Blog Archive
Another lesson in the Basic DSLR Photography Course is now available! Section 2, Lesson 2, Understanding Metering Modes, uses illustrations from shoes to flashlights to help us understand what “metering” means, what “exposure” means and what the different metering...
Event photography is all about capturing the moment. So, what is the secret to capturing it? I’ve shot a lot of events this year: birthday, wedding, big Conference, small Conference, family photo-shoot, etc. Learning to capture the moment is vital for capturing the...
Have you been learning anything through your picture-taking in the last month? I sure have! Everywhere I go, I seem to always be learning something new. Here’s what I mean from one random place: I have to say in starting, that this is a strange composition indeed....
Here are some of my favorite submissions from the ACTION photography team at HEAV. It doesn’t represent all 16 attending photographers, but I knew I at least had to display some of their work. Everyone just worked so hard! it was a huge event, there was a lot to...
One of the sessions I was assigned to shoot on the ACTION Photography Team last week at the HEAV Convention was “Dad’s and Donuts: Men on a Mission” with Todd Wilson. Seemed like a rather boring event, until I arrived. I was shooting with one of the other...
Post-processing principles to help in staying efficient in photo editing.
Have you ever tried shooting scenic images at night? It’s not easy! At least, that’s what I was acutely reminded of during a trip to west Texas last month. I only had the opportunity to shoot under the desert sky on two different nights, but the experience was...
Are there any young, aspiring photographers in your family? Here’s a question I received recently along these lines and thought it would make a great blog post. Here’s the question and my initial thoughts in answer. Hello, our children are too young to attend your...
Have you ever been asked to shoot an assignment that you didn’t quite feel prepared for? A few years ago, I felt this way when I was first asked to take the group shot of an auditorium chuck full of people at the Big Sandy Family Conference. Now, after several...
Tomorrow kicks off the first Family Conference of the year in Big Sandy, Texas! It’s going to be a great event to cover. And I’ve been having a great time preparing for it! This year, because the photography team is so large, about twice as many as last year, we’ll...
How some creativity helped in setting up a photo booth at a family conference.
Kind of off topic for a photography blog, but let me talk about a design project I was working on last week. Have you ever thought about how knowing and understanding principles of design has a lot to do with developing your eye for creative and more pleasing...
January is always sort of a slow month for creating pictures for me. The landscape in West Virginia is usually just plain ugly: no greenery, gray skies, rainy days, slushy snow. It’s especially boring when there’s no snow at all. And even when there is snow, it’s...
Have you taken some time to look back through the pictures you took in 2014? Which ones were your favorite? Why? Looking back over a year of photographs is good practice at the beginning of a year. Of course it’s always fun to relive walking through the beautiful...
May 2015 – Lily White in Morning Light Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina On a family vacation in the Blue Ridge mountains in spring, I was looking for the “perfect flower”. Not every flower is pretty, and I was on the lookout for the best flower out there. One...
New things never cease! I received a request to include something in a Personalized Calendar that I had never received before. Have you ever seen a wall calendar that had a Bible Reading Plan in it? Neither had I! So when Olivet Baptist Church purchased some...
You know a professional product image when you see one. And you probably don’t even contemplate the fact that it’s professionally taken. The professional product photographer has done his job well when viewers think about the beauty or quality of the product, not...
Have you ever seen pictures like this before? Can you guess how it was created? Nope, it wasn’t Photoshop! It was done with just a normal lens and SLR, like any cool photography effect should be done. While you may not consider it to be an “easy” effect to create,...
I was only able to watch a few hours of the 2-day webinar by Frans Lanting today and yesterday, but I still came away with quite a few things that were very helpful to me. Overall, I was very impressed with Frans’ humble confidence as a presenter, engaging...
Are your vacations ever “normal”? Like, where you actually take a break from what you always do? For me, a “Normal Vacation” is when my main objectives for vacationing someplace does not include taking pictures. A vacation is when I go someplace and feel like I...
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