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…
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…
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…
Fireworks displays are amazing to watch and can be really enthralling , many photographers shy away from photographing them as they think it is too difficult to photograph them. In fact, photographing fireworks can be pretty simple, if you follow a few simple tips that are outlined below: 1. Use a tripod: I know, I…
Photostitching has been around since photographers started making images. In the days of film, a photographer would take multiple images of a scene and then “stick” them together either by using staples or glue on a back board. By doing that, the viewer got a sense of the panoramic vista that the photographer saw as…
As any serious photographer will tell you, a tripod is a key piece of kit to get really tack sharp images. This is of course true, and a good quality, heavy duty tripod is first prize. This is all good and well until you want to travel somewhere. The idea of carrying a 7kg tripod…
