By pascaljappy | How-To
The hallmark of a great photograph is its ability to maintain the viewer’s attention and interest long after the initial wow effect, even after multiple viewings. Does understanding the subject matter help create photographs that achieve this ? Welcome to the first episode of Basics. As previously mentioned, the series is destined to create […]
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By Pete Guaron | How-To
In part 1, Lad Sessions gave you a very good technical description – he’s researched the subject in depth, and anything I can add is likely to be shallow. So I’ve made this more anecdotal, instead. What do we understand about “bark”? First thing I ever understood was that it “doggish” for “hi there pleased […]
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By Werner Mäder | How-To
Photographing hotspots is becoming increasingly difficult for me. Snow-covered mountains in the golden morning light, landscapes with a full moon, endless expanses in Iceland, gondolas in Venice, temples in Thailand, Saddhus in India or fog over Tuscany – no matter how dreamlike they may be – I can hardly hold on to anymore. At the […]
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By Lad Sessions | How-To
Bark is so common that we scarcely take the time to appreciate its wonders. It is of course essential to trees and vines—and very useful to humans in many ways—but it also intrigues at least two photographers, at different ends of the earth, who have contributed text and images. We have each spent much time […]
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By Claude Fiddler | How-To
My experience with getting a book published started in the mid 1980s. A rock-climber friend of mine, George Myers was living in his pickup truck cab over camper in a parking lot next to Yosemite Valley’s Camp 4. The campsite for generations of hard-core climbers. George was meticulously drawing pen and ink climbing route descriptions […]
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By Lad Sessions | How-To
I am fascinated by all things visual, but especially by colors and patterns, the former for their infinite tonalities, the latter for their infinite forms. Hence it’s no surprise that I love sunsets—and also ferns! Photographing the former is more challenging for me: it’s hard to be in the right spot at the right time […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Epicurean + curious. How about photographing more than landscapes or street, while travelling ? I was going to call this “Terroir Photography”. Terroir is a French word that describes an area of common culture and environmental factors (such as terrain and weather) that determine the quality of local produce. In many ways, Terroir denotes […]
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By Bob Kruger | How-To
I’ve been taking pictures for a long time. Only recently have I taken pictures with a purpose. For many years I have taken pictures serendipitously, what Pascal calls “grabbing” (DS # 1134). That approach was my staple for many years, but the more I shoot the more I veer from grabbing. I’m getting too old […]
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By Lad Sessions | How-To
Mosses are boring—or so we may think. After all, “rolling stones gather no moss.” These days we take that adage to mean that mosses are dull and static creatures, a bothersome excrescence on dynamic entities like rolling rocks—and rock bands! But in earlier centuries the phrase had exactly the opposite meaning: stay put and flourish, […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
When Fujifilm entered the digital camera market they did so with a firm intent to pay homage to their film heritage both in the styling of their cameras and in their attention to detail in the colour science of their film simulations. For years the mantra in the digital photography world was ‘I shoot RAW’. […]
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