It is possible to have too much of a good thing. – Aesop (c.620-560 BC) I always find it interesting that we refer to our unprocessed photos as RAW files and the parallels I’m able to draw between the processing and editing of photos and cooking. You start with uncooked ingredients, combine them and cook …
Why do cameras have Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi is such a universal thing these days with everything from mobile phones to kettles connected to Wi-Fi. Yes kettles. Why would you want a kettle connected to Wi-Fi?? What is the worls coming to? Enough about electrical appliances. Why do cameras have Wi-Fi? There are three main uses for Wi-Fi in cameras; To control …
Low Key Photography: Even More Simple!
Last month, I wrote an article on Low Key Photography. The first comment on the article was frustrated with the article, feeling it was too complex. So I want to try and boil down the techniques to exceedingly simple things that you can practice in your home, with or without models/family members/significant others. The aim …
Navigating Your Photo Trip
Since the days of the first explorers, navigation has been all about – Where You Are, Where You Want to Go, and How to Get There. In Part One of this article, we discussed how to find potential photo shoot locations with online tools and then how to create a locations map with Google My …
Top 5 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Photo Workshop
You’ve saved the money and saved up vacation time to take a photography workshop. Whether it’s a day or a week in the field, you want to get your money’s worth. You don’t want to go home unhappy and the workshop leader certainly doesn’t want to send you home dissatisfied. What can you do to …
Why do photographers use green backdrops?
Why do Photographers Use Green Backdrops? This is one of those things I have often thought about but never really understood – why do photographers use green backdrops? I didn’t know so decided to find out the answer to this question. Why do photographers use green backdrops? Photographers use green backdrops to allow them to …
Planning and Mapping a Photo Trip Online
You have the opportunity to go to one of those photo “hotspots,” a place you’ve always dreamed of shooting. You’ve seen some photos, heard about some locations, but you’ve never been there. Like most photo trips, your time is limited and you want to maximize it, getting to the best spots at the best times. …
Why I Won’t be Going Back to Film
It had been almost 20 years since I took a shot with my last film camera, a Pentax ME Super. It has sat on a shelf with some other relic cameras, decorations and dust-collectors as much as anything. But when Russ Butler, a camera club buddy, recently handed me a 36-roll of Fujicolor 200 I …
9 time saving tips for photographers
In this article I am going to tell you about 9 things that I have been wasting time doing. Bad habits, things that eat away at my time with little or no benefit. I should have called this post “Mistakes I keep on making” but I have already done that! (5 Photography Mistakes I Keep …
Change Your Perspective – Change Your Photography
The eye level of most photographers is between five and six feet from the ground. Most tripods will support a camera at this height. But if all your photos are taken at eye level, (the same as most other photographers), what will be different about your photo? The objective of a good photographer should be …
Why you should shoot in RAW and convert to Jpeg
In this article I will explain what RAW and JPEG formats are, what the differences are and when you should use each format. And why I only ever use RAW to take photos, and always convert photos to Jpeg before issuing out to a client. If you are in a hurry Basically images captured in …
High Key Photography: What Is It and How to Get Started
If you’ve been around Improve Photography, or photography in general, for some time, you may have heard the term “high key” thrown around in reference to photographs. This article is an attempt to clarify this term, as well as hopefully provide some useful examples and suggestions to start attempting your own high key imagery. You …