Tag Archives: Photographs
Getting the Right Timing for Great Outdoor Photographs by Planning Ahead
There is more to taking great outdoor photographs than a pleasing composition and the correct exposure. There is another important aspect. One that is too often overlooked when trying to capture a beautiful scenic subject or vista. The right timing is … Continue reading
Watch This: Neal Slavin Photographs People in Prayer
How To The famous photographer takes on a very personal project Iconic people photographer Neal Slavin’s latest project captures people where they pray. Popular Photography
How to Use a Reflector and Diffuser to Enhance Flower Photographs
Learning to see and use light is one of the most important steps to creating great photographs. As you become more aware of what nice light really looks like, you can start to manipulate even the harshest conditions with some … Continue reading
How to Enhance Urban Night Photographs Using Luminosity Masks in Photoshop
As the sun sets on a city’s skyline, thousands of lights come flooding the concrete jungle, turning every urban scene into a photographer’s paradise. Every corner around the city suddenly seems too irresistible not to be photographed. Urban night shots … Continue reading
#CreativeFriday – Re-size your photographs to a larger size using Lightroom
Have you ever wanted to export your processed images from Lightroom, but at a much larger size than the original size. Above is a typical RAW file with some adjustments made within Lightroom. I would like the exported file to … Continue reading
5 Steps to Increase the Sharpness of Your Photographs
Here are five steps you can take which help to increase the sharpness of your photographs: 1) Keep your lenses, filters, and camera sensor clean Somewhat of an obvious point, but a very important one nonetheless. If your lenses and/or … Continue reading
Six Essential Steps to Taking Great Photographs
Whether you have been creating photographs for years, or only for few weeks, your goals and dreams are to create great photographs that everyone will admire. You may notice this is not an easy task, and I’m sure that most … Continue reading
USPS Celebrates National Parks Centennial With Stamps Featuring Epic Photographs
News Art Wolfe and others will be featured on the honorary stamps A series of stamps celebrating the 100th anniversary of the US National Parks Service will feature majestic landscape photos and paintings… Popular Photography
Do You Take Photographs or Make Them?
In October 1978, the cover of National Geographic showed a self portrait of a gorilla using a camera. I’m serious—you can look it up if you would like. The cover shot was a self portrait, taken by a gorilla, and … Continue reading
11 Photographs from the Streets of Tokyo
Traveling is a great opportunity for photographers to surround themselves with new subjects and an unfamiliar environment where at every corner something new awaits! Street photography during travel is a way to capture the feeling and the atmosphere of a place, through photos … Continue reading
Photographer Hoshi Yoshida Photographs Mountain Bike World Cup Races With a Leica M6 Film Camera
It’s not secret that I’m kind of a mountain bike nerd, and I have even been lucky enough to be a credentialed photographer at a couple of World Cup races here in the USA. It’s an intense assignment, that’s physically … Continue reading
Carol Walker’s Tips for Taking Majestic Horse Photographs
Having photographed equine subjects professionally for more than 15 years, Carol Walker can tell at a glance whether a pictured horse is domestic or wild. “The domestics are usually very clean and shiny,” she says. “Their manes are untangled, and … Continue reading