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Understanding the Human Eye

April 12, 2017

What is it that makes photography so enthralling? When you think about it, there isn’t anything that we photograph that we can’t just look at. Certainly, photography has...

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Insights in the Way Painters Began Using Light

April 05, 2017

There is a lot we can learn from history, particularly painters and other artists throughout the ages. One topic that I find endlessly fascinating is lighting and how it...

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A Quick Lesson in the History of Flash Photography

March 29, 2017

Photography is the art form of painting with light, which means that it was only natural that someone would invent the flash, enabling us to paint with light even where t...

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A Primer in the History and Use of HDR Photography

March 22, 2017

We all assume that HDR (high dynamic range) photography got its beginnings in the digital era — that it is a construct born of the ability to freely take many different e...

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Where Art and Philosophy Meet: Should Art Be Interpretive?

March 15, 2017

What is photography without meaning? Most would argue that the more meaning, the more symbolism a photograph contains, the more valuable it becomes. This leads to an odd...

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Advanced Concepts in Landscape Photography

March 08, 2017

I’ve talked a lot about composition and landscape photography in general because I feel that it is a wonderful genre that everyone can benefit from. I would like to delve...

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Understanding the Effective Black and White Image

March 01, 2017

What makes a black and white image effective? In my opinion, it takes more to create an effective black and white image than it does to create an effective color image. B...

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Creating and Using Sky Overlays

February 22, 2017

Once you move on from basic photography skills and into more advanced techniques, you’ll find that few things are so useful as sky overlays. No matter what type of photog...

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How to Create Beautiful Architectural Photography

February 15, 2017

Architectural photography is a difficult genre with lots of little details that need attention. In my opinion, this kind of imagery relies heavily on geometry, more so th...

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Which Lenses Belong in Your Kit?

February 08, 2017

When you buy your first DSLR, one of the first questions you’ll be asking yourself is what lenses to buy next. My advice is to remain patient. Don’t let gear envy take ov...

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