Category Archives: Instruction

Let go

Taken with Hipstamatic for the iPhone.   Spontaneity is often associated with photography. We see it in everyone’s photographs. Heck, most of the best photographs ever made were taken on a whim. The medium of photography is largely driven by the spontaneous. Not to mention, the camera is made to capture a moment. For example:...

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Emergence

If you look deep enough, you could come up with a multitude of different principles, theory, and hypotheses to ruin any photograph.  However, regardless of what the artist’s mind wants to believe, there are some basic reasons as to why some things work and some things don’t.  Why some things look “right” and others do...

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Snowman

Always have your camera handy. I saw this little guy hanging on our tree when I was laying on the floor with my kids.  I am a big fan of feeling and mood, and I absolutely love how this frosty fella turned out.  I used this Photoshop tutorial and tweaked it to my liking.  Try...

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Expose to the Right

We laid the foundation a couple days ago.  Shooting in RAW gives us more flexibility and control over our images.  It enables us to pull out the image we saw when we snapped the picture.  It allows us to make minor mistakes and still get a good image.  Today we are going to take a...

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Craft & Vision – some of the best photography info you can find.

I try to recommend different things on the blog that I find helpful.  In my short journey in photography, I have researched a great deal on the subject and I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface. One of the things that is clearly evident to me is how photography is both technique and art. ...

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