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Autofocus Versus Manual Focus
Pan If you’re anything like me — which, for the purposes of this post, means you’re just about blind as a bat without your glasses — autofocus can be a godsend. It’s pretty useful for a host of other...
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Using Portrait Versus Landscape for Your Photos
Figure 1 Let’s start off by explaining what Portrait and Landscape are, exactly, for anyone reading this that doesn’t know. Portrait orientation is a more generally reserved for… well, portraits, like...
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Expectation, Perception and Reality
Big Day Out In a post a couple of days ago (Rule 32: Don’t Take Unnecessary Photos), I briefly touched on the time we waste on photos that just aren’t worth it. I chalked it up, at least in part, to...
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How To Photograph Plays and Recitals
Nothing like the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd… If you’ve got a kid, friend, or relative in a play, recital, or other performance and you happen to own a decent camera, don’t be...
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Do Over!
Seward Johnson, King Lear A lot of artists understand the importance of keeping a childlike spirit. With that in mind, here’s your official permission to call the occasional “Do over!” It’s not quite...
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Take Sharper Photos!
Want to avoid photos like this? You’ve come to the right place. I’m a sucker for sharpness. Not so much sharp objects (oh, the stories I could tell…), but sharp images. Not all types of photography...
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Composition Basics: Negative Space
Figure 1 In simple terms, negative space is the space around your subject. Sometimes this means completely isolating your subject against a stark background, but just as often (as with this photo by...
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Lucky Shot?
Meter Matey Every once in a while, I’ll go over a day’s worth of shots (or will be looking over someone’s shoulder while they’re browsing theirs), and one or the other of us will comment that a shot...
View Article10,000/365: JANUARY: A Few Fundamentals
Today starts the first month of the First 10,000′s 2013 365 Day Project. Since that’s a bit of a mouthful, from now on I’ll be referring to it as 10,000/365. Last year’s project was a bit of a mess. I...
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10,000/365 Day 9: Perspective
Having experimented with lines, let’s go a step further today and take up perspective. As it relates to photography, perspective is simply how an object appears to the naked eye (or your capture...
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