Try Setting Your Camera to Preview in B&W

Many people find it easier to see composition in black and white. If you’re one of them, try setting our camera’s preview to black and white. When you do this, seeing line, shape, form, and relative light and dark relationships may become easier. Doing this...

Setting Camera File Format

      Here are some commonly asked questions that, once answered, will demystify setting camera file format. "Should I set my camera to JPEG, Raw, or JPEG and Raw?" If you want to create files with the highest quality, set your camera to create...

Setting Digital Camera Color Space

                    Here are five commonly asked questions that, once answered, will demystify camera color spaces. “Why do my digital camera files have an sRGB profile?”sRGB is the default color space for most digital cameras today. Most...

Evaluating Histograms

            Review Histograms After Exposure One big advantage of shooting digitally is the ability to view a histogram in the LCD screen on the back of your camera body. A histogram is a graph of the relative distribution of the...

Crop or Retouch ?

As visual communicators, we’re responsible for everything that’s in the frame; we’re also responsible for everything that’s not in the frame. Deciding what’s in the frame and what’s out is a critical decision that can make or break an image. Here are two essential framing...

Interview – NIK Radio

Recently, I spoke with Scott Sheppard on NIK Radio. Scott wanted to talk about how to avoid “Photographic A.D.D.”. He asked, “So what do you do?” I replied, “You have two choices. You can spray and pray. Or, you can look before you leap.”  I...

Start a GroupBook project on Blurb

Start a book project with Blurb BookSmart® and invite others to contribute with GroupBook. Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources. Learn more in my Professional Portfolio workshop.

How to Get the Best Color with Blurb’s PDF to Book

Manage color with Blurb’s PDF to Book workflow. Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources. Learn more in my Professional Portfolio workshop.

Using Adobe® InDesign® to Make a Blurb Book

Use Adobe InDesign® to create compliant PDF files by using the Blurb PDF/X-3 Export Preset and the Blurb Templates. Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources. Learn more in my Professional Portfolio workshop.

Exhibit – Santiago Vanegas

Hagedorn Foundation Gallery presents, “People & Nature” Photographed at the iconic Stone Mountain, Santiago Vanegas produces a body of work unlike anything he’s done before over twelve year long career. In this series, he explores the intriguing and sometimes odd relationship between people & nature....