Light is the most critical component of your photography. I use a system for every image called the 4C’s, it helps me to put everything in place when I have time to setup the shot. The 4C’s are Colour, Contrast, Composition and Control. More on this in later posts, but without Light, you simply cannot…
As you may know, I really enjoy taking photos with my iPhone. It truly is a great tool for some quick photography and sometimes you may surprise yourself at the images you get (I still get amazed at some of the images I get). Over the past year, I have spent some time experimenting with…
Its not a very flattering description, but it works. In my opinion, photographers should be “light snobs”…what do I mean by that. Well, being a light snob is like being a food snob. You seek out the best light (like seeking out the best food), you only shoot in the best light (think…best restaurant) and…
I have lectured at various photography schools on Photoshop and very often I hear students tell me that friends and family will say to them that using Photoshop is cheating. I have also heard some photographers say that they are “purists” and don’t do any Photoshop “manipulation”. I find that this kind of comment is…
I hear this word fairly often…creativity, or one of its derivatives…creative, create or even uncreative. As photographers and artists, we sometimes become obsessed with being creative, after all, photography is a creative art, so that must mean we need to be creative to make great images. Well, yes and no. All too often, I think…
I am a city dweller, I live in Vancouver, BC. Sometimes that can be a hindrance to taking the kind of stark and surreal landscape images that I would like to be taking in the Canadian Rockies or up in the Arctic, but sometimes it challenges me to think a little more. I love Vancouver,…
