I wanted to offer congratulations to the youngster wearing New York Yankees t-shirt and baseball cap, the man wearing a light blue shirt and baseball cap, the man in uniform and the young woman standing in front of him. Congratulations too for the other true baseball fans in John Iacono’s photo of Yankees’ Derek Jeter [...]
Several years ago I was issued a trespassing warning by Gahanna police after attempting to find a good spot to shoot a news assignment about business construction for a New York-based news agency. Several days before the assignment came I’d shot surveyors near the adjacent highway plotting lines along the edge of the property. I [...]
I love David Hobby. For all the wrong reasons. Maybe they’re the right reasons. You can’t be sure with love. I remember my first Strobist assignment for the Orlando Sentinel. A restaurant, well known in the community for not only its food but its decor, had redecorated with new wallpaper. That’s right. A restaurant story [...]
Today’s post is number 100. Hopefully they’ve been enjoyable for you. It’s been an experience for me as I return to a part of what began my career many years ago. It’s been quite some time since I wrote a weekly newspaper column about photography. One day I’ll have to go into the fading print [...]
I once was chastised, and punished, for including people in some of the photos I shot during a year long project at InnisWood Metro Gardens park. The self-assigned project [ rockatinniswood.com ] was to document the activity within line-of-sight of the rock in toad pond. Toad pond is one corner of a triangle of spaces [...]
If you’ve ever heard me speak you know about my insistence that you must create images that tell stories. It doesn’t matter if it’s a commercial food photo, a senior portrait, sports action, a news feature, or a landscape panorama, it must tell a story. Your images must be evocative. They must evoke a emotional [...]
Not every portrait should happen just after a trip to the barber or just after you’ve put on fresh clothes. These two portraits are from a series I did of family and kids in the neighborhood. After watching the kids play on a warm summer day I gathered them in front of a white background [...]
One of the challenges for news photographers shooting portraits is finding in a very brief period of time enough information about the subject to create an evocative image that draws the reader into the story and does more than just show what the subject looks like or how he looks in his environment. A great [...]
New Digital Photogs wishes you the best for the New Year and hopes that all your burdens are light or at least seems that way. Zoom lens, narrow depth of field.
Every year, as I ponder my new year’s resolutions, I always try to find the one photo that best describes how I met last year’s promises. The process keeps me grounded in success and helps me determine realistic goals for the new year for creating better photos. This year’s best photo is of a young [...]
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