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…
I have lectured on Photography and 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 usually because…
I was fortunate to visit Antarctica in February 2010. It was an amazing experience to say the least. Antarctica truly is the last eden. It is almost like landing on a foreign planet, size and scale defy the norms there, the scenery cannot easily be captured photographically and yet there is so much to photograph….
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…
