Tips for Winter Landscape Photos
I was looking for ideas for winter photography, and I found Thomas Heaton. The first video has some composition ideas for frosty cold landscapes. The second video is a photo shoot where he is shooting a sunrise with snow, and demonstrating the effects of a...
Take Your Images from “Meh” to “Wowza” With These Basic Compositional Skills
Composition and the skills related to creating compelling composition in photographs are something photographers spend a lifetime honing and improving. It is composition that plays a large part in setting one’s own style or signature ‘look’ in photographs and makes an...
Photography Basics – What Is White Balance?
Color Cast in Film – White Balance before Digital Before digital photography, film really only came in two flavors. Daylight balanced, and Tungsten balanced. Daylight film was for “normal” light that you would encounter outdoors. Tungsten was a closer match...
Setting Goals to Improve Your Photography
Goals for Inspiration, and Motivation One of the biggest struggles I have, probably the single largest barrier to improving my photography, is just getting out there to shoot. Sounds simple. Just pick up the camera and go out the door, right? But shoot what? That...