One lens? You can do it. I know you can. Here’s a great assignment for equipment junkies who own every lens ever made. Photograph for an entire week using just one focal length. Choose one lens you don’t normally use If you normally photograph sports with 300mm, 400mm or 600mm
Recently someone commented on one of my images: “I wish I had your eye for composition.” My reply: Composition can be learned. Art classes in high school and college helped me learn the basics of composition, color, lines, shapes and the elements of design that go into creating good compositions.
In the late 1800’s photography was still basically like a baby giraffe learning how to get up and walk for the first time. Photography didn’t really know what it was, processes were still being invented and refined and there was still great debate between it’s uses for amateurs, scientists/engineers, and
Picking bookmarks is a little adventure for me. My daughter is constantly creating pictures and doodles, so I usually use one of these as a bookmark for whatever book (or books) I’m reading. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to pick a bookmark for Jay Maisel’s Light Gesture & Color. In fact, I
We all have times when were waiting for somethingmaybe the doctors office, or a meal at restaurant, or at the auto shopand many times we spend that time checking Instagram with our eyes glued to our phones. Id like to suggest a more productive use of your time that will
Just a few weeks ago, I got up at the crack of dawn and went to Trillium Lake with a few other photographers, intent on photographing the sunrise. Soon after we got there, we met up with a few more photographers at the same location. The lake was beautiful, and
Image and Post by Rick Sammon I forget who said it, but one of my favorite quotes about photography is: Look for what you don’t see. This image (certainly not the best picture you have ever seen of Double Arch in Arches National Park, UT) illustrates this point. I was
Image and Post by See Eye to Eye When it comes to photographing people, I almost always try to see-eye-to eye shooting at the subject’s eye level. At that level, the viewer of the photograph connects with the subject and the image looks less like a snapshot and more like
