more about photography. You have that new camera you just picked up and you’ve tried to read the manual and it kinda makes sense, but you want to go learn and shoot some stuff. Yet you spend another night with the manual taking pictures of your furniture… There could be a good way to solve [...]

I would like to thank all my visitors to my website. I hope you are enjoying the new design. The blog templates need a little fine tuning, but most of the functionality should be there. In this post, I’m going to experiment with a new way of delivering tutorials to you … Video. I like [...]

Of course I can’t take credit for this. I learned it from another photographer and I know others who use it as well. The best way to color correct is of course to use a calibrated monitor, color management, but for many, color management is overly complex. Since we don’t all have calibrated monitors and [...]

In days of old, photographers had two choices: shoot with a camera with fixed exposure settings that was so generic it limited quality and creativity or shoot with a camera that required an advanced degree in mathematics to use but if you could master it, you had unlimited creativity and control over your photo’s exposures. [...]

This week I had the honor to be the photo judge for a photo blog called I Heart Faces (http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/), a blog dedicated to portraiture.  This week’s theme was “Wonder” and after sifting through nearly 400 photos in both an adult and kid’s category, the top ten in each category was selected and the winners [...]

Part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, we learned multiple ways to convert a color digital photo to black and white.  But frequently that result isn’t good enough. Images frequently, such as our sample, have a very flat contrast.  That is, there are not a lot of black blacks and not a [...]

Part 1 of 2 Part Series I’ve been writing these tutorials for a few posts now and a lot of time the inspiration for a post comes from a question that may have been asked in the Raleigh Flickr groups or something I’ve seen while traveling. This tutorial comes to you courtesy of @dclay3521 who [...]

This is a feature on more advanced cameras that people may not be taking as good of an advantage as they should be.  The principle behind bracketing is to expose multiple exposures to make sure you get a good one.  Lets look at a little history and camera behavior to understand why this is a [...]

Learn how to use Textures to make interesting works of art from your digital photos.