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…
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,…
This is an excerpt from the eBook I am writing, it is called working with light… Light is the most important ingredient in your photography. Yes, you need a camera, yes, you need good lenses and of course if you will need to know how to use the camera, that will improve your photography exponentially. We…
We have all heard it many time before, photography is all about light. In fact the word photograph is a combination of two words, photos and graphos. Photos means light, graphos means drawing or painting. So, literally a photograph is a light drawing or a light painting. Without light, there can be no photograph. If…
