CITIZEN PHOTOJOUNALIST
We are all photojournalists sometimes. We are out there taking pictures to remember or record something. Events, vacations, travel, outings , all those times we take along a camera with …
Month: March 2019
RULES
If the first rule is that there are no rules can that be the a rule? Arnold Newman, the master portrait photographer tells us there are no rules for composition. …
YOUR WORLD
We see out a portal. We are inside looking out and sometimes we put a camera in front of our portal. (I guess that makes it a portal portal.) The …
WATCHING THE HISTOGRAM
Camera exposure meters can be tricky sometimes (especially mine). They aren’t always entirely accurate, telling us the exposure is good but then under- or over- exposing depending on the scene. …
FILE NAMING
Eight-dot-three. The origin of endless cryptic file names that we thought we would remember the meaning of but totally forget. Now we can name our files in full words or …
HARDWARE
What’s life like without hardware? All those tools and components that allow us to do the things we want to do? Without hardware we wouldn’t get much done. For photographers …
NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT
It is not uncommon to encounter the unexpected. Who really knows what the next moment will bring? This can actually be rather satisfying when going after a shot. Frequently, we …
WEB CONTENT
So much of our photography is used on the internet, on a website site, somewhere. This enables the world to see our photos and of course and us see theirs. …
ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
There are loads of programmers out there programming loads of software programs. TNTC (too many to count). And in each realm there are the major players. The ones who seem …
CONTESTS-SEE AND BE SEEN
Whenever we enter a contest there is always the hope of winning, getting a prize, but of course, not all of us do. There is more to contests than the …