Images From Death Valley Workshop

Here are some first pass image selects from my recent Death Valley workshop. They won’t all make the cut, so this may be the only time anyone will ever see some of them. I’m really excited about the material I collected for composites. We had...

Photography's My Favorite Form of Exercise

Photographing. It’s my favorite form of exercise. You walk, climb, squat, bend, reach, stretch and more – much more. You lose track of time and how far you’ve gone. You just keep going. You always want to go farther. It’s exhilarating! At the end of...

Color Is An Event

Color doesn’t exist out there. Color is produced inside us. Color is the human response to vibrations in a narrow part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Color is an event. In any color event you need a light source and an observer – and often an...

Identifying 3 Types of Color

There are essentially three kinds of color. Ideal Ideal color (often thought of as accurate color) is produced when the color of objects is unmodified by temporal or atmospheric effects or enhancement. Forensics and product photographers favor this type of color. Ambient Ambient color is...

Indentifying the 3 Elements of Color

Color has 3 elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation. All colors can be described as some combination of these three values. While we see all three elements simultaneously in a single color, learning to distinguish these three elements from one another is an important perceptual...

Developing Your Sensitivity to Gradation

The engine that drives color dynamics, contrast, is a measure of the difference between colors. Contrast can be measured by both the amount and kind of difference between colors. You can discuss contrast in terms of amount. There can be a lot or a little....

Creating the Illusion of Transparency & Translucency

Transparent colors contain a rich clarity that makes them seem charged with light. Incorporating the effect of transparency into your images can produce a luminous impression, even though (typically) the media your images are reproduced on contains no light While the true effect of transparency...

New Highlight Gallery

I comment twice about one of my top images from Joshua Tree National Park in this new Gallery feature. Explore my Joshua Tree Google map here. Find out about my Joshua Tree workshop here.

PhotoShop World Discount Ends Today

Planning on going to PhotoshopWorld? Haven’t registered yet? Save $100 today. I’ll be presenting two seminars Friday am Photoshop Color Strategies and Illuminating Creativity plus the Art of Digital panel Thursday pm. Check out the complete Class Schedule here.

Lecture Tonight – Colorado Springs

Tonight I present my lectures Illuminating Creativity and Antarctica. Sponsored by Canon, the lecture is free and open to the public. 7-9 pm at the Peak Digital Imaging Society in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colorado Springs Senior Center, 1514 North Hancock