IS IT FOR YOU OR THE VIEWER?
If you shoot for hire you are shooting for the viewer. Which viewer is another question. Is it those who hired you or their audience?
PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE
There are two ways to photograph people; when they know you are photographing them and when they don’t. Candid photos are the easiest. There is no immediate risk. You can …
PRINTS OR JUST FILES
For most of us the majority of our photos never make it to the print stage. We simply keep them electronically, which seems fine, especially with cloud storage. We might …
LEARNING CURVES
Everything has a learning curve. Some are steeper than others and some take more effort to climb. Television doesn’t usually have much of a curve and even when you need …
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 …
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 …