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...
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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 was to document the activity within line-of-sight of the rock in toad pond. Toad pond is one corner of a triangle of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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It's time to take advantage of the bad weather. When snow covers your sidewalk, driveway, and path to the newspaper (if you still read one), it's time to grab the camera and take the kids outside for a quick portrait session.
The next time you're in the grocery store or at the book store, make...
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I'd traveled to North Carolina for the wedding of my niece, the only child of my sister. Despite a committment to advance my photo technique by shooting photos every day, I told myself to be nothing more than an eager family member with a camera while at the wedding and reception. I was going...
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You've go to love that wonderful light that thrusts itself into a dark space illuminating the perfect face.
I'd followed the subject for most of the day covering his fish hatchery small business for an editorial client. There was little need for a tight portrait to help tell the story about possible environmental impact on...
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