Five Photo Fixes

Often people see a picture and don’t see what went into it, that is understandable and not as bad as those that throw pics away if they are not “perfect” from the camera. We all strive to get good shots, but sometimes circumstances do not allow it. That’s why it is good to know a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]