How Frustration Makes Us More Creative – Tim Hartford @ TED

“Challenges and problems can derail your creative process … or they can make you more creative than ever. In the surprising story behind the best-selling solo piano album of all time, Tim Harford may just convince you of the advantages of having to work with...

5 Ways To Use Abstraction

1 – Simplify 2 – Clarify A Structure 3 – Show A Process   4  – Visualize A Concept 5 – Create A Pattern To one degree or another, every photograph is abstract. At a minimum, photographs are flat rather than three-dimensional. Some photographs are more...

Photographers Celebrate The Power Of The Print

“The industry’s most respected photographers, brought together for the new Print Your Legacy campaign from Epson, talk about what drew them to photography, the inspiration that drives their work and the stories behind their most famous images.” Hear these photographers celebrate the power of the...

The Story Behind Epson's New Legacy Paper – Video

Epson’s new Legacy Papers are the finest papers I’ve ever used. Find out more about Epson Legacy Papers here. Hear what other photographers are saying about them. Use them in my digital printing workshops.

Why I Choose To Print My Legacy With Epson

In this video … I describe what motivates me to make my images. I celebrate the power of prints. And I discuss why I choose to print with Epson printers, inks, and papers. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops. Find out more...

Is It A New Or Updated Edition?

Revelation XLIII Digital technology offers interesting new possibilities for print editions. The appearance of the print may change. It has long been an accepted practice that artists will change the rendition of their images over time. Ansel Adams famously remarked,  “The negative is comparable to...

5 Tools You Can Use To Make The Most Of Shadows & Highlights Without HDR

There are many things you can do in Photoshop to make the most of shadow and highlight detail in images, even if you didn’t bracket exposures for HDR. Curves Curves, the most precise tool for modifying brightness and contrast, allows you to target and adjust...

Extending Dynamic Range With Two Exposures

Two exposures blended Dark exposure Light exposure The layer stack Sometimes Two Exposures Are Optimum There are a variety of ways to extend the dynamic range of a camera. The four classic ways are selective adjustment, double processing a single file, layering two exposures, and...

How Many Exposures Do You Need For HDR ?

1 exposure - scenes like this won't benefit from HDR 3 exposures - scenes like this may be made with 1 exposure but benefit from more 5 exposures - scenes like this require HDR How many exposures do you need for HDR images? It depends....

The Aesthetics Of HDR – Choose Your Preferred Look

image without HDR software processing image with HDR processing in sky only image blending 50% normal and 50% HDR processing image with heavy HDR processing using Photomatix HDR imagery is expanding today’s photographic aesthetics. Identifying the characteristics of contemporary HDR images will help classicists and pioneers alike. The...