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 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…
A friend of mine in Portland Oregon sent me a link to the Lytro website a while back, saying I should put this new toy on my list for Christmas. I had seen the preliminary ideas around the Lytro about a year ago and it kind of fell off my radar screen, but yesterday I went and…
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…
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…
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…
