Posts Tagged ‘focus’

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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]