FLEETING PHOTOS
What’s the life cycle of a photo? I suppose that depends on how it is measured. We can measure how long a photo lasts electronically before it is deleted or …
Photography
YOU SUCK
That’s right. You’ve no doubt heard it before. Chances are you were the one saying it (to yourself, I do). We all pretty much suck at most stuff, especially in …
KEYWORDING
Keywords are descriptive word that are attached to photos in the photo’s metadata. They can be added in Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, Darktable and other photo processing programs. The intent is …
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 …