I love breathtaking images of a wide vista from a place I have never seen before. I especially love an image like that if it is full of visual information. As a landscape photographer, I love my wide angle lens. I love it for a few reasons, I can fit more into the scene than…
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…
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…
In this day of digital cameras and the cheapness of memory cards, it is easy just to “burn” through hundreds of pics and hope for the best. This is initially how I used to shoot and i was often disappointed with the results. I would get a few good shots but it was more “miss”…
