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The Ultimate P52 | Week 1 | Low Light
Week 1: Low light What better time of year to practice low light, then around the winter solstice? Although our days are slowly getting longer, night definitely still comes quite early (sunset is still before 5pm for me), and we have several more months of shorter days ahead of us. There is no real specific…
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The Ultimate Project 52 (P52) Photography Theme List
I don’t usually embark upon specific photography projects. Well, that’s perhaps not true, I do sometimes start them, but it’s rare that I finish them. I’ve started a P365 more times than I can count, but only finished one. I started a monthly self portrait project in January of this year, that morphed into a…
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I did a week long light study in my house. You should do one too.
As the leaves fell off our trees earlier than usual this year, the gray November days caught up to me. I chatted with some photographer friends about feeling uninspired. This is alarming since it isn’t really even winter yet. While I often shoot macro throughout the winter, I’ve been feeling restless with it lately, and…
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The Importance of Voice
What caused to you first pick up your camera? What inspires you to keep picking it up? It will be different for everyone, and there is no right answer. I won’t say that I was the girl who always had a camera in her hand, but I do know that I took a lot of…
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For the love of the half frame
I started shooting film in the spring of 2021. Well, I should say that I started shooting film again in 2021, as I am old enough to have grown up with film. I didn’t get my first digital camera until I was married in 2001; we were on our honeymoon and a resort photographer had…
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Top five reasons your photos are blurry
One thing newer photographers seem to have the hardest time with is nailing focus. I love purposely out of focus images, but there is nothing worse than thinking you’ve nailed focus, only to realize too late that many or all are blurry. When I first got back into film photography in the summer of 2021,…
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Basics of Manual Exposure
Want to know the secret between a ho-hum, average image, and a stop you you in your tracks, beautiful image? Well, truth be told, there’s no one real secret, but a great way to set your images apart is to shoot in manual exposure mode. Once you start shooting in manual mode, you take control…
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Out of focus images
One of my favorite creative techniques is to shoot out of focus images. No really! I think there is something so lovely and evocative about an image that is deliberately defocused. To be clear, I’m not talking about an image with missed focus. That is something very different. Focus tells your viewer were to look,…
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Working with the new AI Masking tools in Lightroom Classic (version 14.5)
Lightroom Classic has recently made a sizeable upgrade to the masking tools. We used to have to mask our subjects manually with the brush tool, and while I always found the Lightroom brushes to be much more accurate in edge masking than the brushes in Photoshop, for any subject with less obvious edges it could…
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Why your next photo should come from a photo walk
How many times have you read a photo tutorial or class and one of the challenges is to “go on a photo walk”? I know I personally have read this many times, and yes, it is actually one of the exercises in my own macro class. While it seems over done, it is actually a…
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