How important is exposure in photography? What are the components of exposure? What is the Exposure Triangle? These are the questions I will attempt to answer in this introductory post about ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed – the components of achieving a properly exposed photo. Understanding the purpose and value of exposure is a must […]
After you’ve mastered Levels, it’s time to take a step up to the tool that is probably the most useful for color and contrast control in Photoshop: Curves. As with levels, you should play around with the basic Curves command to get a feel for it. For safety’s sake, begin by duplicating your background layer, either from the Layer>New Layer from Copy menu, or use the shortcut Control/Command... more
It’s not exactly a new idea, but we all know it’s not cool until Apple does it. There have been attempts at a device like this a couple of times before. But it’s just never really taken off. We’re talking about a laptop-like dock for your smartphone. The only one that’s seen any kind of […]
Being a photographer or videographer is not easy, as you need to deal with all sorts of challenges and all kinds of people. But animal photographers are among those I admire most. Its difficult to capture animals and make them do what you want. With them, you almost never know what they will do. Sometimes […]
Where do you get your inspiration? Do you feel like youve hit the wall with your photography from time to time? Theres no doubt that photography is a pretty specific form of art. It focuses on the existing moments and scenes, and its up to us to interpret and capture them. Each of us has […]
A guy that started his career without even having a portfolio wants you to know what he finds important to consider when it comes to market your work. After I published What is decisive in a photographers career? I got quite a few comments in a couple of Linkedin groups. In my article I pointed […]
Most people use drones to take magnificent aerial videos and photos. I mean, thats what drones are for, right? But, this video shows us that it doesnt necessarily have to be the case. Here you will see a video of a couple filmed with a drone, but in quite an unconventional way without flying […]
Ive written before about how your images are being processed. This is true regardless of whether you shoot RAW and process in software such as Lightroom or Photoshop, or JPEG and allow the camera to make color and contrast decisions for you. Personally, Ive never been a fan of the canned in-camera picture styles the camera manufacturers prepackage in their cameras. Some are too... more
Whenever I buy a new lens, I have to calibrate it and AF fine tune five different DSLRs. Two are my primary stills shooters, and three are for video. But if I only have the video DSLRs out with me, and want to grab a few quick behind the scenes shots, I need to know […]
The battle is over, and full frame cameras have lost the race. Here’s why: I’ve been selling photos through a high end stock agency for the last two years. In my collection are images from a full frame DSLR, an APS-C DSLR, and several Micro 4/3rds cameras. After tallying my sales for an entire year, […]
