Sometimes you are given lemons. Luckily I love lemonade and tend to make a lot of it. This was a night comprised of a large basket of lemons. It was supposed to be a clear night and a full moon, so I set off to shoot a time-lapse at my favorite lighthouse. As you may […]
Photographic filters are fantastic. They alter the light and allow for great photographic creativity. They are also a pain in the posterior. For a long time, I would do my best to avoid using them. Multi-stop ND filters in particular were avoided since focusing would need to occur before placing the filter on the lens. […]
Ever wonder if you are missing something when looking at a scene? I’m not talking about missing “the shot”, I’m talking about the imperceptible. We humans have pretty limited eyesight. We see a slim sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum called the visible spectrum. We don’t see well in the dark and our colorful daytime vision […]
I’ve been on my photographic journey for as long as I remember. My earliest memories revolve around holding a camera. It has stalled at various times in my life, but I have always returned to it, subsequently veering onto another path of visualization. My journey encompasses decades of learning techniques and a multitude of dos […]
Say what? You read that right. Dump the color. As photographers, we wallow in beautiful colors. We experience euphoria when a colorful sunrise or sunset smacks our retinas. We have a collective feeding frenzy as we feast our eyes and cameras on the evolving hues of the sky. Our quest for images is often driven […]
