10 Pieces Of Travel Photography Gear You Didn’t Even Know You Needed
Vacation Your opportunity to bring back pieces of art, not just pictures. And to seize it, you’re gonna need some gear. But first, you need to answer these questions: Where am I going? What do I want to photograph? What do I take with me? We asked our friend and world traveler Jacob James to […]
Revolutionizing Lightroom Workflows – Smart Previews Guide
How do you edit your images when you are jetting across the sky at 39,000 feet and your photos are back in the office on a motionless external drive? If you are using Lightroom, you can thank Adobe for their Smart Previews feature as a solution to the ‘always connected’ problem. In this post we’ll […]
Portrait Photography – How To Save Money, Time, And Sanity
I recently shot a series of images for a local community college’s annual report. One of the more interesting—and fun—images to shoot was a dramatic portrait of a member of the women’s basketball team. The goal was to produce a portrait that displayed determination, empowerment and strength: all attributes of the athletics program, this particular […]
dashes-versus_underscores; The Definitive Guide
Here we go … The topic of spaces vs. dashes vs. underscores continues on with respect to how to use them (or not) when naming your files. We’d like to clarify the things that matter when making a choice. So let’s get right to it, here’s what you need to know. Despise the spaces Avoid […]
Cloning Like a Pro: Tips for Seamless Edits
A few months ago, one of my friends who is working on a book on surrealist Paris saw a photo of mine, one of the Paris shots I featured in the series of long-exposure articles. He liked the ghost effect with the Parisian backdrop, and asked me for some photos to illustrate his book. My […]
Long-Exposure Photography – Part 3 of 3
In this, the third and last installment of our series on long-exposure photography, we are going to look into three advances uses of the technique. In Part 2 we examined how to do a basic long-exposure shot of still water. This part assumes that you are a little better equipped (with tripod and filters) and […]
Long-Exposure Photography – Part 2 of 3
Jersey City Dawn (Canon 7D, 27mm, f/13, 30s, ISO 100) Now that we’ve established in Part 1 why long-exposure photography is interesting and what it helps you achieve, I wanted to walk you through your first long-exposure shot, from location scouting all the way to post-processing. Since you might not yet know if this is […]
XEQUALS Black & White – Embracing the Shadows
I’ve been shooting jazz concerts for a while now, and lately I’ve been thinking about what makes a concert shot iconic. In many cases, the viewer of a particular concert photo will have no idea who the artist is, so one way to keep the viewer interested is to express a mood – a black […]
The Drop on Floordrops
In the past few years the use and sale of floordrops, or faux floors, has increased as manufacturers recognized a need and met it. Think of them as a backdrop, but for the floor. A floordrop is similar to a backdrop, but it goes on the floor instead of behind your subject. The point, of […]