With Apple and Android phones, the ability to take panorama photographs has really changed the landscape (if you’ll pardon the pun 🙂 ) for still photography in this genre. You can get some truly stunning results without the need to…
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How to Hold Your Phone Camera
How you hold your camera is so important, yet so many of us take our camera grip for granted, assuming that we will naturally hold it in the most stable way available. For some, it does come naturally, but for…
How to Hold Your P&S Camera
After last week’s picture presentation of how to hold your SLR camera got such an incredible response, many people chimed in via email, asking if I could do a piece on how to hold your Point-and-Shoot camera. While it’s not hugely different,…
How to Hold your Camera – The SLR
A while back I was up at Maroon Bells in Colorado, anticipating the peak of the fall colors. The lake there at the base of the Maroon Bells has become quite an idyllic scene for photographers of all levels to…
In Loving Memory
5/4/2013 was a sad day…after 12 years together, our family dog Maggie had reached a point where her body is just not able to sustain her anymore. Over the last 9 months we have seen her deteriorate slowly. Her Lab…
3 Elements of Buying a Tripod
By Jason More often than not, blur in photos is a result of movement in the camera. This means that you are likely shooting with your shutter speed set to open and close more slowly than you can hold it in…
Pet Photography 101
Photographers tend to photograph that which is closest to them more often than anything else. For me, that means photographing my dog. My dog is such a good dog too. She sits when I ask her to sit, stays when…
Service Equals Quality
Remember the axiom that on the web, content is king? While we all need to be cognizant of this, when your business is based on providing something – whether it be a product or a service, you simply must be…
Photography and Morality
I was doing some portrait work for some local friends/clients (they’re getting holiday pictures done) a few years ago and it involved both group and individual shots. The group was two parents, their dogs, and a couple kids ages ranging…
Think Negative – not Positive
Sounds odd doesn’t it? Yet believe it or not, the use of something called negative space can be very powerful in photography. But what is negative space? The term is kind of hard to describe in words, but the best…