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Caving Photography For The Inexperienced
October 14, 2011 – 10:32 am | Comments Open
Caving Photography For The Inexperienced

Basic Photography Tips For Even The Most Novice Of Caving Photographers
Like many I have always seen really cool images of the Carlsbad Caverns. Great huge spaces filled with stalactites, long exposed lights and a few folks with cave helmets walking …

3D Photography
September 26, 2011 – 11:07 am | Comments Open
3D Photography

Anyone with a digital camera can now make their own 3D photographs with their digital camera and without the use of a 3D camera.
The concept is simple.  It involves taking a photo first using your left eye looking through the …

Product Photography Tutorial
June 8, 2011 – 8:21 pm | One Comment
Product Photography Tutorial

Taking Pictures of a Bottle – A Product Photography Tutorial

When taking pictures of a bottle you may need to put light behind it to make it look transparent. Here is how using cardboard and aluminum foil you can achieve professional …

Photo Tips for Anytime
April 21, 2011 – 1:22 pm | One Comment
Photo Tips for Anytime

Easy To Follow Tips To Help Any Photographer
As the wife of a pro photographer I have picked up some super useful tips that I use with my own images. I give these tips, not as an expert, but the key …

Long Exposure and Light – f64 Image Journal
February 19, 2011 – 11:31 pm | 5 Comments
Long Exposure and Light – f64 Image Journal

Photographers Need To Understand How Digital Cameras See Light

When working with students I often point to a tree and ask them “what color is that?” Most of the time I get the answer “green,” but of course that isn’t really …

Photoshop Tips From Pro Photographers
February 8, 2011 – 1:00 pm | Comments Open
Photoshop Tips From Pro Photographers

Nature photographers share techniques that will turn good photographs into an award-winners
There are many elements that separate the top nature photographers from hobbyists. With today’s digital tools, not only do photographers rely on a great eye, time-tested technique and quality …

Shared Moments – f64 Image Journal
January 29, 2011 – 10:06 pm | One Comment
Shared Moments – f64 Image Journal

Sharing Experiences That Touch Others
Photography is an amazing thing . It is an individual experience and a shared one as well. A Photograph stops time forever, yet the moments continue to live on. Photography allows us to instantly remember the …

Painting Photos With Light
January 22, 2011 – 3:10 pm | One Comment
Painting Photos With Light

Anne Michelle

Simple Steps to Creating Amazing “Light Painted” Images
Light painting is done when you place yourself in a dark room and leave you shutter open for an extended period of time. This has the effect of capturing any light placed …

Creating The Look of Lomo Photography
January 9, 2011 – 12:09 am | One Comment
Creating The Look of Lomo Photography

Simple steps to “artifying” your images
Ahh the “look” of Lomo. Soft focus, dark edges, crazy colors is their anything better? A Lomographic image can be both jarring and striking at the same time. A Photographer either loves or hates the …

The Year in Pictures
December 31, 2010 – 11:54 pm | 2 Comments
The Year in Pictures

There are few things in life that give me such pleasure as weekly viewing the MSCBC Week In Pictures. It is the best way I know of truly seeing the absolute best photojournalism the world has to offer. Below is …

Forced Photographic Perspective
December 27, 2010 – 11:05 pm | Comments Open
Forced Photographic Perspective

Forced perspective is a photographic technique that uses depth of field to make an object appear closer or farther away than it actually is. By manipulating scale and vantage point it can create an altered reality all its own. Below …

Eye Candy – f64 Image Journal
December 20, 2010 – 10:31 pm | One Comment
Eye Candy – f64 Image Journal

Making Images That Simply Bring Joy
A photographer I once knew would always ask, when an image was shown to him, “what are you trying to say with this image?” It’s a good question and one that every photographer should ask …

Negative Space
December 17, 2010 – 3:22 pm | One Comment
Negative Space

When composing an image, it pays to think about negative space and how it will affect the image.
It can help to balance an image, by adding visual weight, or even to add framing to a subject. We tend to think …

Animal Photography Attacks
December 13, 2010 – 10:01 pm | One Comment
Animal Photography Attacks

I was on on assignment photographing a large heard of elk in the late afternoon. A huge bull was standing magestically 15 feet away behind a 6 foot fence. I was thrilled that he was so close and began tripping …