If your photos are boring, get closer. This was sage advice from photographer from long ago. What he was saying is that the most common mistake when composing a photograph is including too much. Landscape photographers are particularly culpable in this respect, because it's often the vastness of the landscape that has us reaching for our cameras. But everything cannot be...
Mine's bigger than yours. Selling bragging rights is what more megapixels mean for consumer camera marketing departments. If an image never makes it to ink on paper and is confined to a virtual existence on screen, then the fewest megapixels money can buy are enough. Full HD monitors and televisions display about 2 megapixels worth of image data. Even the latest 4K Ultra High Definition screens...
The digital revolution has created unprecedented possibilities for the amateur astrophotographer. Through the use of digital cameras, computerized telescope mounts, and advanced image processing, relative neophytes can capture cosmic wonders from the comfort of their backyards. Broadly speaking, astrophotography can be divided into two phases, capture and processing, just like...
This video tutorial is an overview of RAW image processing using the latest iteration of Adobe Lightroom. Through example, the tutorial provides a step by step work flow for photographers who are in the process of learning Lightroom and transitioning away from depending on in camera JPEGs. The tutorial specifically addresses processing high contrast and detailed images, that are so common in landscape photography...
The truth is that most artworks sell because they match the ottoman, or the curtains, or fit the blank spaces on the wall. To be sure, artistic composition and technical execution come into play. But, by and large, art is purchased as decoration and needs to fit in with the surrounding decor. And there are no blank spaces on the wall more wanting of art than the tall and narrow spaces between the windows...
In 1854, Louis Pasteur observed that "chance favors the prepared mind." More than a century later, Woody Allen quipped that "seventy percent of success in life is showing up." These quotes by a scientist and a comedian can be distilled into a nature photographer's mantra: Show up prepared. With the global ubiquity of cameras and photo enthusiasts, photographers amount to what is likely the biggest artists community...
