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A photograph is truly worth a thousand words especially when it is a UV reflectance photo! OMG, that’s frightening! Our motto is to prevent skin cancer one child at a time and not to make the sun the enemy. However, UV reflectance photography provides a powerful personal snapshot of pigment change related to sun exposure. Because […]
Professional photographer Matt Cooper started his photography career later in life but found he was hooked very quickly. A former actor in film, TV and theatre; Matt suddenly decided that he no longer wanted to go to casting sessions and auditions and wait for the phone to ring. With his wife, they decided to take […]
Australian born photographer, Brad Grove, didn’t catch the photography bug until late in his life. Although he was reasonably well travelled, he was more of a typical holiday snapper even though his eldest son is a professional photographer. It was late 2008 after returning home from a trip to Canada, Alaska and a little of […]
Situated a few kilometres west of Berchtesgaden, the Parish Church of St. Sebastian in Ramsau has two claims to fame. The first is its achingly beautiful location in a valley, surrounded by mountains, with a couple of wooden bridges spanning the Ramsauer Ache, the river that passes alongside. As a photographer one could spend hours […]
Do you allow photography trends to stifle your style, or does your personal passion, style and creativity prevail? A well-known wedding photographer (who shall remain nameless) once berated me because I was, in his opinion, following the trends and overdoing the new and popular filter effects of the time. I walked away from our conversation […]
NOTE: I was originally going to write this piece to correspond with the first day of Fall, but since most everyone has been experiencing high temperatures, I didn’t think anyone would appreciate it until now. According to Greek Mythology, We get Fall because the daughter Zeus and Demeter was abducted by Hades, and Demeter fell into […]
I talk and work with photographers every day. I hear a recurring theme, in two parts. First, most photographers are not totally satisfied with what they get when they shoot, and second they usually say they “over shoot” I always respond the same way, There is no such thing as overshooting. And it’s true. How […]
Are there times when you feel challenged to complete an assignment, or even to just go out and take some photographs? Tangential activities take on an unanticipated urgency. I have never really understood what drives this onset of dispassion for the task, but I know I have experienced it many times, and I find it […]
Russian born photographer Natalia (Natalia Klenova Photography) has been a professional photographer for 10 years. Her journey started when she lived in California and started a new hobby, taking lots of pictures when walking with her daughter. She says “I kept a camera with me every day. I photographed daily, anything and everything, so that […]
Professional US adventure and lifestyle photographer Morgan Phillips got into photography after he took a class with a friend. He was introduced to film photography and once he purchased a digital camera he didn’t look back. For Morgan, the journey really took off when Instagram gave him an easy platform to share his photos with […]
German photographer Mandy Karlowski received her first camera as a gift from the family that was hosting her during an exchange student program in the U.S. She took photos of everything from family and friends to all the places she traveled to and even the family dogs! Very quickly she realised that she found […]
I have written about cultivating the creative and overcoming the fear factor. Let’s consider ideas to help you recognize your talents! Many photographers find that there are periods when they are unsure of their abilities. Discovering that you have a photographic ‘eye’ is an exciting moment. Then the frustration of learning the mechanics comes in […]
It wasn’t until digital cameras arrived that Spanish photographer Oscar Simon Navarrete got into photography. He was so fascinated by the photos that he saw on the internet that he purchased a Nikon 2 megapixel camera. He wanted to capture the images he saw online himself and started to practice by photographing sunsets. He caught […]
Dragan started photography back in the 80’s through watching his uncle creating his own black and white photos in his darkroom in his hometown of Belgrade in Serbia. He was around twelve and his first camera was an extremely low-tech, fully manual plastic box which was capable of taking surprisingly decent photos. He has been […]
“Cementland” was intended to be a public art exhibit on the 54-acre site of a former cement factory just north of St. Louis, Missouri. It is the unfinished work of artistic genius Bob Cassilly, a sculptor, and entrepreneur, in St. Louis, Missouri. Bob Cassilly was also the founder of the St. Louis “City Museum”, which draws over 700,000 visitors a […]
I recently returned from the UK, where I love being a visitor in my homeland. A great delight for me is capturing a different perspective of buildings and sites that I previously took for granted. This is something I highly recommend as a photographer. Take time to be tourists, whether visiting new locations, or just […]
Semi-professional, German born photographer Lennart Bader, was only 14 when his classmate bought a Canon 30D camera. He was so impressed by the pictures it produced, he purchased a Canon 350D himself soon after. He spent the next few years photographing mainly during the holidays but without really experimenting with his photos, and because his […]
This has been an unusual spring to say the least. We took our annual trip to Charleston in March to photograph the magnificent Magnolia Plantation and other very cool places in the Charleston area. Normally, the gardens would be teeming with various colors of azalea and other flowers and flowing spanish moss. This year, the […]
During spring in Charleston, I shoot mostly infrared, using my D800 with the Super color (590nm) conversion from Lifepixel. Although, I photograph mostly B&W infrared, we’ll have a look at color infrared in a future blog post. One of the iconic images from Charleston are Oak Lanes. Many are on private property, still shootable from […]
Taking the next step either in your photographic career, or just improving your technique can be intimidating. Starting with mastering the camera controls, to editing in various software platforms, the fear factor exists for many. How do you decide which image is worthy? Are you influenced by the opinions others? Are you afraid to break […]
