As you may have noticed…the Monday Lesson has been changed to the Monthly Lesson. I’ve found it a little difficult to keep up with it weekly and I don’t want you to feel like I keep forgotting you.Starting now, I will be posting a lesson on the first Monday of every month. As always, I...
With the 4th of July fast approaching…I’m going to talk (or type) about shutter speed today and how you can use it to get great creative images On your camera (most of the time) you will find a shutter speed priority setting or “S”. This will allow you to control how long the shutter is...
This week I’m going to talk about Apertures, or F-stops, and how they make your photos better.I covered this a little bit in one of my earlier lessons on depth of field, but I wanted to go over it with a little more detail. So, before we start using our cameras, let’s define Aperture and...
Today I’m going to show what makes a photo look good in color, black & white, or sepia…and how to choose which one looks best for any given photo. Here is one image, taken in my home studio just a few months ago, in color: Notice how bright her outfit is? Let’s tone it down...
How to take a great Sunset Portrait: There are two main problems when trying to shoot a portrait with the sunset as your background. First, your subject may appear as nothing more than a silhouette because the sunset is behind them. The other main problem is that your subject may appear “washed out” if you...
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