Greetings readers. I am winding up my stay teaching Lightroom, Printing and Digital Photography at the Adobe Photoshop PopUp Store in San Francisco. During a day off I got to roam the storied streets of San Francisco and do a little photography and have a little cake along the way too. I stopped for...
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on Fri, Aug 5 2011
Filed under: Photography, Technique, Gadgets, Smart Phone, Clean Lens, Better Pictures
Take pictures on purpose. Let me back up. Compose your pictures on purpose. Let me back up further. Arrange the elements of your composition on purpose-then compose-then take the pictures. It is easy to become enamored with a dominant feature in a photographic composition and miss the opportunity to...
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on Mon, Jun 6 2011
Filed under: Photography, Technique, Badlands, composition, workshops, Badlands National Park, Rikk Flohr, moon
…or Zoom With Their Feet I know. It sounds like a Rocky and Bullwinkle ‘stay tuned for next week’ line. This article appeared originally on the Holy Crop! blog… it has been modified slightly for republish in the FGI Blog. If you read it on Holy Crop! already, you can take the rest of the [...]
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on Tue, May 17 2011
Filed under: Photography, Technique, zoom with your feet, in-camera, crop with your feet
I’ve written about this subject before. The previous article was concerned with using fill flash to help illuminate the shadowed portions of wildlife in extremely bright situations. What about when the light is almost gone? This Bighorn Sheep at Badlands National Park conveniently posed at dusk-last...
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on Fri, Dec 17 2010
Filed under: Photography, Technique, lighting, Bighorn Sheep, get it right in-camera, fill flash, Badlands National Park, ambient light
Who says you have to hold a camera just one or two ways? Same subject-four consecutive shots-four very different looks If you have ever been bored enough to watch a sundial all day you probably have figured out what is different in these four shots. The rose, shot on a cloudy and rainy day was [...]
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on Thu, Sep 30 2010
Filed under: Photography, Technique, flash, lighting, Macro, point and shoot, rotation