I’ll see a subject, and I will instantly know the type of shot I want to make. Sometimes, I’ll take some shots and get it right away…other times, the light isn’t right, or you don’t quite know how you want to go about capturing it. This is one of those…
Creating a Child of Darkness
Ok, well, not for real…just photographically. I occasionally take part in a ‘weekly assignment’ at one of the forums I frequent, where users submit photos on a weekly theme. A winner is picked (though there’s no real prize), but the main thing is to get you thinking outside the box and to try new photographic…
Quick Tip: Photographing Children
A lot of hobbyist photographers take pictures of their kids. In fact, even for those who like shooting landscapes or macro, a lot of people take more pictures of their children than of any other subject. I know that’s certainly the case for me. I love taking pictures of architecture, landscapes, sports, bugs, flowers, etc….but…
It’s raining inside!
I took this photograph yesterday morning. It’s my daughter, wearing her little frog boots, and ready to go outside. I took this shot with one thing in mind, but after viewing the original image, I decided to do some editing to make the image fit the vision that was in my head. I normally don’t…
Finding photos in the shadows
I went downtown for a quick jaunt today. I went to North Bank Park, where I go a lot. I’ve exhausted a lot of the photographic opportunities here, at least when it comes to the cityscape…(though I think it’s impossible to truly exhaust a location…it just gets harder). I got a few nice photos, but…
Indoor Leaf Macros
I haven’t had much time to photograph the past week or so. It’s been brutally hot, and I’ve been pretty busy at work. Since I had the day off today, I had to do something photographically…but it’s another scorcher, and by the time I got up, the morning light had faded. So, I went out…