I explored Hog Farm, an abandoned hippie commune located on top of a mountain, at night. This is the long, strange trip along the way. The Hog Farm The Hog Farm is likely the longest running hippie commune in the United States. Activist Hugh Romney, more famously known as Wavy
You don’t have to light paint everything in a scene. Sometimes, keeping parts in the shadow is emotionally more powerful. What is light painting? The term is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is a technique that uses a
At weddings, you shoot portraits as quickly as possible so that your couples can spend as much time with their families as possible. I was an assistant shooter at this wedding with Lisa Robinson some years back, and she set this portrait up and shot from one angle while I shot
Cut shapes out of a large piece of foamcore or cardboard. Paint it black. Shine a small light through the holes. Interesting shadows will be created on the background. The cutouts are called cookies short for cuculoris.
Right there in Lightroom’s Develop module are two enigmatic sliders. Whites and Blacks. What do these two do? The word “clipping” in the title is a clue. These sliders set the brightest and darkest parts of a photograph. Of course, there is more to it than that. Adjusting only these
