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Give Your Creativity a Push: The Importance of Starting
January 21, 2015
Sometimes in photography, we find that we’ve slowed down for some reason. These slow periods can be a natural part of our creative work. Sometimes we feel inspired, energ...
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Why Should Your Photos Stand Alone?
January 14, 2015
Telling a Story with Diptychs, Triptychs and More
When we think about art, we think about it as one piece – one painting, one sculpture or one photograph. However, somet...
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Making Memories at the Green Wedding
January 08, 2015
I recently had the amazing opportunity to be the second photographer at the Green wedding, and I thought I would share some insights into wedding photography as well as a...
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Revisiting Your Old Work
December 30, 2014
Looking at Your Old Images with Fresh Perspective As photographers, we are on a never-ending quest to create something new and unusual. After so many years of taking phot...
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Gear Isn't Everything: Creating Art with the Camera You Have, Not the Camera You Want
December 24, 2014
Creating Art with the Camera You Have, Not the Camera You Want
Photographers often feel as if they’re caught in something of a rat race – the race to get the best camera...
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Too Much or Too Little? Building Interest in Your Images
December 17, 2014
How to Add Interest without Adding Clutter What is the difference between a bland image, a busy one and one that has just enough interest to catch and hold your attention...
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Learning to Be Your Own Worst Critic (Self-Critiquing Your Own Images)
December 09, 2014
Finding someone to critique your work well is sometimes even harder than creating the work in the first place. If you’re like most people, you can’t rely on friends and f...
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Pareidolia and the Power of Suggestion
December 02, 2014
In a previous post, I talked about the development of the photographer’s eye, and how it is used to create art. Finding subtle facets of a particular subject is no small...
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Making Art When Everything's been Done Before
November 25, 2014
I sometimes think that the photographers who lived 200 years ago had it easy. Photography as an art form was completely uncharted territory, so every image these pioneers...
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Learning to Balance Exposure with ISO
November 19, 2014
If you think of exposure like a triangle, shutter speed and aperture are two points on that triangle. ISO is the third – and least understood – point. Throughout history,...
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