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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]