There is something magical about seeing a subject up close and personal. This opens up a whole new world of options for you as a photographer. Close-up photography, or macro photography, can be a very rewarding form of photographic expression. The great thing about it is that you can do this from your basement at…
Colour is how we see. As photographers, a great way to enhance our images is to shoot for colour. Colour makes us feel certain things, think of how a sunset makes you feel, or the azure blue waters of a tropical sea. We are designed to see colour and our photography can become so much…
Light is the main ingredient in any photograph. Without light, you cannot make an image. The quality of light makes all the difference. Photography is all about drawing or painting with light. One book I read on the subject said that light IS the subject in photography, in many ways, this is true. Light is…
Creativity….I hear this word fairly often, or one of its derivatives…creative, create or even uncreative. This, in many ways becomes the key to our existence as “creatives” (theres that word again). As photographers and artists, we sometimes become obsessed with being creative, after all, photography is a creative art, so that must mean we need…
Being out on the street with your camera can seem daunting. Street photography is like that. You feel self conscious, you think people know that you’re photographing them, you feel exposed. I know. I have those feelings too. This can cause some difficulty in getting the shot. What if someone sees you? What if someone…
Photography and in particular, Street Photography, is about finding order in chaos. There are so many variables, light, colour, timing, negative space and of course composition. I recently watched a video and the photographer spoke about making sense of the chaos. That is largely what we do as photographers. We make sense of a scene,…
It is an interesting thing to photograph on the streets of any city. I live in Vancouver BC and there are some places that I love shooting. The beauty about a city is that it changes. Each day is different. This is certainly true in Vancouver. Street photography can feel strange though. Very often,…
Inspiration is a funny thing. Some call it a muse, some say it is being in “the zone”. When the muse or inspiration visits you, you can create amazing images. We have all had this happen to us. We go out on a particular day and everything we shoot “works”. We seem to get great…
We are in 2018, it’s a crazy thing. I remember watching movies when I was a kid that were set in 2018, it seemed almost impossible, but here we are. So what are the plans for this year? I have been doing a lot more street photography in the past year and I am intending…
Travel photography is one of the most popular genres of photography. Nowadays, almost everyone travels with at least one or more cameras. With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, cameras are everywhere and in general, more images are being made now, than ever before in history. We are a photo-centric and obsessed generation. We take…
