Posts Tagged ‘Jordan Lake’

Photographing Things the Wrong Way

January 8, 2013 | No comments yet

There are some rules, writ­ten and unwrit­ten, about pho­tog­ra­phy. Longer focal lengths and wide aper­tures are for por­traits, wide angles and small aper­tures are for land­scapes. There are rea­sons for these rules, of course–with por­traits you want to empha­size your sub­ject and remove dis­trac­tion, and with land­scapes you want every­thing in focus and often want […]

Photographers Persist

November 27, 2012 | One comment

Also, pho­tog­ra­phers are (gen­er­ally) patient. I read a great lit­tle arti­cle by Thom Hogan recently, in which he explained that land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers are data col­lec­tors as much as they are pho­tog­ra­phers, and that lots of obser­va­tions over days or weeks or months lead to the great pho­tos that they cre­ate. There is always chance and […]

A Month of Monochrome: First Impressions

May 30, 2012 | No comments yet

A lit­tle over two weeks ago, I declared that for all my per­sonal work, I would shoot in black and white exclu­sively. So far, I’ve kept to it, for the most part. I have over a month to go, but have already taken a num­ber of pho­tos in var­i­ous types of mono­chrome. So far, I’ll […]

Homework: Photograph the Familiar

January 8, 2012 | No comments yet

Every once in awhile, whether you are a cre­ative per­son or not, you hit a rut. As a pho­tog­ra­pher, some­times I feel like I’ve pho­tographed the same things a hun­dred times, have pho­tographed all the inter­est­ing angles, found all the inter­est­ing lines and tex­tures and light and what­ever. Of course I haven’t, but I feel […]

Double Strike

September 22, 2011 | No comments yet

Think of all those times you went out to pho­to­graph, and maybe drove to a bunch of dif­fer­ent places, but you didn’t have the right light, or the birds weren’t there, or things didn’t develop the way you wanted them to. Think of all those seem­ingly wasted moments when you came home with­out a great […]

Egrets! An Essay on How to Be Prepared and Unprepared for a Shoot

September 13, 2011 | No comments yet

Those that know me know that above all, I am a por­trait shooter–I like pho­tograph­ing peo­ple. How­ever, as I’ve men­tioned before in this blog, when I’m not pho­tograph­ing peo­ple, I push myself to pho­to­graph other things–landscapes, wildlife, skate­board­ing, what­ever. Whether the pho­to­graphic results are good or bad, they always teach me some­thing, usu­ally use­ful, about […]

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