Sometimes you find what you are not looking for I always tell people to plan the photoshoots ahead, and urge them to try to see the complete image in your head already before taking the first shots However, sometimes it takes a full U-turn and completely uncharted routes to end up with an amazing image. [...]
The phrase candid portrait is often used to refer to the type of portrait taken when the subject is unaware of the photographer. This is usually seen in street photography... more
Shooting outside in bright sunlight scares many photographers. I always seepeople sayingto not go out and shoot portraits when the sun’s high in the sky. To wait until golden hour and shoot in the sunset, or only go out on a cloudy day. Well, I think that’s nonsense.There’s so much you can do with bright [...]
There’s something special about shooting analogueblack and white for me. It takes on a quality and a character you just don’t get with modern colour digital. Fortunately, now, we have a choice. So, if we want to shoot flawless colour, we can. A hundred years ago, there wasn’t so muchchoice. We’ve featured Mathieu Stern before. [...]
I often do a poll during my workshops: Raise your hand if you dont like having your own photo being taken. Usually more than half of my students raise their hands. Do onto others as you would like others to do onto you. If you dont like having your own photographs taken, you assume everyone [...]
Seeingcamera gear dismantled can be like watching a horror movie forsome photographers. For me, it’s fascinating. It’s interestingseeing the tech that goes into the new generations of lenses. It’salso cool to see how manufacturers overcomecertain design challenges. This episode ofSgnl, seesthe Sony FE24-70mm f/2.8 G Master lens stripped down to its component parts. It’s not [...]
Here is something I never thought I’ll see, but sometimes the real world provide the most awesome nuggets. In their most recent newsletter, Adobe wanted to highlight some Lightroom features. Their way of doing so was to basically say that you don’t need to worry about anything camera related. Just fix it all with Lightroom [...]
Sometimes you have to build your own decisive moment, and it can take some time. It was another normal saturday park walk, my camera was carelessly hanging from my right hand as I walked with a few not-that-great shots on the memory card. By that time I already had made peace with the fact that [...]
Klauea is an active shield volcano in Hawaii. It isthe most active of five which make upthe island. During a flyover by with Paradise Helicopters,documentary makerMick Kalbercaptured what can only be described as a giant smiley.It appears that nature is not without a sense of humour. The volcano is somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 years [...]
