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Take Photography to the Next Level – Photo Projects
Photography projects can separate the professional photographer from the enthusiast. Sure, you can be an enthusiast and do plenty of photo projects but you'd be hard pressed to meet a professional photographer who has never done a photo project or ten. Photo projects are what gets you notice[...]
Bucket List of Places to Photograph
Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Liguria Recently I stumbled upon (quite literally because I was using the website StumbleUpon) a website with some beautiful photographs of places I'd like to visit with a camera before I die. The list was 33 deep and each photograph was beautiful. Here a[...]
Food For Thought – Inspiration
Inspiration defines us. Inspiration is the "process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative: "flashes of inspiration". ~Google Dictionary What if you could bottle up your inspiration for a rainy day? If you grew up in the country then you may be[...]
Quote of the Day
As artists, photographers had extraordinary visual sensitivity, and they thought and expressed themselves naturally through visual images. As artists, they used the new tool (a camera) as other artists before them have used brush and pencil - to interpret the world, to present a vision[...]
Photo Challenge – Me and Monet
Before the camera there was canvas, paint, and brush. Today our sensor is the brush, your SD card is the canvas and light is your paint. If you think taking a great photograph is a challenge, try painting one (no that's not the challenge). The photo above immediately reminded me of Claude [...]
Hand Held Long Exposure Photo Art
"You never know until you try" reverberated in my ears as I held as still as possible while taking a 15 second photograph of the coast of Kaua'i, Hawaii. If you ask me if you should use a tripod I will answer yes 99.9% of the time. Recently I have been reading a lot of books about artists, b[...]
5 Dramatic Seascape Photographs – And the Settings Used to Take Them
ISO 200, 22mm, f/8, 1/160 sec ISO 200, 12mm, f/10, 1.3 sec. ISO 200, 12mm, f/10, .8 sec ISO 200, 14mm, f/10, 10 sec. ISO 200, 17mm, f/13, 18 sec. All photographs were taken using a graduated neutral density filter (to darken the sky so the ground could be exposed without losing the [...]
Photo Candy – Baby Birds
While visiting Kaua'i you can't help but notice the plethora of roosters every where you go. Apparently the cat population is not very large here, my cat Reeses would have had a field day. Theory has it that in 1992 a hurricane that hit devastated the chicken farms and released the roosters [...]
Photo Challenge for Two or More
Sometimes it's difficult to motivate ourselves to go out and photograph every day or even every week, sometimes we get a little burnt out. Turning photography into a bit of a game can help you to spark your passion and increase your skills as a photographer. As with most games, this one isn'[...]
Photo Project – Light and Seasons
From time to time it's important that we sit down and crack open a book (or iBook?) and read about some of the great artists who came before us, whether photographers, painters, or sculptors. Here is where you expect me to say something about Ansel Adams but that would be cliché. Claude Mo[...]
Photo Challenge – What’s the Story?
If you follow this site there is a pretty good chance you like to read about photography and ways to improve your already great photographing skills. You probably have at least two or more sites you consistently check to see what advice or tips they have for you each day. I'm willing to bet [...]
The Photographer and Their Story
Yesteryear Why do you enjoy photography? Why might it be a passion for you? Is it the challenge of mastering the manual setting of a camera? Maybe you just like preserving memories. Is it how you make your living? If you've never taken a minute to jot down just why it is that you enjoy [...]
