Today I went on my last photowalk of 2009. Once a week, for 52 weeks in a row, I’ve left my house with my camera and taken photos. That was the only rule I gave myself for this project, too. I didn’t have to find other people to walk with (though I [...]
So. The holidays are coming up, and if your family is anything like mine, they want a list from you of things that you want.
When it comes to a photography habit, it’s really easy to think “geez, everything I want is totally out of my family’s price range.” But that’s not always the [...]
1/50, f/3.2, 50mm, ISO800
I recently posted the above photo on flickr and I was talking about it to a friend, who asked for some more details on how exactly I produced that shot.
That led me to think about my preferences for shooting flowers. Here are some of my tips:
I’ve recently gone through a bit of a rut when it comes to my photography – feeling unmotivated to take pictures, and when I do, just feeling rather “meh” about the results. And so, here’s my list of suggestions on what to do when this happens to you.
1. Look through your old photos
Chances [...]
I just got back from our vacation – we had a wonderful time. I’ve barely had time to get my photos off the camera, let alone edit them, so to the three photos you see in this entry are SOOC (Straight Out of Camera), with the exception of converting them from RAW.
On Thursday, I [...]
The very first photo I edited from a RAW file. Looking back, I’d change a lot about it now – mostly the tilted horizon. *shudder* I apologize. This is why looking back to see how much you’ve changed in a year is a good thing.
In a recent entry, Chrisitine asked about shooting in [...]
A while ago, I talked about exposure and how adjusting your ISO, aperture and shutter speed can affect the exposure of your photograph.
Later, I talked a little more about the magic of aperture and how opening our closing your aperture can result in either a shallow or deep depth of field.
Well. Today I’m going [...]
Yes. Aperture. It’s magic, I tell you. I already talked in Photography 101: Exposure about how opening up your aperture (using a lower f-stop) lets in more light, and closing it lets in less, but I didn’t really talk about the magic that comes along with this change and why (other than [...]
I’m sure you’ve probably realized by now that lighting is a pretty critical thing when it comes to photography. And you’ve probably already figured out there’s already a really good, free lightbulb out there called the sun. The thing is, there’s more to using the sun than just going outside.
First of all, let’s [...]
There are so many “rules” about composition that I felt a bit overwhelmed writing this entry and decided to break it down and discuss just two “rules” for now. I keep putting rules in quotes because, especially in a creative field like photography, rules are meant to be broken. In fact, the rule [...]
