How To Master Saturation In Your Images

Saturation Is An Essential Key To The Success Of Your Images One of the most distinctive features of a visual artist’s use of color is their use of saturation. When you think of Ansel Adams’ photographs, you think of neutral images rather than highly saturated...

How Your Habits Can Make You More Creative

  They Did It This Way Did you know? Ludwig Van Beethoven religiously took walks in nature to find new musical ideas. Georgia O’Keefe cultivated her garden for improved health. Upon hearing that John Marin had completed three canvases in one day the first thing...

How To Preserve Lively Shadows In Your Prints

One of the keys to making a great print is great shadow detail. Shadow detail is something to be mindful of during exposure, processing, and printing. Curiously, even if you see shadow detail in your file on a calibrated monitor you may not see all...

3 Great Books On Color Psychology

Looking for great reading on color psychology? Start with these three very different books. The Color Box Lori Reid A simple approachable survey that’s lushly illustrated. The Art of Color Johannes Itten The expanded version of a true classic The Elements Of Color includes personal exercises and...

How To Master Color Adjustment With Curves

After Before   Curves does what other color adjustment tools can’t, precisely adjusting two out of three elements of color (luminosity and hue but not saturation) based on lightness. No other color adjustment tool is as powerful or precise as Curves. Surprisingly, many people don’t...

Extending Format – You Can Use It For More Than Panoramas

Left Right Panoramic stitches combine both Think Outside The Frame No one needs to learn to “think outside the box” more than photographers. The frame, literally a box, is often our greatest ally. Learning to see photographically is in part learning to see within the...

Use Multiple Exposures To Remove Unwanted Objects With Photoshop

Combine 3 or more exposures into 1 Remove moving objects using Photoshop's Smart Objects Use the Stack Mode Mean Keep moving objects using Photoshop's Smart Objects Use the Stack Mode Minimum It’s a perfect shot! If only those unwanted objects (cars, birds, people, etc) in the scene...

Extend Depth of Field With Focus Stacking

Foreground in focus Background in focus Two exposures combined to achieve infinite depth of field How deep would you like your depth of field to be? The choice is yours. Today, there are virtually no limits. You can extend depth of field beyond the physical limitations...

My Top 12 Photographs Of 2018

Constellation Constellation Constellation Constellation Constellation Constellation Antarctica Land In Land LXXIX Land In Land LXXXIX Land In Land LXXVI Land In Land LIII Land In Land LXXVI This is a selection of my top 12 images of 2018. This selection doesn’t reflect sales, publication, or activities...

Crop, Distort, Or Retouch ?

Top frame of a panoramic stitch Bottom frame of a panoramic stitch Panoramic stitch Panoramic stitch distorted Panoramic stitch cropped Panoramic stitch cropped and retouched Panoramic stitch retouched The strategies above are not limited to panoramic stitches. We’re responsible for everything that’s in the frame. We’re...