Through My Lens – Flower Photography
Spring in the Central New York and Southern Adirondacks region means just one thing to me; TONS of flowers are blooming and it’s time to grab the camera and get some shots! But how can you get those fantastic ‘professional’ images? Do you have to have a ‘pro’ camera in order to get them? Just [...]
Renaissance Artist Used Photography to Create Masterpieces, Researchers Say
March 10, 2009–Rome– A 16th century master used modern darkroom techniques to create his masterpieces, more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to researchers. Italian researchers claim the technique explained why many of his subjects were left-handed — the image projected onto the canvas had been reversed. Art historian Roberta [...]
General Comments about Photographs
I had the chance this morning to review a friends images. He has a fantastic eye, but I found a few things that I could tell him that generically applied to most of his images. In fact, I think it might be true for many people, so I thought I would post them here. 1 [...]
Every Day Smiles in Times Square
So, what does this have to do with Dave’s Diamonds? Well, it’s not every day that your grandson gets his picture up in Times Square on the large electronic display. My son Jason took the picture of Ethan playing in the park. Evidently, this is a promotion by Sony for one of their new cameras [...]
Classes & Dinky Cameras
Ok, several folks have asked for photography classes, so we’re going to schedule some in the evenings and on the weekend. In Galveston, I had done a basic, intermediate and advanced class, with a beginners digital darkroom class as well. I’ll re-visit my class curriculum and see if it still fits, but I think so. [...]
Spring Flowers
Well, it’s (almost) spring again, and in Texas, that means wildflowers; color in some fields as far as the eye can see. It seems like everyone with a camera wants two things. 1) a great picture of a bluebonnet, or a field of bluebonnets, and 2) a picture of their kids, sitting in a field [...]
Small Tips
There are some small, but very basic tips that you can use in your everyday shooting. I’m going to list just a few of them here: 1. When you are taking a picture, check to make sure you are holding the camera level (unless of course you are INTENTIONALLY making that horizon look like you [...]
JPEG versus RAW format
One thing you hear a lot about today is discussion about shooting pictures in JPEG (pronounced jay-peg) or RAW format (if your camera has that ability). Well, like many photographers, I have an opinion. But first, the technical definition. JPEG - (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a standard for compressing still images. The JPEG format is very [...]
Killing a Myth
In today’s world, you here over and over again how you can ‘fix it in the computer’ if you make a mistake! Another words, it makes people think that they can take their camera, not have a bit of knowledge and just push the button because everything can be fixed later. Well, let’s hold on [...]
Why This Section?
Well, two people in the last few days have talked to me about putting tips online to answer some of the most common photography questions, and to give some of the tips that I use in creating my images. My wife wants me to write a small book that will go along with some of [...]
