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 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,…
Its not a crazy question…promise. I know that we all know that our iPhones or smartphones have cameras built in, but are they any use? Hence the question, is an iPhone a camera? Or maybe phrased differently, is an iPhone a serious camera? Can you use an iPhone as an everyday camera? Many people walking…
I always recommend using a tripod in pretty much any lighting conditions other than midday sun. There are lots of photographers who try and handhold images in low light and when they look at the LCD screen, all looks OK…until you get home and take a closer look on the computer screen. So, I tend…
Well, it is, but the results are worth it. To do a photostitched HDR image takes time and patience. The same techniques apply for the photostitching part of the image, i.e. use a tripod, overlap images by 30% and so on. The difference is that you will be taking 3 or 5 images (depending on…
How many times have you been out on a photo shoot for yourself but look around you and think that there is nothing to capture? Often, more often than not, most probably. I have often been out on a casual photo shoot with other photographers and I realise that they aren’t shooting any images. I…
I am a city dweller, I live in downtown Vancouver. 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, but sometimes it challenges me to think a little more. I was watching the latest Batman movie a…
