Photographers’ Light: The Magic Ingredient (0)
8/24/10 •
Light: the magic ingredient that makes our photography possible. Without light, you don’t shoot pictures. So learning to really see light in all its nuances is a fundamental key to improving as a photographer. But what is it about light that you should learn to look at?
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Black and White White Linen Night (5)
8/16/10 •
I’ve been thinking a lot about black and white photography lately.
It’s what I started with: watching prints come up in a darkroom tray of developer, the images emerging like ghosts at first, then slowly taking on their true forms…
Today’s Photograph: Lake Pontchartrain Causeway at Twilight (3)
8/02/10 •
The sunset was nice on my daily drive across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: beautiful but typical for this time of year. I thought about stopping to shoot it from one of the crossovers but decided against it…
Home, Sweet Home (1)
7/27/10 •
After two weeks of college touring with the Youngest Daughter, wife and I are back home once again—thank goodness! The trip was fun, stimulating, interesting and exhausting…
Photoshop RGB to Black & White: Which Images Should You Convert? (2)
7/15/10 •
When should you convert your RGB images to Black and White? Here’s some of the thought process I went through when deciding about this series of images…
Road Trip! …and some photography (2)
7/13/10 •
My wife and I are taking the Youngest Daughter on a college-hunting safari…sort of like a photo safari but with a lot of backwards-walking tour guides along for the ride. We’ve exited the (BP) oily, swampy climes of our home state and are meandering up in an East Coast direction with several stops planned along the way…
‘Love Pelicans’: Buy a Book, Save Pelicans!! (3)
7/10/10 •
Cheryl Gerber is a talented New Orleans-based photographer who has come out with a new book: ‘Love Pelicans.’ It’s a ‘Blurb for Good’ book that you can buy online and all profits from the sale go directly to the International Bird Rescue Research Center…
The oil spill’s impact on mental health–2 videos (1)
7/07/10 •
NBC and CNN have both come out with new videos this week looking at the effects of the BP oil spill on the mental health of residents along the Gulf Coast. Worth a look…
What Inspires You to Photograph? (7)
7/06/10 •
What started your photographic journey? Are you in touch with that feeling, that magic, today? How has your photography changed as you’ve matured as a shooter? …
How to Photograph Fireworks (3)
7/03/10 •
If you’re thinking about going out and photographing some July 4th fireworks, there are a few simple tips you need to know to be successful. It’s not hard but following these suggestions can greatly improve your results….
BBC Slideshow on Oiled Pelicans (1)
6/30/10 •
As someone who spends a good bit of time each day involved in coverage of the BP oil spill for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, I’m pretty familiar with the work that’s being done by other news organizations. I missed this nice audio slideshow from the BBC though…
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- Backing It All Up: Let Chase Jarvis Show You How
- HDR Imaging: Is There a Point, Past Which, It’s Really No Longer a Photograph?
- Cropping Decisions
- Another live stream of BP’s oil leak!!
- Shooting at 1000 Frames Per Second
- Oil spill in the Gulf from ‘The Big Picture’
- How to Correct Perspective in Photoshop
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