Step 10 Percent

Have you ever had a picture that was great but when you added it to a print project or newsletter and you saw it again it was all pixilated and wrecked? Well this is the perfect solution. Perfection does not get much better and simpler then this, I put it here under “advanced” as we [...]

Eyeshot a Fowl

A great practice for early photographers is photographing birds. I know you are thinking, “I could never make that perfect “national geographic shot”, and your right for good reason, mostly for lack of giant sports/wildlife photography lens the length of your forearm. But don’t worry or give up there is a lot you can do [...]

1st GOT Challenge

Accepting contributions for the first ever Got Challenge (Your not against anyone, only challenge yourself  how far your willing to go, and original/different you can be then the predictable norm). Best one makes cover! (See the terms and rules first here.) Main Theme Evangelism “…they received the Word with all readiness of mind” (Acts 17:11b) [...]

Photo Journalism vs. Photo Documenting

I love photojournalism, I might use that term broadly. It might not be always things that are a news item to others but the undisturbed documenting of an event, particularly involving people as subjects or sub-plots or situations raw and unscripted is a very powerful form of communicating language. Honestly I tire of those posed [...]

Mission Impossible: A Drive By

Naturally everyone looks for the perfect settings to take pictures; but what when conditions are not right, you can’t set up a tripod, wait for perfect cloud cover and all? Many people stop taking pics, but to me that is when the fun begins and it is great exercise for being ready and kinda “paparazzi [...]

Go Live and Personal

We’ve all had times when you are at an event or show and you are asked to take pictures, usually someone goes to the back of the room and gets the whole room with heads in the foreground and little people on stage. While you might need one like that to document the show and [...]

Timing is Everything

While quality and content are the cornerstones of photography timing is right behind if you want to catch the moment that might never happen again. I have a chronic case of picturetitus, I rarely am not seen with a camera. When I first started out with a little Aiptek camera, it fit in nicely in [...]

How to be Macro anyhow!

I’ve had people come up to me and say that their snapshot camera is junk because “it can’t do anything but group shots”. They long for the kinds of macro shots they see on their desktop or Webshots program and think they could never do anything like that. Sure there is certain merit to that [...]

Cookin’ Cameras (buyers guide)

People ask me “what camera should I buy”? I often reply, “How hungry are you”? Do you just want to take snapshots or do you really want to go somewhere and learn an art? Do you want fast-food or 5star dining? What are you willing to pay for? And if you can buy it, do [...]