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Keep it simple, smarty pants!

All too often when I’m teaching people photography, they take the little knowledge they have and then go out and shoot the hardest possible subjects. Then they come back to class defeated and disappointed and want to know why their photos didn’t turn out so well.

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You only need one filter for digital photography

Digital photography has nearly negated the use of filters for me. I don’t have a “protection” filter on my lens as I feel it compromises the quality of my photos by adding a cheap flat piece of glass over my really good expensive curved glass. If I had small children who were prone to grabbing my camera or touching my lenses, I might consider putting on some protection. Even then, I’d remove it for the serious photos; the paying jobs.

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Making the leap to pro photographer

Is this you? You’ve been at this photography thing for awhile now. Perhaps you’ve been doing shoots for friends and family, and made a little money on the side. People love your photos and everyone says you should be doing this for a living. You’re sick of your day job. You want a change in [...]

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Put your photos on a diet

This video tutorial shows you the file sizes and file types to use for quick loading web sites, web videos and screen presentations. Be a good steward of precious bandwidth. Speed up the content on your site. Don’t make your audience wait ages for your slide pages to load. Alleviate the pain of an overloaded email server.

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All you need to know about macro lenses

What is a really good but affordable macro lens for my camera to help me take clean, crisp macro pictures of flowers? Answer: There are three types of lenses you can use for close up photography: Fixed focal length macro lens, macro zoom lens, and close up filters.

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Does your snow turn blue?

Do you have problems getting your snow scenes to look white in photos? I see a lot of blue snow photos, especially this week, since there is so much of North America still covered in snow! I guess blue snow is better than yellow snow, though.

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Does your snow turn gray?

Do you have problems getting your snow scenes to look white in photos? I see a lot of those gray snow photos, especially this week, since there is so much of North America covered in snow right now. Why this happens Grey snow happens because your camera meter sees a lot of light in the [...]

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Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop and Elements

I recently purchased a copy of Photoshop Elements v.9 to prepare to teach a course on shooting and editing raw files. In order to keep the course and required software affordable for those who don’t want or need the full power of Photoshop CS5, I thought I’d use Elements instead. Reviewing Elements, I found vast differences in the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) processor that is part of both programs. And to be honest, I was rather disappointed in the Elements version of ACR.

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A good web host saved my site

I upgraded WordPress only to find it resulted in fatal errors. Imagine my shock after doing a routine WordPress update to find out that my site was down with fatal errors! That’s almost as bad as losing a hard drive on your computer! If you’ve ever lost your site or a hard drive, you know that sinking, gut wrenching feeling you get. Sorry to be so graphic, but I just wanted to barf.

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