As those that have gone on my tours know, I consider a neutral density filter (ND filter for short) mandatory equipment. In fact, besides the camera, lens, and tripod, it is the only piece of mandatory equipment I have. I am always preaching about using ND filters when there is […]
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I am excited to let you know that all our hotels are booked for the 2024 France tour. Without further ado, here the are, in order in which we will be staying in them. Paris: Hotel Therese We will start our tour in Paris. We wanted a place that was […]
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I am excited to let you know that all our hotels have been booked for the 2024 Ireland tour. I’ve stayed in every one of these previously and vouch that they are all great. I think you’ll love them so I want to show them to you right away. Here […]
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Previously, I walked you through how a camera exposes a picture. In this article, I will go through the three controls of exposure: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. The graphic immediately below should give you the gist of it, and there is more explanation below. Once you know how each […]
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Exposure affects much more than just how light or dark your photo is, although it certainly affects that. The same controls that determine exposure levels also largely control whether the background will be blurred out or in focus. They also control how much “noise” is in the picture. And they […]
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If you are going to elevate your photography above the level of snapshots, one of the three things you need to master is shutter speed. This article will show you how to do that. There are two parts to shutter speed; a boring part and a fun part. The boring part is that a lot […]
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Everyone wants to make big prints, and for the last few years that is something I have been doing a lot of. I have been making aluminum prints to display at art fairs that are, at a minimum, 36 inches long, going up to about 72 inches long (although I […]
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Lightroom is the go-to software for most photographers these days and it just keeps getting better. It is intuitive and easy to learn so most photographers are happy with that. In the old days, editing your pictures required using Photoshop to a much greater extent. Although super powerful, Photoshop is […]
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New photographers often struggle with creating a system for organizing their photos. This is all about folder structure. Most people innately recognize some utility in organizing by date, but doing so tells you nothing about what’s actually in the folders. Many people want to organize their photos by subject matter […]
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Saving the Organization and Edits You Made While Traveling In a prior article, I showed you a system for backing up your photos while on the road. That system boils down to making 3 copies of your photos, one of which is on an external drive that you can easily […]
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